SERV concerned over the room for flexibility of the Flemish government on the implementation of VSB ( Flemish Social Protection)

SERV is concerned about the room of freedom the Flemish government takes in setting up the legal framework for the Flemish Social Protection. The broad room for manoeuvre makes it possible for the government to fix in separate decision procedures important topics such as concrete definitions, methods of application, criteria for approval and the amounts in the social care insurance, the benefit for helping aging persons or the basis support budget. The draft decree remains therefore unclear about the adjustments and the broader vision of the government. SERV is concerned about the impact in terms of legal security of people with care needs. Hence SERV is urging the government to submit the further implementation of the decree to the multipartite committee Welfare, Health & Family Policy, to the Strategic Advisory Council for Welfare, Health & Family Policy and to SERV.