Social sector professionals urge the government and parliamentary groups to approve a "credit supplement" that will improve the working conditions of their staff and begin the path toward equalizing the salaries of professionals in the field of dependency with those in healthcare. The organizations—from private centers and the third sector—consider the 5% increase approved last December to be "totally insufficient" and therefore propose doubling that amount, reaching 10%. "The sector is saying enough," they affirm.

For at least eight months, the 24 elderly people admitted to the Santlisart residence in Sant Quirze del Vallès were fed with meals that would correspond to eighteen people. From September 2015 to April 2016, there is no record of any payment for breakfast or snacks in the accounts of the nursing home. The centre only spent 4.90 euros on food per person per day, half the average among nursing homes at that time. "It was absolutely insufficient, we considered that we should report it to the Public Prosecutor's Office," said an inspector from the Generalitat in the trial that began this Tuesday in the Court of Barcelona. The sentences to which the four accused are exposed exceed fifty years in prison.