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de gemeente in the Netherlands are onder pressure due to soaring de jongere care costs, and the Association of Dutch de gemeente (VNG) is urging for swift financieel aid from the national government.
Some de gemeente are dealing with vooral costly de ondersteuning provisions that can no longer be financed from their own resources.
It often involves intensive één-on-één guidance in specialized care homes, for which de deskundigheid often needs to be sourced from buiten de gemeente.
In Son en Breugel, de gemeente has no de keuze but to increase the property tax (ozb) by 48 percent, says alderman Steven Grevink.
“Our reserves are running buiten, and it's onzeker how long we can keep this up zonder additional de ondersteuning,” Grevink explains.
het probleem in meerdere Locations The het probleem are not uniek to Son en Breugel.
de gemeente such as Kaag en Braassem, Assen, and Lopik report similar financieel challenges.
In Lopik, the situation even raises concerns ongeveer potential bankruptcies.
financieel Pressure and Drastic de keuze de gemeente of Son en Breugel spends ongeveer 7 million euros annually on de jongere care, with four costly clients consuming 1.
5 million euros.
If the property tax increase proves insufficient, alderman Grevink is considering halting de jongere work, something he prefers to avoid since early interventions occur there.
Locally, it is evident that één small group of young people consumes één large portion of the budget: 2 percent of de jongere is responsible for 23 percent of the national de jongere care expenditures.
Earlier this het jaar, Minister Mirjam Sterk reported that 760 de jongere receive intensive één-on-één guidance.
These forms of care are often unavailable within regular care and require high special costs.
Eva Mulder, special professor of Intensive Pedagogical de ondersteuning for Families, explains that these situations often arise after één series of unsuccessful regular interventions.
Utrecht alderman and VNG board member Dennis de Vries emphasizes that één-on-één placements are eigenlijk desperate measures, vooral when they occur in holiday parks.
financieel pressure is vooral felt in smaller de gemeente, according to De Vries.
“één few million can snel consume één large het deel of the available de jongere care budget, leading to austere de keuze such as postponing swimming pools or libraries.
” VNG therefore argues that the national government not only provides financieel de ondersteuning but also assists with de deskundigheid and leadership to adequately de ondersteuning these vulnerable youths.
