Control and input in the Social Rights Commission for March
March’s session by the Social Rights Commission debated and voted on various proposals from municipal groups relating to measures to make the city more accessible and inclusive, incorporating private centres offering infant education into the city’s municipal nursery school service, condemning and drawing attention to structural institutional violence towards women, the regulation of the display and sale of products derived from cannabis and the creation of a plan to tackle addiction disorders among the young.
Commission for Social Rights, March 2025
Junts per Barcelona urged the municipal government to develop different actions through the Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities (IMPD) to help make the city more accessible and inclusive, where people with disabilities can live more autonomously, with subsidies to improve accessibility in housing, a door-to-door adapted taxi service and adapted ambulances enabling wheelchairs to accompany others.
The proposal was approved, with favourable votes from Junts×BCN, the PSC, BComú, the ERC and the PP, while Vox abstained.
Barcelona en Comú called for immediate approval of the “Regulation on the procedure to integrate private infant education centres into the Barcelona municipal nursery school service”, which was worked on by the IMEB and the different municipal services in the last term of office to be able to apply it immediately at nursery schools meeting the requisites. The proposal was approved with the following votes:
- In favour: PSC, BComú, ERC.
- Abstention: Junts×BCN
- Against: PP, Vox.
The proposal from Esquerra Republicana was to reject and condemn the structural institutional violence of the judicial system suffered by women who denounce gender violence to the courts in our city. The proposal was approved with the following votes:
- In favour: Junts×BCN, PSC, BComú, ERC.
- Against: PP, Vox.
The Partit Popular called for a joint move with the Barcelona Public Health Agency to agree, on the grounds of public health, to explore legal ways of regulating the display and sale of products for the consumption of cannabis-derived substances in non-criminal quantities and to promote awareness campaigns. The proposal was approved with the following votes:
- In favour: Junts×BCN, PSC, BComú, ERC, PP.
- Against: Vox.
Finally, Vox called for a municipal plan on addictive disorders at early ages, strengthening coordination between centres, services and support and prevention services for drug dependency and other addictive disorders and municipal initiatives in this area to carry out programmes and campaigns aimed at reducing the risks and damage linked to these problems among young people. The proposal was rejected with votes as follows.
- In favour: PP, Vox.
- Against: Junts×BCN, PSC, BComú, ERC.
