childhood at risk

Foster families wanted: "If you take care of us, we're the best advertisement for more."

Society | 12/07/2025

Inma Espín's family playing on the couch at home.

The Government renounces the professionalization of foster families to remove children from centers

Society | 03/07/2025

Judith and her foster son in the dining room of their home.

"They're going to screw the weakest among us": the Generalitat (Catalan government) is demanding thousands of euros from young people who have been ex-confined for "improper payments."

Society | 26/06/2025

Three minors under guardianship of the Generalitat

"The DGAIA did everything possible to protect the minor, but it failed."

Society | 11/06/2025

Councilor Martínez Bravo speaking before the Parliament's Social Rights Committee.

DGAIA workers demand a voice in the reform of the protection system

Society | 10/06/2025

Social sector workers protesting in front of the DGAIA.

More than 30,000 minors live without papers in Catalonia.

Society | 07/06/2025

Sofía with her mother Carolina Urbano, in a square in L'Hospitalet.

The Government disbands the DGAIA: it will have no capacity to hire or provide aid.

Society | 26/05/2025

The Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, held a press conference this Monday.

David Rodríguez: "The DGAIA has forgotten about prevention and has focused on places in juvenile detention centers."

Society | 25/05/2025

David Rodríguez, vice-dean of the College of Social Work, in a park in Barcelona.

"The DGAIA makes me feel like the bad mother I know I'm not."

Society | 24/05/2025

The assembly of families affected by the DGAIA in Barcelona

Social Rights puts the accelerator on and commits to presenting the 'new' DGAIA next week.

Society | 20/05/2025

The Minister for Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, speaks in the plenary session of the Parliament

"It lacks resources and protocols that don't work": the counselor's diagnosis of the DGAIA

Society | 19/05/2025

Councilor Martínez Bravo and Secretaries Teresa Llorenç and Raúl Moreno, during the meeting this Monday with the entities to address the changes in the DGAIA

Minors in care: what goes wrong makes them easy prey for sexual predators

Society | 17/05/2025

Minors in care speak openly about sexual exploitation.

The Minister of Social Rights: "I have no evidence that the DGAIA opened a case against the pedophilia network."

Society | 16/05/2025

Counselor Mònica Martínez Bravo, in her office at the Ministry, in the Barcelona Forum area.

The three legal cases against the large-scale pedophilia network in Barcelona now total sixteen suspects.

Society | 14/05/2025

The school's computer technician allegedly found pornographic material on the priest's computer.

One thousand euros per person per month: the bill Barcelona pays for housing 3,000 vulnerable people in pensions.

Society | 14/04/2025

Shirley Medina lives in a hostel in Gavà with her five children and is at risk of being homeless tomorrow.

Nine out of ten immigrants who have left guardianship are studying or working.

Society | 25/03/2025

Thierno Kalidou Diallo and Yassin el Baied, on Friday in Barcelona.

The new director of the DGAIA will be the manager of social services at the Barcelona Provincial Council.

Society | 25/03/2025

The Government Meeting, the second of President Illa's term, took place today, Tuesday, at the Palau de la Generalitat

A mother with four children, about to become homeless: "I don't want my children to live in the open"

Society | 12/02/2025

Shirley Medina in her room at the Gavà hostel where she lives with four children.