Child protection: distribution by safeguard 2017

This statistic distributes the share of minors under the supervision of the Spanish child protection system in 2017, by type of protective measure adopted. As of December that year, 62 percent of the minors in the protection system had been allocated an ex lege custody arrangement, by which the child in question is declared in abandonment. Also that year, 27 percent of the Spanish minors under this system were still awaiting the assignment of a protective measure. As of end of December that year, over 47 thousand minors were under the supervision of the Spanish child protection system.

Percentage distribution of minors in the child protection system in Spain as of December 2017, by type of protective measure

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Release date

2018

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Spain

Survey time period

2017

Special properties

data as of December 31, 2017

Supplementary notes

- Ex lege custody: decision reached by the appropriate authority by which the minor in question is declared in abandonment. By this decision, the child is then given custody through the ministry of Law. In practice, this decision implies the child's custody.

- Guardianship: decision reached by the appropriate authority by which the state takes responsibility of the child's custody. Unlike ex lege custody, declaration of abandonment is not required by the appropriate authority.

- Under consideration prior to the protective measure: files in the process of analysis prior to passing a protective decision. Those cases that have already been allocated a protective decision are not included under this section, notwithstanding that the case is being under consideration for amendments or cessation.

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