The humanitarian emergency caused by a large influx of unaccompanied minors (at a rate of around 100 young people per day) and the years of budgetary extensions in the Generalitat (Catalan government) limited the capacity to award new services. Faced with this situation, the former leadership of the Department of Labor, Social Affairs, and Families argued in Parliament this Wednesday that it had to opt for emergency contracts with entities between 2016 and 2020, a formula reserved only for very exceptional situations. However, the Audit Office considers that these contracts were made without sufficient justification in the context of a national emergency, catastrophe, or immediate need to assist people in danger.

The murder of a social worker in a juvenile justice floor in Badajoz The death of three of the admitted children has inflamed the spirits of Catalan professionals. This Wednesday morning, they gathered outside their workplaces, and in the afternoon, they did so in Barcelona's Plaça de Sant Jaume, at a gathering organized by the College of Social Educators of Catalonia (CEESC), which attracted nearly 200 people. "We're not surprised by what happened in Badajoz," exclaimed a professional who works at a shelter, the "funnel" through which abandoned minors pass under the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) before being referred to the final resource. "We've normalized many complicated situations, assaults, and threats," asserted Noèlia.

A group of Torredembarra (Tarragonès) residents attacked a youth centre for unaccompanied foreign minors in the town on Thursday, injuring two of the detainees, one of them gravely. The events took place after a neighbourhood demonstration demanding more security after several crimes were committed by some young adults living in a squat in the area. Once the rally was over, dozens of protesters went on to search for some of the squatters and ended up assaulting a youth living in the centre, who was injured and is now in the Santa Tecla Hospital in Tarragona with a broken nose. They also went to the centre for minors, owned by the Generalitat, and vandalised it before entering and scaring the residents.