The Totana City Council has awarded 92 dining room scholarships for an amount of 87.04 euros per student to guarantee the basic right to food for schoolchildren in vulnerable situations affected by the closure of educational centers, which amounts to 5, 12 euros per minor and business day.This aid to families is granted by virtue of Royal Decree-Law 7/2020, of March 12, by which urgent measures were adopted to respond to the economic impact of COVID-19, which in Chapter II referred to the basic right of school feeding.This direct granting of subsidies was granted last week by the Government of Spain to municipalities to guarantee this basic right for the closure of educational centers for the period of the first 17 business days affected by the temporary suspension of educational activity.
face-to-face.This aid is granted during this period of time without prejudice to the fact that it may be increased later if the circumstances giving rise to it arise.The total number of students referred by the educational centers, after having maintained various contacts with them and with the beneficiary families, amounts to 90; whose figure must be added two more schoolchildren who are currently being awarded a scholarship directly by the Totanero City Council.The award of the amount that each child was entitled to as scholarships for the dining room is direct to their families, in such a way that the intervention department has released the total figure of 8,007, 68 euros.The management of these measures is being carried out by the Primary Care Social Services in coordination with the schools of Early Childhood, Primary and ESO, which are the beneficiaries.The Totana City Council has received 130,729 euros from the Government of Spain, as aid to cover social needs caused by the coronavirus health crisis in this municipality.
This amount is basically intended to speed up the granting of urgently needed aid; to expand coverage of basic care, support, security and food for a number of elderly, disabled or dependent people.The Government of Spain has distributed 9,284,806 million euros among the municipalities of the Region of Murcia to cover the social needs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which represents 3.097% of the total of 300,000 euros generated from extraordinary credits For this end.
