Benidorm will require the Ministry to pay all grants for dining awarded to students of the city

Benidorm City Council is going to require the Ministry of Education to "immediately pay the families, regardless of type, all the amounts that correspond to them for being beneficiaries of the money granted for the 2019 course / 2020 ”. This is reflected in a motion signed by the spokespersons of the local government, Lourdes Caselles and Mónica Gómez, which this Wednesday will be ruled in the Informative Commission on the Internal Regime and will be approved next Monday, April 27, in plenary session.

As the motion points out, after decreeing the suspension of the face-to-face teaching activity from March 16, the Ministry launched a system of care for families benefiting of the grants for dining through de purchase vouchers ’. However, the Ministry "has limited itself to serving only students with aid type A and that of the 29 special education centers of the Valencian Community", thus excluding "the vast majority of students benefiting from the same regional call that it has granted types B, C, D, E and F ”. Grants that translates into amounts ranging from 2 to 4 euros per day depending on the type.

The mayor, Toni Pérez, recalled that in view of this limited attention by the Ministry, "from the City Council we launched the free municipal program 'Menjadors a casa' with the primary objective of guaranteeing the food resources of the minor beneficiaries of scholarships type B, C, D, E and F, and with which we are currently serving a thousand students in Benidorm whose families are periodically delivered elaborate menus that, refrigerated, can be consumed for a space of up to 20 days". In fact, tomorrow Wednesday begins the third installment of ‘Menjadors a casa’ at the points enabled by the City Council.

Pérez has indicated that "with the request that we are forwarding to the Ministry, we intend that all the students benefiting of grants for dining, regardless of whether they are type A or F, have the corresponding amounts of aid, because it was their own administration of the Regional Government which recognized their right to receive this financial aid in a process of public and open competition. " "We want the money committed by the Ministry to reach families regardless of whether the City Council in the end continues with the free municipal plan for families‘ Menjadors home, "he stressed.

The mayor has delved into the fact that "we are only requiring the Ministry to comply with its powers and obligations, attending to all the families benefiting from the dining scholarships during this course in Benidorm and by extension the rest of the Valencian Community" .

Likewise, he has once again asked the Minister of Education, Vicent Marzá, to "resolve as soon as possible the incidents detected in Benidorm in the sending of" purchase vouchers "for the beneficiaries of type A scholarships." A request that Toni Pérez already sent to the conseller in writing almost two weeks ago.

Third installment of ‘Menjadors a casa’ program

This Wednesday the City Council begins the third installment of the ‘Menjadors a casa’ program. As in previous installments, the families of these minors will receive gluten-free menus consisting of first courses, main courses, fruit and dairy. On this occasion, menus will be distributed to each family for 7 days, although once refrigerated they can be consumed within a period of up to 20 days.

The mayor has reported that, as it has been communicated to the beneficiary families, the delivery will start from 09.30 at the points enabled by the City Council in all the neighborhoods of Benidorm and that are located in Casa del Fester, José Llorca Linares social center, Les Caletes Municipal Children's School and CEIP El Murtal, Ausiàs March and Els Tolls.