Best Practices

1. Name of the practice

Family Help

2. City

PERUGIA (ITALY)

3. Years in operation

2018 –

4. Objectives

Balance between life and work time.

5. Description - overwiew

Vouchers to pay family cooperators.

The intervention serves to address the difficulties related to the reconciliation of life and work times, to combine the right to work with the right to family care and to reduce gender inequality, creating the necessary conditions for greater participation and / o permanence of women on the labor market.

The maximum grant payable is 2,000 euros and must be used to cover – for at least the same amount – the costs incurred for the remuneration of flexible supplementary services / services, by a home-based provider, which can be acquired in compliance with the relevant legislation work such as, by way of example but not limited to, support activities for children and young people including accompaniment to school or extracurricular activities or help in carrying out school tasks, and support activities for the performance of domestic activities and various daily needs, accompanying people (such as minors, adults and elderly people in difficulty).

Specialized services of any kind in the educational, social and health fields are excluded.

More information: https://www.comune.perugia.it/pagine/family-help

6. Field of application

Economic support.

7. Target

Worker with dependent family members.

8. Budget

28.800 EUR

9 Evaluation - impact - outcomes

The intervention has reached 74 families.