スペインの社会福祉局は、2009年から2010年にかけて20%増加の800万0000人の援助を受け付ける、国家予算は2010年?の8600万0000ユーロから2012年?の3000万0000ユーロに激減
Los servicios sociales ya atienden a más de ocho millones de personas
Los usuarios de la asistencia pública se incrementaron un 20% de 2009 a 2010
En dos años, el presupuesto para ayudas de emergencia ha caído un 65,4%
'Los ricos, aún más ricos', por GABRIELA CAÑAS
Carmen Morán Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 22:01 CET
Social services and serve more than eight million people
Users of public assistance increased 20% from 2009 to 2010
In two years, the budget for emergency aid has fallen by 65.4%
'The rich, even richer', by GABRIELA RODS
Carmen Morán Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 22:01 CET
The crisis does not stop for the poorest or let up to a few years ago fell under other categories. A local offices of social workers continue to pour thousands of people in need of emergency aid, the basics: pay for water, light, food. Official data managed by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, which has had access to the paper, show that in 2010, the number of clients served in these units exceeded eight million people, 19.5% more than the previous year. Latest figures are unknown, but at this rate of growth and the perception of social workers themselves, the data of 2012 would leave very old these.
The people who come for help are usually higher (one in three), disabled (10%) and families with children (26%) are other profiles, drug abuse, single parents, ex, ethnic minorities. In recent times, people lived modestly also is calling these doors.
"In 25 years I've been a social worker had not seen anything like it," said Maria Jose Arredondas, which plays its work in a rural area of Lugo. What it says is extended to all of Spain. Social workers are overwhelmed. "This year is significantly worse than the last. Immigrants who managed to reunite his family are having a really hard time, because they have no family support or neighborhood, but we are also seeing many young couples with children, in which both have lost their jobs. In my area there are many gypsies, despite its small economy in markets, does not reach them, because they have many children. And every time you have to meet basic needs: water, electricity, food, "he says. "Public social services have never been so overwhelmed and over now with cuts, no resources. This can not be cut, conversely, should increase it ", he claims.
But it seems late. The latest estimates submitted by the Government, far from plugging the wound have cut 40% heading to basic social services, which goes to the municipalities to address, among other things, emergency aid. Taking into account the last two budgets, the game has fallen 65.4%: where there were 86 million and there are only 30, in round numbers.
Workers overloaded
Often we hear complaints of doctors in primary care because they can not treat patients more than a few minutes due to work overload. So for now are overwhelmed social workers, a group was far lower than that of health, but equally spread over the territory. Each village has its social worker (mostly women).
"Now we do not stop, we do not supply. And not only have strengthened human resources, but sometimes people have lost, "laments Arredondas José María, a social worker in Lugo. It occurs in Spain: "We work overwhelmed, I the days of customer service do not get up from the seat or coffee, I'll take it in a thermos," says Arredondas.
These days people get to stop exposing their problems, but then you have to translate all this paperwork in a bureaucracy that sometimes is so slow as to alleviate the situation urgent. In some communities the minimum insertion income, which lend themselves who has nothing, take months to arrive.
These revenues depend on the regions directly, but social workers reported basis and managed many of these cases.
They have also visited the homes of the people, have to evaluate your situation to be incorporated in the records, justify, writing projects. "And we continue with home valuations of Law Unit," explains Arredondas.
Nevertheless, many of the emergency aid in the door just organizations like Caritas, Red Cross and many others. "There you see how the public, rights, is leading to the charity, the charity former" concludes this working.
Given macrocifras are handled daily this may seem minor, but to get an idea of its importance, with 20 million lost in 2013 could be granted almost 75,000 emergency aid.
"With the budget cuts this year there have been problems for emergency aid, which have been at the mercy of the resources that each municipality can provide."
In the 2013 budget by program and purpose, indicated that the planned reduction of 257 126 will impact users cared less. Of these, 31,264 in home care, it is also a matter of basic social services, and 53,963 participants in prevention programs and insertion. This is already happening years ago. Where not reach public services are too depleted to remove third sector organizations, charitable and welfare cut. Caritas announced the other day that had surpassed one million attended, for example.
Both groups squeeze the maximum efforts to offer these people, from training, job placement or enrollment in assistance programs that are no longer local, but European or regional.
Today, one in four Spanish are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 1.7 million Spanish households have all their members unemployed and more than 300 daily evictions in Spain ... "With these data cut budgets most basic social and emergency. That shows a profound insensitivity to the plight of hundreds of thousands of individuals and families and threatens social cohesion, "said the president of the Association of Directors of Social Services and Managers, Jose Manuel Ramirez.
"How to explain that while they live their drama, without state aid, increased consumption of luxury goods, for example? We can not want to have to explain the unexplainable, "says Ramirez. "This is much more than a political issue, it is a human need," ditch.
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