Carta Social

The Government will launch several warnings under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) for nurseries, home support and social radar, announced the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, at a session to sign PARES 3.0 contracts in Guarda.

The Ministry services are preparing to launch a new warning on the extension of crèches, so that “children have equal opportunities, regardless of “the environment and economic conditions in which they are born”. The warning will be ‘focused primarily on projects for retrofitting existing spaces’, ‘instead of multiplying new construction’ by using ‘e.g. pre-school facilities that are not being used’.

A warning will be launched from the RRP for new responses to combat isolation and another for Home Support 4.0.

Home Support 4.0 aims to "increasingly qualify home support with digital and technological resources, seeking to better respond to people". It will also "launch a warning dedicated to the Social Radar", a program to create teams to identify and monitor people who are in the most vulnerable situation, whether elderly people or people with disabilities, in order to find personalized and appropriate responses to each situation.

A team will be created by each municipality "to signal people who are in a situation of isolation and integration and monitoring in the network," he said.

PARES

The Minister presided over the signing of contracts for the Social Equipment Network Extension Programme 3.0, whose tender had 371 applications approved and covers 658 social responses, with a total investment of 393 million euros.

In the district of Guarda, PARES 3.0 supports 24 applications for 40 social responses, with a total investment of 23.5 million euros.

Ana Mendes Godinho also travels to Castelo Branco and Portalegre, where she signs identical contracts worth 19.6 million euros and 14 applications (Castelo Branco) and 5.3 million euros and eight applications (Portalegre).