The Department of Culture provides a more affordable price for families and Equal achieved a European grant to help families in which neither parent can take care of the children during working hours or training period.
The Councillor for Employment and Equality of the City of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra, along with the new Councillor for Culture, Augustine Llamas, this morning visited one of five summer schools will be carried out during the month of July in both the hull three urban districts as a collaboration of two municipal areas and expanding the program as the People's University of Lorca.
Llamas explained that "today are launched two summer schools at People's University, one in Almendricos and another in the new municipal nursery of La Paca, although the registration period remains open until all places. In addition, over the next other days begin in the hamlet of Zarcilla. In total one hundred children under 12 years can benefit from this service. "
Ibarra explained that "although these summer schools have better prices than other private development, through the Directorate General of Social Policy of the Autonomous Region have achieved a subsidy that reduces the cost for those parents who are difficult to reconcile work and family life for work or be formed both for finding employment and have no one to leave their children while after finishing the school year. In this sense, the mayor has indicated that "for the awarding of grants between those who meet the requirements should always take precedence who have less income per household. "However, we must remember that there are other free summer schools promoted by the Red Cross for poor families in Lorca for which the City provides the facilities and opening.
It is therefore to complement existing services, on the one hand with focus on decentralization to be promoted in districts north and south of the town, while on the other it helps people to work for both parents, even temporarily in summer, they need to have your child participate in recreational programs and non-formal education as this.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca