With this item, which has to be validated at the beginning of November at the Sectoral Conference on Children and Adolescents, Balears will receive almost 7.5 million euros from the State for the management of this regional competence

The Ministry of Youth and Children will transmit to the next Sectoral Commission, convened for October 17, the proposal to transfer a new extraordinary credit of 13 million euros to the Canary Islands, Balears, Ceuta and Melilla for the care of unaccompanied migrant children, of which 1.2 million euros correspond to Balears, in accordance with the recent declaration of migratory emergency of the archipelago.

Once this proposal for the distribution of credit by the Sectoral Commission has been evaluated, it must be validated by the Sectoral Conference on Children and Adolescents, which is expected to take place at the beginning of November. This new line of funds adds to the 22 million euros that the Ministry of Youth and Children has already approved during this year for the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and the Balears. To this must be added the fund of 100 million euros linked to RDL 2/2025, which regulates the reception of unaccompanied migrant minors, and which allocates another 4 M€ to Balears. As a whole, therefore, the Government has made available to the CCAA for the management of this competition a total of 135 M€, of which about 7.5 M€ will correspond to Balears, once the green light is given to this new credit distribution.

In this way, the Government reaffirms its commitment to contribute to guaranteeing the rights of unaccompanied migrant children in the border territories. The government delegate to the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, has reiterated that the State puts “resources at the disposal of the regional administrations to guarantee the sustainability of their reception systems and so that the best interests of children and adolescents prevail”. Rodríguez Badal has insisted that the solution for the reception of these people must be "solidarity and shared" among all communities.