Ministry of Youth and Children

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.

Ministry of Youth and Children
Ministerio de Juventud e Infancia

Palace of the Count of Eliseda, Madrid
Agency overview
FormedNovember 21, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-11-21)
Preceding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Spain
Minister responsible
  • Sira Rego, Minister
Agency executives
  • Rubén Pérez Correa, Secretary of State
  • Rafael Escudero Alday, Under-Secretary
Websitewww.juventudeinfancia.gob.es

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

  • 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 2 years and 88 days IU, PCE Sánchez III Pedro Sánchez

(2018–present)

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