Yesterday in Valencia, the Commission for Interadministrative Cooperation of the Comunidad Valenciana was launched, a body which serves as an instrument of coordination between the various public administrations with powers or responsibilities in the field of social services and is attached to the Department for Equality and Inclusive Policies.
Noelia Císcar, Calp's Councillor for Social Inclusion, Equality and the Family, attended the meeting as she is part of the body proposed by the FVMP to represent municipalities with between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants throughout the Valencian Community.
This body, which is the result of the law on inclusive social services, will serve to define the guidelines to be followed in the field of primary care and will also enable the structuring of social services throughout the Valencian territory.
One of the first issues to be addressed by the Inter-administrative Coordination and Cooperation Body for Social Services is the implementation of the programme of contracts which will ensure the stability of the resources allocated by the Council to the municipalities to strengthen the municipal social teams. This is a multiannual agreement with the municipal councils to provide stability to the Valencian public system of social services. The contract programme covers all the social services provided by the municipal council in the basic and specialised basic services, with a grant of over €900,000 from the municipal council.
Another aspect to be dealt with by this coordinating body is the social services needs map, which will serve as a basis for drawing up the infrastructure plan, which will include the social services institutions to be implemented in the coming years. In this context, Calp hopes that a centre for TAPIS and the family support and recovery unit for Alzheimer's patients in the community will be involved. At the same time it will propose a regional residence for people with functional diversity or mental illness.
On the other hand, the Coordination Unit also has the task of formulating proposals for the operation and improvement of the quality of the Valencian public social services system and to act as a means of participating in its design and planning.
Another task of this body is to facilitate the exchange of information between public administrations, particularly with regard to the resources allocated to social services. It is also responsible for preparing the mandatory reports on the strategic plan for social services, the service portfolio and the infrastructure plan.