Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for 2012-2015

104 Quality of Life, Equality and Sport Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for 2012-2015 Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for 2012- 2015 Annexes Part III 1. DRAFTING PROCESS 1.1. 1.2. Starting point First draft The Plenary session of Barcelona City Following adoption of the resolution, an Council adopted the resolution on the editorial team was formed in the Area Social Inclusion Plan for 2012-2015 in of Quality of Life, Equality and Sport, October 2011. This Plan is the second which set about its tasks using the mo- of its kind and continues the work of nitoring reports for the 2005-2010 Plan previous governments with the Muni- and suggesting that a diagnosis be cipal Social Inclusion Plan for 2005- made of the current state of affairs in 2010. the city with regard to inclusion. The methodology used to prepare the first draft was that proposed in the Guide to Social Inclusion Plans of the Provincial Council of Barcelona (2008), which contains a comprehensive set of indicators to take into account in 105 the study of the subject and a concise Quality of Life, and specific working process. The draft Equality and Sport was prepared in coordination with the Plan for Social City Council's Social Observatory and Inclusion of Barcelona the Research and Knowledge team of 2012-2015 the Area of Quality of Life, Equality and Sport. It followed the order of the indicators as listed in the Guide and set December 2011 as the time to take a snapshot of the state of affairs of social inclusion in the city. The result of all this was a preliminary document, the Barcelona Social In- clusion Plan for 2012-2015. This basic working document, dated 13 January 2012, consisted of a diagnosis structu- red around eight broad future challen- ges for social inclusion policy, which included housing and employment, both driving forces of inclusion and social cohesion. The text defines ten guiding principles and includes a chapter on Vision 2015. It sets out how the future of Barcelona should be with regard to inclusion and social cohesion. 1.3. Participatory process with civil society and citizens Between January and May, the docu- Active Barcelona, an umbrella group for ment was the object of a participatory more than 470 organisations. During process with social organisations and these working sessions, shortcomings citizens in general, with inputs from the were pointed out but, most impor- following agents: the Municipal Social tantly, the more controversial points Welfare Council and its working groups, of the drafting of the inclusion policy the Citizen Agreement for an Inclusive were debated. This resulted in a com- Barcelona and its action networks, and mon vision and united approach based civil society and citizens. The purpose on consensus. A total of 378 people of this process was to add value to the took part in the 10-plus sessions with document and transform it into a city the Citizen Agreement. programme directed at all agents working on social inclusion in the city. Following the consultation process with the Citizen Agreement, more than 106 The document was discussed by the 500 new inputs were incorporated into new action networks and the Governing the Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for Quality of Life, Equality and Sport Council of the Citizen Agreement for an 2012-2015. Basic working document. Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for 2012-2015 No. Date Participants Agre- ement meetings Council Resolution 1 28/02/2012 28 Network contacts panel 1 17/01/2012 13 Care for the Homeless Network 2 09/02/12 16/02/12 40 Network of Open Centres for the Care of Children 2 19/01/12 13/02/12 45 and Adolescents Family Carers Support Network 1 10/02/2012 13 Culture for Social Inclusion Network 1 21/02/2012 16 Social Inclusion Housing Network 1 06/02/2012 20 Children's Rights Network 1 14/02/2012 13 Subtotal action networks and Governing Council - - 188 Citizen Agreement Annual Conference 1 16/03/2012 190 TOTAL 11 - 378 The Plan was also discussed by eight points. More than eight sessions were working groups of the Municipal Social held and it was also discussed by the Welfare Council, which introduced new Standing Committee (6 March 2012). points of view and further opinions. The plurality of voices on the Municipal In all, more than 107 people from social Social Welfare Council, which groups organisations, institutions and profes- more than 150 agencies and insti- sional associations debated the docu- tutions, led to the need for a careful ment, giving rise to over 100 contribu- reworking of the text, which was then tions. discussed repeatedly down to the finer No. Date Participants Welfare Council meetings Children 1 17/01/2012 2 Poverty 1 08/02/2012 4 Women 1 29/02/2012 5 Community action 1 26/01/2012 1 Drug addiction 1 13/02/2012 6 Families 1 13/02/2012 2 