Ministry of Youth and Children

Ministry of Youth and Children

Ministerio de Juventud e Infancia
Palace of the Count of Eliseda, Madrid
Agency overview
Formed	November 21, 2023;17 months ago (2023-11-21)
Preceding agency	Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda (youth and children)
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Government of Spain
Minister responsible	Sira Rego, Minister
Agency executives	Rubén Pérez Correa, Secretary of State Rafael Escudero Alday, Under-Secretary
Website	www.juventudeinfancia.gob.es

The Ministry of Youth and Children (Spanish : Ministerio de Juventud e Infancia, 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. ^[1]

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: ^[2]

• 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

• Institute of Youth (INJUVE)

List of officeholders

Office name:

• Ministry of Youth and Children (2023–present)

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government	Prime Minister (Tenure)		Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Sira Rego (born 1973)	21 November 2023	Incumbent	1 year and 158 days		IU, PCE	Sánchez III		Pedro Sánchez (2018–present)	[3]

References

1. "Real Decreto 829/2023, de 20 de noviembre, por el que se reestructuran los departamentos ministeriales" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (278). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 154682–154688. 21 November 2023. ISSN   0212-033X.
2. Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública (2024-02-28), Royal Decree 211/2024, of February 27, which develops the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Youth and Children. (in Spanish), pp. 23565–23575, retrieved 2024-02-29
3. "Real Decreto 835/2023, de 20 de noviembre, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (278). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 154695. 21 November 2023. ISSN   0212-033X.