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The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, appeared this morning before the media, accompanied by the councilman of Social Care, Antonio Calderon, to express concern about the snip of 495,556 euros has held the central government in its 2010 budget social programs affecting the City of Cartagena.
The mayor has stated on programs affected by this cut originally have been of assistance to immigrants, development plan of the Roma people, volunteers and care for families in special situations.
This means that at a time when the council difícileseconómicamente Social Care has had to prepare their budgets with nearly half a million euros less, added Barreiro.
The mayor explained that the Ministry of Social Affairs has reduced the host background inmigrantesun 64.8% compared to 2009, ie this year we have 415,430 euros less to serve the immigrant population.
In the last year received 640,956 euros and in 2010 the budget has dropped to 225,525 euros.
To avoid this situation, from the Community and the City Council has had to increase contributions to make viable the immigration program, in particular the City Council has made an additional contribution of 332,400 euros.
The mayor recalled that last year 2009 the social work units attended to over 10,000 users of foreign nationality.
To Barreiro, the Central Government not only drastically reduce social spending items that some directly but was deleted.
Two victims of anti-social policy are the service programs and the development plan gypsy.
In particular the volunteer program and disappeared in the 2009 budget and has not been recovered in 2010 and Roma Development Plan the City has been receiving 9,178 euros this year.
For the program to families in special situations is cutting 44,074 euros.
As he explained the mayor, is a program that serves families dysfunctional.
Cartagena last year 175 cases were handled by a technical team consisting of two social workers, a social psychologist and an educator.
All these programs are financed from central government, Autonomous Region and City of Cartagena.
In the case of families in special situations, some municipalities in the region has had to dismiss these social workers, has said Barreiro.
These drastic cuts made by the Government of Spain a few months ago when proclaiming his ministers would not cut social spending, has forced us to review and reallocate the budget of the Municipal Institute of Social Services for this program so no need for social care serve the population in times of crisis has been undermined, and we succeeded thanks to the support of the Autonomous Community.
Barreiro Some examples are the home help service increases for 2009 a 23.76%, 28.7% telecare or program families in special situations a 22.56% rise.
Faced with this effort made the fall Cartagena Zapatero and his government to again demonstrate that cares little for the municipalities and is not among its priorities to care for people and families suffering from the economic crisis, concluded the Mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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