Madrid spends about €7,000 on each unaccompanied minor.
The Community of Madrid has increased the number of minors in care by 1,566.1% between 2019 and 2025.
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The Community of Madrid has increased the number of unaccompanied foreign minors (UMFs) under its care fifteenfold in just six years. According to what was published The Vanguard, In 2019 there were 600 minors in care in Madrid. As of 1 April 2025, there are already 9,999, according to the official data collected by The Debate, which details a constant and growing migration flow year after year.
This increase of 1.566 % has been accompanied by ever-increasing public spending. In 2024, Isabel Díaz Ayuso's government invested 62.7 million euros in childcare. This figure includes food, accommodation, centre management and the opening of new facilities. If this expenditure is divided by the total number of children in care, the public cost amounts to 6,919 euros per child.
In three months of 2025, almost as many minors as in the whole of 2021
Between January and March 2025 alone, Madrid has received 937 unaccompanied foreign minors, almost equalling the 996 who arrived throughout 2021. This figure reveals a worrying acceleration in the pace of arrivals, and suggests that the annual total could far exceed that of recent years if this trend continues.
2022 had so far been the year with the highest attendance, with 2,842 minors, but 2024 also recorded a strong increase, reaching the 2,442 minors in care. The trend in recent years has been uneven but clearly increasing overall. This is the annual balance of arrivals:
- 2020: 822 arrivals | 1,422 minors in total
- 2021: 996 arrivals | 2,418 minors accumulated
- 20222,842 arrivals | 5,260 minors in total
- 20231,360 arrivals | 6,620 minors in total
- 20242,442 arrivals | 9,062 minors accumulated
- 2025 (until March): 937 arrivals | 9,999 minors accumulated
Structural crisis and lack of consensus
The evolution shows that the reception network has not only had to absorb sporadic peaks in arrivals, but also to keep them under supervision. an accumulative load of almost 10,000 minors. This pressure has meant that, according to The Debate, that the care centres are at 132 per cent of their capacity.
Parallel to this, the institutional conflict has been on the rise. The Community of Madrid accuses the central government of carrying out forced and unilateral distributions of minors from the Canary Islands and Ceuta, without first consulting the communities. The response has been a challenge before the Constitutional Court against the royal decree-law regulating this distribution. The agreement to transfer more than 4,400 minors, struck between the PSOE and Junts, has also stirred up political debate within the left's own ranks, with criticism from Podemos.
Beyond the figures and the acronyms, what Madrid has ahead of it is a A major social challengeto welcome, protect and integrate thousands of vulnerable young people while the legal and institutional framework is mired in a climate of tension and lack of coordination. And this mismatch between the number of minors and the political response only serves to exacerbate a crisis that is already clearly structural.
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