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| In the last 2 years, the City Council has opened 9 new Social Care units | The City Council has launched a new Social Care unit in Zarandona to strengthen care for vulnerable families in the district, due to the health crisis.

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the councilor for Pedanías and Barrios, Marco Antonio Fernández, visited this new unit this morning, which is added to the 40 distributed throughout the municipality.It should be noted that, in the last 2 years, the Consistory has opened 9 new Social Care units in neighborhoods and districts.

This new center has a permanent social worker and the support of two social educators.“The second wave of this health crisis is giving way to a complicated social crisis.

For this reason, we are expanding the social network of the Murcia City Council, with more means and resources that allow us to intensify the attention and assistance work, "said José Ballesta, who added that" this new Social Care unit in the North area It will cover the residents of Zarandona, in addition to the 40 units distributed throughout the municipality.From the new unit, in addition to the Social Care program, the Socio-educational Care, Psychological Care and Legal Care programs, Care for People in a Dependency Situation, Care for cases of Child Unprotection (EDI), Community Care and Attention to Children and Adolescents.More than 48,000 cases throughout 2020Until September, Social Services has attended 48,194 cases by appointment, by phone, exceeding in more than 8,100 the cases attended with respect to the entire year 2019, when 40,063 were registered.

Specifically, in the district of Zarandona, from January to September 2020, there have been 568 cases attended to - when in 2019 377 were attended throughout the year.3.4 million euros in aid for vulnerable families since the start of the pandemicThe City Council has made more than 3.4 million euros in aid for vulnerable families since the start of the pandemic.

In this sense, a total of 3,513 families have already benefited from municipal financial aid for the care of social emergencies (a total of 2,050 municipal financial aid has already been paid), and from emergency financial aid to meet the derived needs of COVID-19 (a total of 1,463 have been effective).Facilities of the City Council social networkThe municipal staff of Social Services develops its work in the different facilities that make up the social network of the Murcia City Council:· 3 Municipal Social Services Centers.· 40 Social Work Units.· 3 Community Action Centers.· 3 Cyber ??classrooms.· 1 Comprehensive center for childhood and reconciliation of work and family life.· 3 Day Stay Centers.· 76 Social Centers for the Elderly.· 76 Centers for Women.· 4 reception resources for women in situations of gender violence.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia