Overview

• The Council of Ministers approved a royal decree that defines each region’s ordinary capacity to host unaccompanied minors, with Andalusia set at 2,827 places.
• Any territory reaching triple its ordinary capacity will be declared in extraordinary contingency, which automatically activates mandatory relocation protocols.
• The procedure allows the Canary Islands to request contingency status so government subdelegations can assemble transfer dossiers and designate destination regions that must ensure comprehensive care.
• Government sources describe transfers as imminent, and ministry calculations indicate the Community of Madrid would receive about 600 minors from the Canary Islands.
• PP-led regions reject the design, citing the exclusion of Catalonia and the Basque Country from the extraordinary redistribution and warning their services are not prepared for large inflows.