Toni Pérez takes a further step in his policy of cutting public services by privatising sports instructors in schools

The socialist municipal group has denounced a new example of managing public services that the PP Government team has. In this case, it is about the outsourcing of the sports instructors in 14 schools in Benidorm. The socialist spokesperson, Cristina Escoda, has explained that the mayor Toni Pérez has put out to tender the provision of the aforementioned service in the Infant and Primary centres of the town during extracurricular hours, for eight months with the possibility of extending for another eight months, for an estimated value of 234,196 euros.

Escoda has stressed that this situation is one more example of the “disastrous” human resources policy that the Toni Pérez executive has been implementing since he governed Benidorm. “Until now, we were seeing how retirements or vacancies were not covered, but now they are privatising a service for which they had qualified personnel, with great experience, and who had been carrying out their functions magnificently,” she pointed out.

She also criticised the mayor and his team for eliminating and outsourcing departments in these almost ten years of government, handing over to companies the management of municipal services such as design, payroll, urban planning, telephone assistance, Technical Services, and now, unfortunately, sports instructors.

Finally, the socialist leader stressed that the worst thing is that this “destructive human resources policy” that the Popular Party is exercising ends up negatively affecting the quality of the services provided to citizens and, in this case, in the educational centres. “The mayor should dedicate to managing Benidorm and solving the serious problems that the city council has, and stop travelling so much around the province looking for the best photo,” she said.