The autonomous communities had until Monday to send to the government, among other data, the number of unaccompanied foreign minors who host, a key step to specify the number of migrant children and adolescents who will correspond to each one of them from the Canary Islands and Ceuta after the approval of the foreigner law. Overcome the deadline, all autonomies except Aragon have responded to the request for information, although some of the regional governments, such as Madrid, have sent data other than those required, which hinders the task of applying the distribution criteria on a reliable radiography of the reception systems, as confirmed on Tuesday the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego.
“We have received data until last yesterday and the technical services are screening data. Most of the communities have transmitted the information reliably with the marked requirements,” said Rego. However, other regional governments have not answered or have not done so in the necessary terms to calculate the distribution: “Some community has not sent concrete data but has made a general interpretation, which makes it difficult to calculate the global figure as it was arranged in the Royal Decree.”
The Ministry sent two regional governments two weeks ago a requirement in which it requested at least four specific data: places enabled in the minors reception system (whether foreigners or not), occupied places, total number of minors welcomed (migrants or not) and number of unaccompanied foreign minors welcomed, as confirmed by sources of childhood to Eldiairo.es. But while some have responded with the information broken down as requested, or even with a higher level of detail, other autonomies have partially done it.
Beyond the silence of Aragon, among the regional governments that have presented incomplete or different data to those requested is the Community of Madrid, as highlighted. The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso has not answered any of these four categories of data, not even the most basic: the number of foreign children and adolescents that currently hosts (as if they have done the majority) but has limited themselves to contributing the total number of migrant children and adolescents served at some point last year and to contribute the percentage of “overexpation.”
As confirmed by Eldiario.es, the Community of Madrid has notified the Ministry that its reception system attended in all 2024 to 2,442 members accompanied by foreign minors, but that was not the fact that the government requested. “If we talk about the hospital system, we have requested busy beds. But the data given by the Community of Madrid would not be that, but that of all the people who have made use in external consultations and in occupied beds. We ask for the number migrant children that have a reception place,” exemplifies a record with a simile.
Although it is the only community mentioned by the head of childhood, the minister confirms that there are more regional governments that have responded asymmetrically, although she has not specified which. The consultations made by Eldiario.es to the different regional governments point to great disparity in the presentation of these data. For example, while managing only mention the number of places enabled for unaccompanied foreign minors, others provide the total structural places of their reception system, whether immigrants or not. In other cases, communities have not detailed the specific figure of occupied places, but present a difficult percentage to verify, etc. However, most do provide the number of migrant children and adolescents currently housed by their administration.
To try to organize such a swarm, the ministry has given “a few days” to clarify details of the information presented with the autonomous communities to then prepare a proposal. “The majority has given us the data, but if we do not all, it is difficult to dimension the system of the system,” Rego stressed.
However, the refusal of some communities to facilitate the required information will not carry the paralysis of the distribution process. In case of lack of verified data by some autonomy, the reform of the Foreigners Law establishes a ‘Plan B’: Use the latest “contrasted” data available to the Government, which correspond to a report prepared by the Ministry of Childhood in 2023.
All this long process of data collection and verification prior to the activation of transfers is due to the fact that the central government does not have an updated figure of unaccompanied foreign minors in Spain, given that the registration of unaccompanied foreign minors, the only existing system at the state level to account for them, is not reliable enough.
The Royal Decree approved by the Government gave the term until March 31 so that the Autonomous Communities provide the number of minors received and the “number of structural places” that the system has. Only then, based on these data, which must be certified, the number of minors that each territory will receive will be defined.
The Executive has been working with several projections in their negotiations with together months, documents with which the Government has provisionally calculated how the cast would be based on the latest figures they have, which must be updated with the information sent by the autonomies. The last projections table, which Eldiario.es has accessed, evidence in figures the greatest weight that the “previous effort of reception” will have. These calculations suggest that the regions that will have to receive will be the Community of Madrid (806), Andalusia (795) and Community Valenciana (478). While others such as Catalunya (27), Balearic Islands (59) and the Basque Country (88), will be the least host kids due to that “previous effort” made in the reception.
The reform guaranteed the approval of an extraordinary loan in 2025 with which the Treasury will finance a part of the costs derived from the transfer of minors, in this case, from the Canary Islands and Ceuta. Autonomies will only receive financing to cover the places that must be created above a minimum of space that the government assumes that each territory must have, which it calls “ordinary capacity.” That is, the decree will create a mechanism to redefine the minors reception system, with the introduction of a minimum of children and adolescents’ reception, such as the one that currently exists in other areas such as, for example, the toilet where each community must have a minimum number of hospital beds.
If the Autonomous Communities do not unanimously agree to boost another way, the Government will calculate the number of minimum places with each territory with the following formula: “The capacity will be obtained to divide the total population of each autonomous community as of December 31 of the previous year, by the quotient resulting from dividing the total population of Spain to December 31 of the previous year between the maximum number of minors. Spanish protection system set ”. For this, the Executive will be based on the updated information presented by the Autonomous Communities before March 31, 2025.
This figure of “ordinary reception” places will be key both to request financing from the State Extraordinary Fund and to, in case of humanitarian crisis, justify the saturation of the reception system to request a new transfer. In order for the occupation presented and the number of structural places are considered valid, the welcome kids must have been included in the Interior Minors Registry and the open places must have been certified by the Ministry of Youth and Childhood.
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