The Ministry of Youth and Children (, MIJUI) is a ministerial department in the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on matters of youth and protection of minors.
The department was created as part of the Sánchez III Government as a split from the Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda. It also assumed some of its powers from the High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty that existed in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2018 to 2023.
It is headed by Sira Rego.
Structure
The Ministry is structured as follows:
- The Secretariat of State for Youth and Children
- The Directorate-General for Children and Adolescents Rights
- The Deputy Directorate-General for the Promotion of Children and Adolescents Rights
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Children and Adolescents Programs
- The Undersecretariat
- The General Technical Secretariat
- The Deputy General Technical Secretariat
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Appeals, International Relations and Publishing
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Personnel, Inspection of Services and Coordination
- The Deputy Directorate-General for Economic and Budgetary Management and General Affairs
- The Division for Information and Communications Technologies
Agencies
List of officeholders
Office name:
- Ministry of Youth and Children (2023âÂÂpresent)
References