November 20, 2023.– The expansion of the common portfolio of oral health services in the National Health System, which extends public health coverage to include oral care for girls and boys up to 14 years of age (in two tranches, from 6 to 14 and from 0 to 5 years), benefits a total of 18,168 children in Ávila.
The subdelegate, Fernando Galeano, has highlighted today, World Children’s Day, this and other aid promoted by the Government of Spain for the promotion of the rights and welfare of children. Among them, the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) benefit stands out, reaching 2,575 Aboriginal households where 7,859 people live, of which 3,504 are minors, that is, 44.5% of the total. In addition to the impact of this aid in the fight against child poverty, 1,223 benefits have been granted in Ávila with the Child Aid Supplement (CAPI).
This supplement is an economic benefit of varying amounts depending on the age of the children in charge in the home. The supplement ranges from 115 euros per month for children from zero to three years old, 80.50 euros per month for each child aged between three years and under six years old and 57.50 euros per month for children between 6 and 18 years old.
In addition to the IMV, various measures promoted by the Government have benefited children in vulnerable situations, since the protection of children and families has been a key objective in the design and implementation of these measures.
These include the fight against energy poverty, the temporary suspension of evictions from homes with no alternative to housing, the approval of an ambitious labour reform to reduce temporality or the creation, at the national level, of 65,000 new public places for first-cycle early childhood education and the substantial increase in investment in school scholarships. In this sense, in Ávila, this course 1,417 students of Baccalaureate and Vocational Training have been beneficiaries of scholarships for non-university study.
On the other hand, the Food Aid Plan has also had an impact on children, since it has 3,572 beneficiaries throughout the province, many of them minors who are members of families whose economic situation prevents them from acquiring food on a regular basis. In the province, there are 9.64% of the total number of beneficiaries in Castilla y León.
European Children's Guarantee
The protection of children is part of the lever policies of the Spanish Presidency of the EU, which proposes the achievement of the challenges of the European Children's Guarantee through solutions and measures that have the family base as their axis.
The aim of the European Children’s Guarantee is to ensure that all children and adolescents at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU have access to six basic rights: education and childcare, education and extracurricular activities, at least one healthy meal per school day, health care, adequate housing and healthy eating.
World Children’s Day is celebrated every 20 November, commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), documents that define the rights to health, education, family life and protection from violence and discrimination of young children.