“It is a service that you actually just have to use expand it because there should be a Great House in every neighborhood of this city “so that this reconciliation and parenthood that is talked about so much was real,” said the head of the capital’s opposition, while urging the mayor’s team, which talks so much about “promoting births”, to open more. A pioneering project that seeks to assimilate it with other services already offered by the Madrid City Council,” said Maestre.
Reduction of resources and personnel
“The funds allocated to this project will be reduced, The number of employees providing services in each of these spaces will be reduced from three to one. That is to say, if these fantastic professionals are dismissed, the budget for the care of the babies of this city and the families will be reduced,” said Maestre. On the other hand, Más Madrid has warned that it will defend this public service and the families, who have already collected more than 2,000 signatures, to maintain the service, in addition to demanding that “it be extended to all the districts of Madrid and that these great professionals, who provide a unique service in the city, are not dismissed.”
“We still have time to correct this terrible decision, which will come into effect in December. We demand it from the Family Delegate, Jose Fernandezand also to the district councillors because they must ensure that their neighbours from Tetuán, Carabanchel, Hortaleza or Villa de Vallecas come to “losing a fundamental service”he pointed out.
Smaller branches
The announcement that the Great Houses would be incorporated into the Family care centers (CAF) has not been well received in the progressive formation. “Where we now see a spacious, light, separate place, where families can enter freely and where at least three professionals provide services in each of them, they are going to convert it into a small room, where babies from zero to a maximum of six years old are with a single professional, that is to say: no more than three families using the space at the same time“, he described.
In practice it is a disassembly through the back door. “Since they cannot say 'we are going to close the Casas Grandes', they are going to reduce the staff, the spaces and the services and therefore put an end to this service, which should already be a right,” said the opposition leader. More Madrid“What the Almeida government is doing, despite talking about birth rates and mediation, is limiting the rights of families and also of the boys, girls and babies of Madrid.”
This is ensured from the social space of the municipal government The Casa Grande model “is not going away” and even states that it is strengthening this with the expansion into new neighborhoods, going from four sources where this service is provided (Tetuán, Hortaleza, Carabanchel and Villa de Vallecas) to eight “thanks to its integration into the eight CAF, located in Chamberí, Hortaleza, Usera, Villa de Vallecas, Moratalaz, Tetuán, Latina and Karabanchel”. However, this statement is misleading, precisely because of what Maestre explained.
“The Casas Grandes will benefit from the visibility and increased knowledge that linking with a fully consolidated resource such as the CAF will bring.which this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary. Two models of preventive intervention will coexist in a differentiated way, depending on the needs of each family: on the one hand, the model already used in Casa Grande, focused on universal prevention, community support and emotional attachment, and another service focused on selective interventions. prevention aimed at those families who are struggling”, they argue from the municipal government.
In both cases, The age coverage will vary from 0 to 6 yearswhich will expand that of Casas Grandes, which only has four. “The aim is to support families for longer and to involve siblings of different ages in the process,” states the city council, not without controversy over this decision.
