In boosting the funding of the Creative Employment Centers of Children and People with Disabilities (KDAP/KDAP-AEA) with an increase in budget by 18m euros, but also to the expansion of the beneficiaries, the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family, Sofia Zacharakis, responding to House in a timely question of the KKE for the CDP/CDPS of people with disabilities, stressing that it is in The payment of the next installment of € 14 million for public nurseries and the CDAP/CDP-Atoma with disabilities is evolved.

As Minister Sofia Zacharakis pointed out, “Government policy has as its primary goal to ensure the access of children and people with disabilities in quality creative employment services, providing families with real support through a stable and ever -evolving context to the standards. of Child Guarantee. The funding of the Voucher program is increasing every year. For 2024-2025 the total budget is EUR 379.2 million, significantly increased compared to the previous year’s 341.2 million. Extra funding approved in August 2024, of 18 million euros, has allowed us to cover almost 5,000 additional infants and toddlers, to integrate 1,336 people with disabilities over 22 years in the CDPs with disabilities and create an additional 106 seats in Standard development CDP. For the school period 2024-2025, 173,363 vouchers have been made available, of which 57,103 relate to KDAP and 11,679 are addressed to the CDP of people with disabilities.

It is noteworthy that vouchers for children with disabilities have more than doubled compared to 2019. If you consider that 2019-20 there were only 4,419 Vouchers for the CDPS and this year is 11,679, you will perceive the sensitivity and concern we pay for the fixed Strengthening the program. “

Regarding the payments for all categories of the program, but also for the public structures of the CDPs with disabilities, Minister Sofia Zacharakis clarified that the payments are continuing normally for public disabled people. “According to the current JMD” he stressed, “the credits from the Ministry’s regular budget are transferred in part. The first installment decision of € 28 million was already issued in November, and the next installment of EUR 14 million will be paid in the coming days, based on the data transmitted by EETAA. For public CDPs with disabilities, the amounts available from 2022-23 are always increasing! Of the 7,400,000 in 2022, 7,692,000 were given last year and more than 8 million euros have been budgeted this year. It is noteworthy that in the public CDPS people with disabilities, staff from 2019-20 have increased by 8.4%. “

Concluding, Sofia Zacharakis underlined that “the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family will ensure the continuity and viability of the program. We are in collaboration with the NSRF Management Authority to ensure the financing of all CDPS and CDPS people with disabilities. This of course also includes public structures. “

KKE MP Manolis Sydhakis called on the government to take steps to continue operating in modern terms the public municipal structures of KDAP and KDAP-MEA with the required state funding, logistical infrastructure, housing and all the necessary permanent staff. He also called on the Government to take steps both to fix all contractors, but also to prevent the responsibility of operating the structures to the underfunded Municipalities “or worse to the reciprocal fees of the citizens”.