María José Belda, counselor and spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias, considers it “fundamental” to reinforce the function of the Insular Council for Minors to guarantee “effective compliance with the Insular Plan for Childhood and Adolescence.”
The Sí Podemos Canarias group in the Island Council of Tenerife has achieved, during the last plenary session of the debate on the state of the Island, the support of all the political forces present in the corporation for the approval of its proposal to fight against child poverty. María José Belda, advisor and spokesperson for Sí Podemos Canarias in the institution, declares that this decision “will represent an important boost to the real and effective fulfillment of the objectives of the Tenerife Island Plan for Childhood and Adolescence 2018 – 2021.”
Belda highlights that it has been agreed to "strengthen the function of the Insular Council of Minors as a consultative and citizen participation body, in view of the importance of the matters in which it intervenes and the objectives of the Tenerife Childhood and Adolescence Plan." The counselor of Sí Podemos Canarias affirms that this body “is fundamental for the development of policies regarding social action and must be valued, for the sake of the effectiveness of its work of advice, participation and co-responsibility in all issues related to Social Welfare and the quality of life of minors.”
María José Belda has described as “insufficient” the fulfillment so far of the objectives contemplated in the Island Plan for Childhood and Adolescence, which is why Sí Podemos Canarias has also agreed that “to guarantee its effectiveness, a verification will be carried out of all the actions carried out so far by the Cabildo of Tenerife in the execution of measures related to minors, to check whether they comply with the aforementioned island plan.”
To this end, it has been approved that at least one evaluation report is required which, subsequently, “will be sent to the Insular Council of the Menor Islands for its evaluation, addressing the modification of the regulations of its operation if this proves necessary.”