Health - - - Senior citizens - - - Welfare Council Standing Committee 1 06/03/2012 7 TOTAL 6 - 107 107 Through the consultation process and The participation of the social asso- Quality of Life, under the Citizen Agreement for an In- ciations was completed by the invol- Equality and Sport clusive Barcelona, a consensus was vement of citizens and professionals Plan for Social Inclusion of Barcelona reached that allowed for the formula- from the local authorities. A plan for 2012-2015 tion of a Joint Strategy. At the Annual the city had to include the voice of the Conference of the Citizen Agreement people, which is why two focus groups (16 March 2012), the Agreement pre- were set up, with a total of 33 partici- sented its statement "Barcelona uni- pants. tes to tackle the social crisis", to make known its commitment to formulating The process also took into account the a Joint City Strategy with all organi- 800-plus contributions from civil so- sations in the Agreement in order to ciety and citizens directed at the Area address the social aspects of the crisis of Quality of Life, Equality and Sport together. during the Municipal Action Plan consultation process. Lastly, approxima- In so doing, social associations expres- tely 200 contributions from various sed their desire to participate in the municipal teams working on social in- city's inclusion policy and indicated clusion were also considered. their commitment to greater involve- ment in the issue. Works- Date Participants hops Focus group on an Open Centre 1 23/02/2012 16 Focus group with young people 1 20/03/2012 17 TOTAL - - 33 1.4. 1.5. Second draft Negotiations with municipal groups of Barcelona City Council Following the consultation process At the end of the participatory process, with civil society and citizens, the ac- with a Plan that now had five strate- tion plan of the basic working docu- gic lines, the document passed to the ment was redrafted. This task involved debating stage. During the latter, all outlining the objectives and actions groups prepared reports and made for each strategic line. The outlining comments and amendments, which of the objectives and actions began eventually totalled more than 140 pro- with their alignment with discussions posals. Following on from this process, on the Municipal Action Plan, whereby an additional chapter on citywide im- the proposals of the Municipal Action plementation and one with tools and Plan were considered and reviewed by instruments for building a cohesive city the relevant areas and stakeholders. were added to the Plan. The five strategic lines were also reduced to four. By 31 May, the new version, the So- 108 cial Inclusion Plan for 2012-2015 of 31 May 2012, was ready. This text was Quality of Life, Equality and Sport substantially different to the previous one since it included a new chapter Barcelona Social Inclusion Plan for outlining the strategic lines, objec- 2012-2015 tives and actions. In addition, a new strategic line agreed with social associations and citizens as part of the Joint Strategy was also incorporated into this version. This emphasised the commitment to make the Plan an ins- trument for the entire city. 2. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICY Barcelona City Council organises its Directorate of Family and Social Servi- management into various sectoral ma- ces: manages the services provided in nagement areas and public agencies. relation to family and social services. The Area of Quality of Life, Equality For example, it manages care services and Sport is one of these management for the homeless, services for children areas. The general organisation of the and the elderly and care in social emer- City Council is set out below, followed by gencies, among others. This Directora- that of the Area of Quality of Life, Equa- te sets the goals to be reached and the lity and Sport, accompanied by a short required standards of care, the optimal description of the different agencies. level of production, and the professio- nal ratio. Its functions include: The Area is subdivided into two broad management units: executive mana- » Ensuring ongoing technical support to gement and strategic management. It the deployed management teams. also has three municipal institutes that » Establishing and leading regular and 109 are independently managed agencies stable systems (in situ and distance) Quality of Life, but which are linked to the Area of Qua- for the coordination and control of the Equality and Sport lity of Life, Equality and Sport. These production of services, the transfer of Plan for Social are the Municipal Institute for People information and general criteria on the Inclusion of Barcelona with Disabilities, the Municipal Social city, and the transfer of reports and the 2012-2015 Services Institute and the Barcelona necessary knowledge to improve the Sports Institute.

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