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The City of Murcia develops different actions for immediate attention to people at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
This plan is coordinated by the Network for the social inclusion of the City Council, whose constitution was approved by Decree of April 5, 2016 of the Councilor for Social Rights, and corresponding to the Social Services Area its coordination.
The Network is composed of entities representing the third sector related to social integration, in addition to social services technicians, the regional administration and the Municipal Social Services of Murcia and has the following objectives:
1.- Create a stable space and mechanism for reflection and coordination of the actions of the local administration with the most representative entities of the municipality in the care and fight against poverty and social exclusion.
2.- Facilitate joint decision making between social agents and the local administration for the development of actions aimed at social inclusion.
3.- To constitute a space for civil society participation in the design, elaboration, planning, development and evaluation of strategies for addressing poverty and social exclusion in the municipality of Murcia.
4.- Establish a structure that allows analyzing, assessing, discussing and proposing studies, technical reports, creation of work groups or any other action aimed at better knowledge of poverty and social exclusion in the municipality of Murcia.
5.- Set up a space for technical coordination that allows the sharing of knowledge and experiences, the diagnosis of municipal reality, the development of integrated planning, the implementation of common methodologies, the establishment of coordination protocols and procedures, the knowledge and improvement of the existing resources or the proposal of creation of those others that the reality advises and the coordination of the answers in the territory of the municipality of Murcia.
Synthetically, the resources provided by the City of Murcia in the fight against poverty are the following:
- A network of 40 Social Work Units, corresponding to the three Municipal Social Services Centers, which in addition to information and guidance on the different resources and social benefits and their processing, develop various actions and projects aimed at the intervention on poverty of the family of origin, mental health problems, addictions, unemployment, family ruptures, social isolation, convalescence without social or work support, loss of habitual housing, etc., This network is completed with two offices for homeless care and a team of attention to social emergency situations
- A system of social emergency economic assistance that includes various concepts ranging from rent payment (complementary to the rental subsidies managed by the Housing Service), basic food, the purchase of appliances, small repairs at home or Debts of energy consumption.
In 2018, a total of 4,085 grants were processed for an amount of € 3,326,815.
- In 2019, an instruction has been approved regulating the various municipal aids to support the actions aimed at children and adolescents in the municipality, regulating school canteen, dining rooms in the summer months, assistance to families of children who cannot access to dining rooms in summer, support for schooling, extracurricular activities, campsites, etc.
At the time of issuing this report, more than 800 grants have been processed for this concept with an amount exceeding € 500,000.
- Medicines have been managed for people without resources that required pharmacological care for an amount of € 15,000
- Management of the EMUASA Social Fund.
During 2018, 4,485 flat rate contracts of € 5 per month were established on the water bill and the exemption of municipal taxes linked to said billing.
- Transport vouchers: Free public transport vouchers for a total amount of € 52,279 were provided to families who proved they did not have the resources to guarantee their access to the health care they required or for travel related to the search for employment or assistance to actions deformation.
- Basic Insertion Income.
It is requested through municipal social services, although its concession and financial endowment is done by the regional administration.
In 2018, 1,587 applications were processed, raising the number of beneficiary families during that year to 2,100, raising the amount allocated by the IMAS to such benefit in the municipality of Murcia to € 5,909,681.
- Periodic insertion and social protection aids (IMAS).
In 2018 there were 121 beneficiary families, the IMAS allocating a total of 388,534 for this concept to the families of our municipality.
- A total of 830 accreditations of vulnerable consumers were issued, in accordance with the regulatory changes related to the fight against energy poverty, in accordance with the assumptions contemplated therein and the agreements signed with Iberdrola.
- A total of 530 reports of social roots for immigrants that met the requirements for regularization were issued.
Although this measure does not have a direct cost, it represents a significant step in the process of regularization of applicants and their access to employment.
- In coordination with the La Caixa Banking Foundation, the Caixa Proinfancia program against child poverty is managed and coordinated, which in 2018 benefited 2,689 children under 1,598 families for more than 2,000,000 euros.
- Municipal programs are maintained, essentially preventive and aimed at the most vulnerable neighborhoods and districts, of Activities for Children for children from 6 to 12 a and Summer schools, project 13-17, the program for prevention, control and monitoring of Truancy, the school reinforcement project with volunteers and other community intervention projects developed specifically in various neighborhoods and districts.
- The Accompaniment Program for social inclusion, intervened with 191 adults and 101 children from families that required the design of insertion itineraries and professional accompaniment.
- A total of 12 projects for labor insertion and youth guarantee funded by the IMAS in our municipality were assessed and reported, with the corresponding accreditation to the entities that presented them, to which a total of 264 people have been referred to employability programs, 130 to youth guarantee programs and 138 to employment services, all of them through the corresponding accreditation of the municipal social services of their social exclusion situation.
- The Office of Refugee Assistance has attended a total of 241 requests for information on international protection and 70 inquiries from international protection entities.
- For the care of the homeless there is a contract of € 564,000 per year with the Jesus Abandoned Foundation of Murcia to guarantee access to the Reception Center (overnight stays), social canteen and care for the homeless who require social and health care.
In addition to these actions that involve a direct management municipal action, close collaboration is maintained with third sector entities for the execution of intervention projects with individuals or groups that require special attention or the management of specific and complementary resources to those provided by the municipal primary care system, through the granting of nominative grants and the formalization of the corresponding collaboration agreements, in addition to the necessary technical coordination:
- ACCEM (€ 10,000): support for the integration of asylum seekers.
- RASINET Federation (€ 75,000): support in the search for housing and access to housing resources.
- Fundación Secretariado Gitano (€ 73,000): Promotion of the Roma population through access to employment, women's equality and educational promotion.
- Asociación Banco de Alimentos del Segura (€ 20,000): Access to food from the FEGA Funds.
- Jesús Abandonado de Murcia Foundation (€ 75,000): Development of the Housing First project for homeless people with extensive street life.
- RAIS Foundation (€ 80,000): Low requirement night center for homeless people.
- Murcia Acoge (€ 100,000): shelters for convalescent immigrants without social support
- Caritas Diocesan of Murcia (€ 225,000): welcome to immigrant and homeless population
- Neri Association (€ 32,500).
Shelter and breakfast service for homeless people and immigrants.
- Columbares Association (€ 27,500): Reception of women at risk of social exclusion.
- CEPAIM Foundation (€ 48,000): Socio-labor reception and insertion of immigrant population.
- HABITO Association (€ 15,000);
Accompaniment to families from the situations of historical shanty towns in housing relocation processes.
- Emmaus Traperos Association (€ 50,000): Psychotherapeutic care for people at serious risk of social exclusion and promotion of social volunteering.
To conclude this section, it is necessary to add the projects that each year is financed to various social entities through the public call that are aimed at the attention of specific sectors, as in the case of La Huertecica or Red Cross and that are not reflected in this report because they are specific projects whose financing is conditional on the call for each year.
Finally, it should be noted that two studies have been carried out, in collaboration with the Observatory of social exclusion of the University of Murcia on residential exclusion in the municipality of Murcia and has collaborated in a research project funded by the IMAS on risk of poverty and social exclusion in the municipality of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia / Foto: archivo Murcia.com
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