The four offices of the Public Service of State Employment in Soria become Violeta Points of attention to the victims of male violence

• SEPE personnel will receive training as agents of information, action, prevention or referral in a case of male violence through the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Subdelegation

May 16, 2024. The subdelegate of the Government in Soria, Miguel Latorre, has today placed the first Violeta Point badge of attention to the victims of male violence of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) in the province and has done so in the headquarters of the Provincial Directorate of the agency located in Santa Teresa de Jesús Street, 9 of the Soriana capital. In addition, in the province there are three other offices: another in the city of Soria to which we must add those of Almazán and El Burgo de Osma.

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 male violence, “a structural problem that requires a firm commitment from all administrations and from the whole society,” said Latorre.

“It is a new work plan of the Subdelegation of the Government in Soria that is born in line with the development of new public policies that seek the involvement of the whole society in the fight against male violence and maximum coordination between institutions and agencies.”

An initiative that involves the implementation of a network of four Violeta Points in the offices of the SEPE in Soria and that includes the training of a fortnight of service workers by the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Subdelegation.

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 violence against women,” said Latorre.

Accompanied by the provincial director of the SEPE, Araceli Conde, and the head of the Unit against Violence against Women, María Teresa Lerma, the subdelegate of the Government has conveyed his gratitude for the personal commitment of the SEPE and the willingness to attend to the possible victims.

QR CODE

The Punto Violeta badge, which will be presented in all the offices of the SEPE of Soria, includes a QR code that allows access to a resource guide of information on how to act in a case of male violence while making available tools that allow integral attention in the public space.

“Initiatives such as this one,” said Latorre, “demonstrate that for the Spanish Government the fight against violence against women has become a cross-cutting 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 SEPE premises. Spaces where they can be cared for and supported. According to the deputy delegate, “we are moving in the direction of breaking with the circle of invisibility and silence that often surrounds violence against women.

ACTIVE INSERTION INCOME

During the presentation, Latorre referred to the Active Income of Insertion (RAI), an aid offered by the SEPE through the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy to which those who are unemployed and who are not entitled to the contributory benefit or the subsidy can access.

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 sense, in Soria, of the 186 women who represent the active cases in the Viogén system, 41 are beneficiaries of this benefit.

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 violence against women to establishments, entities, companies, public agencies.

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:

Violeta Point 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.

Materials for establishments, entities, companies, public agencies: posters and stickers with a QR code linked to the Violeta Point Guide to Action 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.

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.