I am concerned about what Isla and the counselor have said about the DGAIA

I hear the president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) talk about the penultimate disaster of the protection system and say he'll act "come what may." The Minister of Social Rights claims she'll fix it in three months, that she'll prioritize "prevention," and that what the Directorate General for Child Care needs is a "management model." And beyond the constant pain of learning about the immense lack of protection in the system, I'm even more worried about the responses.

I suppose the president isn't aware that he should bring down a good portion of Parliament. He overlooks the idea of the existence of individual culpabilities and forgets the long list of reports read by the deputies, the long list of committees and resolutions, the partisan confrontations based on the daily dramas, decades of political ignorance about the world of a good portion of children in Catalonia, the funding of programs from...

The minister's responses worry me even more. She conveys the idea that everything is a problem of mismanagement (which clearly has much room for improvement) and seems unaware of the system's constantly worsening crisis. Children don't need "prevention," they need childhood. We don't need to address them to avoid future problems, but rather to ensure they can live their childhood in the present. Homelessness isn't a way to prevent abuse, but rather a situation in which basic environments are insufficient to guarantee development or support from close people is nonexistent; when precariousness doesn't allow a child to live what he or she needs to live. She wants to implement prevention? Include in the benefits portfolio of the social services law the funding of two hours of parenting time every day for any child. The protective system receives everything we generate when their right to a childhood is not met. To be homeless is to have no one to turn to.

Changing the system requires returning to the local community and enabling local, neighborhood social and educational resources to care for children. They shouldn't spend their time managing benefits. For example, to properly care for a child, social services and the school don't need a protocol. They need to connect and agree on how to support their lives and the helplessness of the adults around them.

I hope the department realizes that the way the EAIA (Child and Adolescent Care Teams) operate makes no sense. Desperate primary school children are seeking help or resources for children in need of care. The vast majority of situations are not due to serious abuse but rather to vital neglect in varying and changing degrees. Do they want reform? Additions. Don't talk about foster care without guaranteeing support for families, or putting centers in the hands of organizations without ensuring that they will take care to monitor and supervise what they do.

Along with the institutional abuse that can occur in early childhood care, the next particularly complex situation is that of adolescent boys and girls, who represent the majority, for example, in centers. It is important that they not hide the enormous difficulty of being useful in lives that are reckoning with the past, lives confined in the midst of chaos, which will easily fall into mental health categories, which cannot be protected against. If they investigate the case Of the girl who has stirred up the mud, they may discover that when she needed to confide in someone, her guardian changed every few months. Obviously, no one knew anything about her real life.

Many years ago I wrote: "Protection is a minor issue subject to constant changes and political confrontations only limited to the cases with media resonance."