Overview
- Bizkaia has installed panic-button alarms in ten provincial homes for minors, with systems operational since September.
- The alarms allow staff to connect directly to the 112 emergency network or alert colleagues when they fear an attack.
- Álava uses panic buttons selectively in smaller centres with limited staffing and in a new specialised adolescent facility that also has cameras in certain areas.
- Gipuzkoa’s provincial government has publicly ruled out installing panic buttons in its supervised flats.
- The July assault left a social educator in Bilbao requiring plastic surgery with 16 stitches, and the 16-year-old suspect was detained and ordered to the juvenile internment centre in Zumarraga.