A day with the emergency team from Barcelona Social Services
CUESB. The Barcelona Social Emergency and Urgent Care Centre provides a permanent response to social emergencies and also complements the work of social services centres handling the most pressing cases.
Fighting unwanted loneliness
Loneliness. The Municipal Strategy against Loneliness 2020-2030 is being presented with the goal of mitigating unwanted loneliness among people in all stages of life, from young children through to young people and the elderly.
Cynthia’s story: support until finding a job
Social Services. The Làbora programme provides support for people in vulnerable situations, helping them find work through guidance, training and labour mediation with companies.
Women’s networking to share resources, with ‘Entre totes, tot’
Social Services. The Numància Social Services Centre, in the Sants neighbourhood, is offering a meeting point for overburdened family women to exchange experiences, decide on joint action and form bonds between them.
‘Let’s go to the allotment’: a community view of local social services
Social Services. Ten users of social services in Guinardó participate at the neighbourhood allotment, where they learn to work the land for self-consumption and form social ties with the local area.
Work starts on a new block of flats with social rents and for the elderly in Trinitat Vella
Housing. Work is due to be completed in the third quarter of 2023.
A report provides a first-ever analysis of household incomes and redistribution measures by the public sector
City Council. Disposable income in the city was 22% higher than the average for Catalonia in 2017.
Return of ‘La Gran Pantalla’, the film festival for the elderly
Elderly people. Free tickets can be booked for the Cinemes Girona and the Filmin platform alike.
155 climate shelters all around the city to beat the heat
Climate emergency. The number of spaces has doubled compared to last year.
Discrimination cases number 436 in the city in 2020
City Council. Racism, xenophobia and LGBTI-phobia are the main causes detected by the Barcelona Discrimination Observatory.
