Department of Social Rights

30 foreign parents arrested for passing off their children as unaccompanied minors

Society | 23/10/2025

Two unaccompanied minors under the guardianship of the DGAIA.

Waiting lists for treatment of sexual violence against minors due to lack of staff

Society | 13/10/2025

A room at the Barnahus in Tarragona, where comprehensive care is provided to minors who are victims of sexual violence.

Catalonia 'seeks' poor families to receive more aid

Society | 22/09/2025

Teenagers playing on a school court in Barcelona, in a file photo.

Social Rights gives itself another year to save thousands of nursing home places

Society | 02/09/2025

Two geriatric assistants help an elderly woman in a nursing home in Catalonia.

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.

Catalan social services pass by the minimum

Society | 30/06/2025

A caregiver holds hands with the elderly woman she cares for at home.

Former guardians on their claim for benefits: "We are being unfairly persecuted"

Society | 27/06/2025

See and Abdellah, former foster children, with Ivan, a counselor at the Dar Chabab day center, who teaches them literacy classes.

"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.

Albert Carreras

The poverty of Welfare

Opinion | 06/06/2025

Mothers of dependent children: "We can't take it anymore."

Society | 03/06/2025

Rally of the Mothers in Diversity Union.

Senior Esquerra officials defend the DGAIA's management: "There were incidents, but no one pocketed any money."

Society | 28/05/2025

Councillor Chakir El Homrani with his department's leadership during his parliamentary appearance.

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.

Municipalities receive instructions on how to complete migrant integration reports.

Society | 21/05/2025

Residents of Fondo de Santa Coloma, one of the neighborhoods with the largest population of newcomers.

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

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.

Families with children earning less than 3,700 euros per month will be able to apply for child-rearing assistance.

Society | 12/05/2025

Students from a nursery school sitting in the courtyard.

The delinquency of public administrations forces the third sector to go into debt

Society | 04/05/2025

Food distribution at a Caritas warehouse during the pandemic.

Nursing homes are calling on the government to raise rates to improve salaries: "The sector is saying enough."

Society | 16/04/2025

An elderly woman walks with the aid of a walker through the facilities of a nursing home.

Social workers denounce workplace violence: "User frustration is paid out on us."

Society | 10/04/2025

Gathering of educators and social workers in Sant Jaume Square following the murder of a colleague in Badajoz.