Concilia

Good Practice

Equality, Sustainability

On-demand childcare space to promote work-life balance, particularly for single-parent female families.

Barcelona City Council

Spain

Local policy

POLICY OBJECTIVE

Help users, particularly women, balance work, family and personal life with a service tailored to current childcare needs
Facilitate women’s access to occupational training and the labour market
Help users move up in, and maintain, employment
Promote well-being within family units
Provide women with personal time enabling them to fully participate in their community and strengthen their active role in society
Give families a breathing space
Provide quality leisure opportunities for the children

CONTEXT

Concilia, part of the COVID-19 Social Reaction Plan, was launched in 2020 as a way to provide relief to at-risk families with children at home and lacking time for basic tasks such as housekeeping, work and going to necessary appointments (doctor, job interviews, etc.). It also sought to create breathing time, especially for women lacking networks of support.

POLICY DESCRIPTION

Concilia offers childcare for one- to twelve-year-olds in nine Barcelona locations in the neighbourhoods of the Neighbourhood Plan. It opens outside school hours every day from Monday to Saturday (week-day afternoons and all day Saturday). Potential users can book the service online 48 hours in advance, or on site. Families need only register on the app once, providing all the required legal documentation, after which they can request the service as many times as they wish. The Concilia team confirms or rejects each petition by phone. Priority is given to single-parent female families, gender violence survivors, or families without a community network that can support them.

KEY ASPECTS

Some slots are reserved for urgent cases and can be booked 15 minutes before the service starts
By law, service for one- to three-year-olds must take place in a nursery
Families can bring their child to the centre, or arrangements can be made for children to be picked up at school
Coordination with other services and entities in each neighbourhood, and presence of special needs educators staffing the service.

RESULTS

7,819 provisions of childcare
From October 2020 – June 2021, 648 families used the service, of which 299 were single-parent female families and 90% of foreign origin

Policy's Website

Nuria

Borrut Valdivias

Coordinator of Employment and Economic Activity. Neighbourhood Strategy Depaartment, Foment de Ciutat, S.A.

pactedeltemps@bcn.cat

Good Practice

Concilia

Barcelona City Council

POLICY OBJECTIVE

CONTEXT

POLICY DESCRIPTION

KEY ASPECTS

RESULTS

Policy's Website

Nuria

Borrut Valdivias

Coordinator of Employment and Economic Activity. Neighbourhood Strategy Depaartment, Foment de Ciutat, S.A.

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