Comuns Sumar has proposed this Wednesday to increase the investment allocated to childhood policies to 2% of Catalonia’s GDP. “The rest of Europe is already doing it and here we are above 1%,” said the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Jéssica Albiach, from Barcelona before a meeting with the table of third sector entities.
“All those who do not talk about and address child poverty do not know what country they live in,” said Albiach after recalling that there are currently 18% of minors at risk of child poverty and 11% already immersed in it.
The measure is part of a “shock plan” against child poverty with more ideas. For example, Comuns Sumar proposes addressing the reform of the guaranteed income of citizenship that “ERC is postponing”, an income of 200 euros per child for families with economic problems, moving towards free dining in schools and two afternoons of extracurricular activities, growing the public social housing stock and aid so that children can be cared for in the field of mental health.
On the other hand, Albiach has reported that he will support the Government in the decree law that includes a credit supplement of 1,850 million euros that is carried out especially to guarantee the functioning of public services and face the salary increase of 2 % to public workers agreed during the mandate of President Pere Aragonès.
Through this credit supplement, the Government hopes to offset part of what was planned in the 2024 budgets, which were not approved with the contrary vote of the common people and led to the calling of elections to the Parliament.
Precisely the table of third sector social entities affected the consequences of the non-approval of the budgets and the electoral call. “We understand the concern of the third sector, but time puts everyone in their place,” Albiach concluded.
