The Government meets this Wednesday with the communities in a Sectoral Conference to discuss the continuity of the reception model for unaccompanied migrant minors among all autonomous communities after a year of the system's operation, an extension to which some communities like Madrid have already opposed.
The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, presides starting at 10:30 hours over a new meeting that, like many of the previous ones, is expected to be tense, since there are great differences between the Government's position and the communities most affected by migratory pressure, such as the Canary Islands, and others chaired by the PP, such as Madrid.
The reform of the immigration law, which forced all autonomous communities to take responsibility for young people so that arrival zones would not see their resources saturated, turned one year old last March 18.
In this period, despite the strong opposition from many communities -eleven have challenged the model before the Constitutional Court-, more than 1,100 children and adolescents have been transferred, which has allowed communities like the Canary Islands to exit the overcrowding situation they were in.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced that the Government will extend for one more year the legislative modification that has allowed these transfers, an idea that the Canary Islands supports but not some communities presided over by the PP, such as Madrid.
Last Monday, the Madrid regional minister, Ana Dávila, sent a letter to the Government rejecting new transfers because, in her opinion, there is no legal coverage for it as the deadlines have expired, and warned that she will take legal action if the Executive tries to extend the system.
A letter to which Torres responded yesterday, assuring the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso that it was mistaken: The transfers continue to have absolute legal coverage and have recently been endorsed by the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Madrid based on the best interest of the minor, he defended in another letter.
In addition to this matter, the meeting will address other topics, such as the annual evaluation report on the Strategy for the Eradication of Violence against Children and Adolescents 2023 and 2024 and the state of implementation in Spain of the Barnahaus model for comprehensive care for child victims of violence or sexual abuse.