The Council of Ministers today approved the proposal to distribute 22 million euros as an extraordinary credit to the Autonomous Communities of the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla for the year 2025. This item aims to ensure the sustainability of the reception systems of these territories.

In this way, the Canarian archipelago will receive eight and a half million euros, Ceuta seven million, Melilla four and a half million and the Balearic Islands, which will receive part of this credit for the first time, two million euros.

The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has acknowledged “the overeffort made by the arrival territories for the care and care of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents who come to Spain.” Faced with this, he said that this extraordinary distribution of credit “supports the autonomous communities and cities that make a high material and budgetary effort.”

These resources provided by the central Government will be used for the immediate care and reception of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, as well as all information, counselling and psychosocial support activities, including schooling, socio-occupational integration and social inclusion, among others.

Rego recalled that his department is promoting the development of Royal Decree-Law 2/2025 with the objective of giving “a supportive, dignified and binding reception to those who arrive alone in our country” and of “helping the territories of arrival”: “Migration is a country issue and must be addressed as a country,” he added.

The Ministry of Youth and Children has convened a new Sectoral Conference on Children and Adolescents next Thursday, April 17, where it will be proposed for ratification.