The Government promotes a plan to increase the name of families supporting children under six years of age.

To Catalonia, uns 280 infants guardianships between zero and six live in a residential centeraccording to data from the Government of the Generalitat. A situation that the Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravoconsiders “unacceptable” and that “cal be solved as quickly as possible.” This has been confirmed by Dilluns in a press conference for the Department, in which he has announced a strategic plan to address the problem and per encourage the support of minors that they cannot romance their own biological family.

Specifically, it has been explained that there are 59 minors in centers that have five children, 44 in those with four children, 43 in those with three children and 134 children between 0 and 3 children. The figure of 280 has increased significantly in relation to any passatwhen he had registered 211 infants under six years old. “While evaluating the situation of these children, whether they can return to their biological family or whether to activate the adoption route, they are in a care center. These children are well cared for, but it is essential that they understand and believe in a familiar environment per al seu correct physical and cognitive development“, the counselor has stated.

In this sense, Catalonia is the autonomous community that accumulates a higher name, but “The objective is to reach zero“. Martínez Bravo has pointed out that it is time to “take action” through various short-term measures to guarantee the well-being of children in families of all ages. According to reports, 18% of children have suffered physical abuse and 8% have been exposed to male violence in their biological core.

Stagnation in the name of missing families

Malgrat l’increment de minors tutelats minors de sis anys, the name of families with children and adolescents has stagnated at the height of gairebé 800. While in 2023 there were 790, in guany there were 787 arreu from Catalonia. The supporting families can be of different modes, according to the period they are willing to assume: they can be emergency and diagnostic (maximum six months), in simple mode (ends to two years), permanent and specialized (the least requires special attention). The urgent families are those who have care of the most petits while there is a report that determines their future, that is, whether both parents return or not.

Since the constitution of the new Government, Minister Martínez Bravo and her team have dedicated themselves to exploring the reasons that are not more familiar to them. One of the main problems is, first of all, that these The family’s six-month period of emergency ends long after 18 or 20 months Because the reports are not executed as quickly as they should.

Així mateix, Drets Socials has also detected a “lack of accompaniment for complex procedures“, given that many minors are in an irregular administrative situation; and that the visiting regime of the nen acollit with the biological family “is not adapted to family conciliation.” You visit them, check in every 15 days, they have some time during school/work hours so you must have the presence of a technician from the Department.

The president of theAssociation of Families Acollidores of Barcelona (AFABAR), Inma Espínwho attended the press conference after meeting with the minister, explained to Public What a cry “because you can’t wait,” because the girl doesn’t know how to justify having to get out of school so much that she doesn’t have to reveal that she’s a scared girl.

Measures to encourage the support of minors

With all this information about the taula and after escorting different families, The Department will allocate 2.3 million in total to reinforce the technical teams and improve the administrative effort. At the end, he will contract 25 professionals to streamline reportswill contract a support (sense to specify) for the processing of the most complex documentation, is to reinforce the coordination between the General Directorate of Care for Children and Adolescents (DGAIA) and the Catalan Institute of Assistance and l’Adopció (ICAA) and dissemination actions will be promoted to find out more families. “Ideally It would be difficult to reach 1,400“, Martínez Bravo pointed out.

At the end, they will search make the visitation regime more flexible for biological peersthey will promote better taxes for families and will create a coordination table between the Generalitat, entities and families. For now no calendar has been specified for these actions.

The rebuda of this strategic strategy has been positive on the part of the families thereespecially the will to have the most compte and escort the obstacles that cross a child. The president of theAssociació de Families Acollidores de Lleida (Afall), Gemma Civitcelebrates the announced measures and assures Public that “acollir enganxa”, but that it is a “russian muntanya”. I for this reason, cal that the administration “passi de les paraules als fets.”