The Generalitat (Catalan Government) is seeking families with children who are entitled to child benefits and who, for various reasons, are not receiving them. This is one of the measures proposed by the Committee of Experts for Transformation and Social Innovation (CETIS), which a few months ago was tasked by the Ministry of Social Rights with finding ways to reduce the number of children who are entitled to benefits. the child poverty rate, which stands at 34% and which, in the words of Minister Mònica Martínez Bravo, is "persistent and higher" than the European Union average (20%), and even that of Spain (29.2%). In fact, only Bulgaria (35%) surpasses it.

The Department of Social Rights and Inclusion has described as a "cordial" meeting held this Wednesday by the regional minister, Mònica Martínez Bravo, with five spokespersons for the young people who have been placed in care and whom the Generalitat is demanding to be treated. return between 12,000 and 36,000 euros for alleged "improper payments". At the meeting, which took place early this morning in Parliament, the minister apologized for all the suffering and commotion caused to the group by sending the letters and also expressed her willingness to "support" them in the process of providing the required documentation within the ten-day period. For her part, the ombudsman has requested approval for the forgiveness of these debts, as was already done with the recipients of the guaranteed citizen income.

Mothers with dependent children who must stop working. Daughters or wives who care for parents or partners at home"Families, primarily women, are forced to sacrifice themselves, to make great sacrifices of their lives," summarizes Gustavo García, coordinator of the 2024 DESC Index, which the State Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services uses annually to compile official figures on the state of public social services. The phrase serves to illustrate the extent to which the new home care models advocated by all governments (the ministry is implementing a deinstitutionalization strategy) fail when they clash with the reality of households that must do their part to care for dependent family members with the limited public aid they receive.

The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, defended this Wednesday in Parliament the capacity of the DGAIA to protect the minor sexually exploited by a pedophilia network, although she also admitted that she hadn't done enough to spare him the pain. With the report prepared by the department's legal services, the minister appeared before the committee at her own request, not with the intention of "finding culprits," she clarified, but with the desire to rekindle a system that "many years ago" needed a refoundation"The system protected the minor as best it could, and despite the support of professionals, it failed, and nothing can compensate for the damage done to her during her adolescence," she stressed.

In 2000 I defended a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris 8 that questioned the concept ofchildhood at risk, a term as widely used as it is little analyzed in the field of child care. I had completed my student teaching internship at a juvenile justice center. I was fortunate enough to meet Oriol Badia, the director, and today the center bears his name in recognition of his career and commitment to social justice. This experience, along with volunteering at a center in the La Mina neighborhood run by Salesians with young neighborhood counselors, and directing a municipal summer camp in Raval, led me to want to research how to find solutions to juvenile delinquency. In 1989, the Generalitat (Catalan government) awarded me a scholarship to research this topic in Paris, just after the DGAIA (Generalitat of Catalonia) had been established. These were the years in which the debate was underway regarding the model of juvenile justice and child protection that Catalonia desired, and we looked toward Europe, especially France, with the Bonnemaison model of local, community, and preventive policy in the neighborhoods.

In the middle of a reputational crisis, the Government reformulates the General Directorate of Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA)) and creates a new agency, focused more on prevention to minimize the withdrawal of guardianships from minors. The new Directorate General for the Prevention and Protection of Children and Adolescents (DGPPIA) will introduce tools for greater control in management, but will also lose powers, as it will no longer have the financial powers it had until now: that of contracting foster care places in residential centers where minors separated from their families are housed, nor will it be responsible for processing them. Financial aid, which until now was managed through a contract with third-sector entities, will pass into the hands of the administration.

The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, is in a hurry to close the Scandals affecting the General Directorate of Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA), which have once again put the child protection system in the spotlight. In less than 24 hours, the regional minister brought forward the timeline for the presentation of the "refoundation" of the DGAIA: while at Monday's meeting with the third sector and professional associations, the department gave a deadline of between two and three months to have a proposal ready, this Tuesday morning the regional spokesperson, Silvia Paneque, shortened the period to between three. Finally, Martínez Bravo concluded that the plan will be made public "next week."

The Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, announced this Monday morning that the Government is starting work to carry out a "comprehensive transformation" of the General Directorate of Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA). Martínez Bravo said this after a meeting with third sector social entities and schools, proposing "proposals" that the entities have been demanding for years, and will set up two working groups with experts: one will be in charge of how to improve prevention with families, to detect risk situations to reduce the withdrawal of guardianship, while the other group will focus on the conditions of the centers. The Minister has said that the current is a "moment of catharsis" for the entire 12 years in care who was sexually exploited should be a "window of opportunity" to address, now, a new strategy and planning for the entire system, according to sources present at the meeting explained in ARA. -BK_SLT_LNA~ better, but they have not given details of the calendar or what the changes will be. The case of the minor and the shortcomings that experts and minors highlight, the minister admitted in a brief appearance before the media that the problems at the DGAIA are evident: "There are management difficulties, a lack of resources and protocols that sometimes do not work," she said, adding that the agency must adapt to the "social complexity" and new challenges.

The head of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, has assured that in the transfer of portfolio that Carles Campuzno's team made to her, she was not informed about the case of the 12-year-old girl under administrative protection who was sexually exploited for months by a pedophile network in Barcelona. In an interview on TV3, the minister indicated that she also has no evidence that the General Directorate of Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) opened a file upon learning of the case of repeated rapes against this minor, although she also did not want to rule out the possibility that it was opened and not transferred to her when they took over in August of last year.

The executive council of the Government will appoint Josep Muñoz Luque as the new director of the General Directorate of Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) this Tuesday at its weekly meeting. replacement of the dismissed Isabel Carrasco, who has only been at the helm of the entity responsible for protecting minors who cannot live with their biological family for six months. Muñoz was until now the manager of Social Welfare Services at the Barcelona Provincial Council.

The Ministry of Social Rights has dismissed Isabel Carrasco, the head of the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA), who was appointed last September. The news came to her in advance. The Newspaper And sources from the regional ministry have framed the decision to dismiss the senior official as a "lack of understanding." Carrasco's replacement will be appointed at the weekly meeting of the Governing Council tomorrow, Tuesday, as well as the deputy director of the agency, Joan Mayoral, who has also been removed from the organization.

In one year, in 2026, the Generalitat will open a one-stop shop to manage both the minimum vital income (IMV), the benefit created by the Spanish government during the pandemic, and the Catalan guaranteed citizen income (RGC). But after the summer, the new virtual platform will be launched to handle the files for this last benefit. The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, has announced that today, her department is working on technical issues so that people who have the right to collect these social benefits have to suffer less paperwork and less bureaucracy.