The 63 offices of the SEPE in Castilla y León become Violeta Points of attention to the victims of gender violence

March 4, 2024.- The government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, has this Monday placed the first Violeta Point badge of attention to the victims of male violence of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) in the Community and has done so in the premises of the street of Fray Toribio of Motolinia, in the city of Zamora.

In this way, the SEPE joins, through the implementation of a network of information and attention points, in a “determined way” to the fight against gender violence, “a structural problem that requires a firm commitment from all administrations and from the whole society,” said Sen.

“Today begins a new work plan of the Government Delegation in Castilla y León that is born in line with the development of new public policies that seek the involvement of the whole society in the fight against gender violence and maximum coordination between institutions and agencies,” said the delegate.

An initiative that involves the implementation of a network of 63 Violeta Points in the offices of the SEPE in Castilla y León and that includes the training of 200 service workers by the people responsible for the Violence on Women Units of the different Government Subdelegations.

Through these training sessions, the aim is to provide the necessary tools to turn SEPE workers into agents of information, action, prevention or referral to a case of male violence that comes to their offices. “The objective is to reach the victims’ environments and make the entire population aware of the resources, services and telephones available by the State to care for victims of any form of male violence,” said Sen.

Accompanied by the deputy delegate of the Government in Zamora, Ángel Blanco; the acting provincial director of the SEPE, Asunción Justo; the autonomous coordinator of gender violence, Jéssica Martínez, and the head of the area in Zamora, Marisa Manso, the delegate of the Government has conveyed his gratitude for the personal commitment of the SEPE and the predisposition to attend to the possible victims.

QR CODE

The Violeta Point badge, which will be presented in all the offices of the SEPE of Castilla y León, includes a QR code that allows access to a resource guide of information on how to act in a case of gender violence while making available tools that allow comprehensive attention in the public space.

Initiatives such as this, said Sen, demonstrate that for the Government of Spain the fight against gender violence has become a transversal task of all its management, which involves each and every one of the ministries.”

“With these Violeta Points, a safe place for victims of male violence is created in the offices of the SEPE. Spaces where they can be cared for and supported,” said the government delegate, who has also stressed the need to break the cycle of invisibility and silence that often surrounds violence against women.

ACTIVE INSERTION INCOME

During the presentation, Sen alluded to the Active Income of Insertion (RAI), an aid offered by the SEPE through the Ministry of Labor and which can be accessed by those people in situations of unemployment and who are not entitled to the contributory benefit or the subsidy.

This is a monthly amount of 480 euros that can be accessed, among others, by women victims of gender violence who are unemployed. In this regard, in Castilla y León, of the 4,099 women who represent the active cases in the VioGén system, 1,055 are responsible for this benefit.

By province, Valladolid, León and Burgos, with 220, 198 and 193, respectively, bring together the largest number of beneficiaries, as well as active cases.

VIOLET DOTS

The Violeta Point is an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence and to spread, in a massive way, the information necessary to know how to act in a case of violence against women.

It is part of the catalogue of urgent measures of the Improvement and Modernization Plan promoted by different ministries of the Government of Spain in the context of male chauvinistic alarm in recent months and represents a change of focus in public policies of attention to victims, placing male violence as a structural problem that requires the involvement of the whole of society to put an end to it.

An instrument that has three transversal objectives: to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence, to bring comprehensive services closer to the victims through their environment and to provide information on how to act in a case of male violence to establishments, entities, companies, public bodies.

Through the violet dot, citizens can access different tools that allow integral attention in the public space, in this case, in the offices of the SEPE:

1. Punto Violeta Guide to Dealing with Male Violence: a guide with information on how to deal with a case of male violence in your environment, as well as resources for the victims themselves. It also includes information on what male violence is, its different manifestations, and how to detect it.
2. Materials for establishments, entities, companies, public bodies: posters and stickers with a QR code linked to the Violeta Point Guide to act against Male Violence, which aim to point out that this space is a safe place for victims, where they can receive information and accompaniment if they need it.
3. Badges to identify people involved in the fight against male violence: anyone who uses it will represent a gateway for women victims to the resources they need