PSC, ERC, and Junts share the commission investigating irregularities at the DGAIA.

BarcelonaParliament on Tuesday set up a commission of inquiry into irregularities at the DGAIA (Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care) between 2011 and 2025, which the House of Representatives unanimously approved in July. Following a trickle of media reports about the agency's poor performance, benefits improperly paid to young people who were formerly in care, and the maintenance of ghost squares In centers, the PSC, ERC, and Comuns promoted the creation of the commission, chaired by Socialist MP Jordi Riba and with Republican Anna Balsera as vice-president. In the distribution of positions on the table, Junts has been assigned the secretariat, which is held by Maria Àngels Plans. In principle, the deputies will have to present their conclusions before the end of the year.

From now on, the commission must investigate and attempt to clarify where the child protection system has failed. Both the Audit Office and the Ombudsman have focused on the functioning of the DGAIA. hastily converted into the DGPPIA, in an attempt by the Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo, to rekindle the flames of an institution that has been severely discredited by several scandals, including that of a minor in the care of the DGAIA who was sexually exploited by a group of pedophiles for months, until the monitors at the center where she lived separated from her family. In addition, it will also be necessary to determine whether the case of the 4.7 million euros paid to young people in care Without having the right, it was a mistake, negligence on the part of social entities, or whether they profited.

The committee's chairman, Socialist Riba, encouraged the committee's members to "get to the bottom of the matter" and asked them to act "accordingly and responsibly" during the months of parliamentary work, given that they will be dealing with "delicate and sensitive" information.

The commission's launch coincides with the postponement of the return to the DGPPIA of the centralization of benefit payments and with the renewal of the contract of Resilis, the entity in charge of managing them and which is at the center of the controversy.