Benidorm will give schools 155,000 euros for social, educational and improvement actions

In the coming weeks, Benidorm City Council will pay 155,000 euros to schools supported by public funds to finance educational and improvement actions in the facilities. The Local Government Board (JGL) has approved today the payments of these Municipal Cooperation Credits with which "year after year the Department of Education contributes to the expenses of 20 local educational centres of 2nd Cycle of Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary Education and the Adult Education Centre,” reported the councillor of the area, Maite Moreno.

Specifically, these Municipal Cooperation Credits reach the 13 public schools, the subsidized centre, the five secondary schools and the Adult Educational Centre.

Among the actions that are financed by these credits are “the educational and cultural activities carried out by each centre such as outings, extracurricular training and school exchanges; and also projects focused on responding to the socioeconomic needs of families in the school environment, such as individual lunch assistance or school outings.”

Also included are “maintenance expenses for the facilities and the transfer of students to the Children's Traffic Park where the Local Police teaches the little ones the basic rules of traffic, signage or the different types of vehicles.”

The person in charge of Education explained that "the distribution of these funds is  equitably based on criteria such as the school population of each centre and the sociocultural work they carry out." Likewise, she has stressed that "it is each centre that decides on what activities, projects or improvements the assigned resources are spent."

Moreno has stressed that "with these Cooperation Credits we support local education, the centres and, by extension, the families since these funds contribute to developing activities that complement the school curricula of the students, that improve the facilities and infrastructure of the centres, and also that help families.”

These complement the City Council's annual investments to improve educational centres.