At the General Directorate of Childhood and Adolescence Rights, work is done with the following applications:
1. ADIN: International Adoption
The International Adoption web application (hereinafter, ADIN) aims to facilitate the processing of adoption files for minors, from other countries.
Through this tool, the autonomous communities record data related to the international adoption process in its different phases: family offer, suitability assessment, sending files to accredited intermediary organisms in international adoption or to countries of origin (in cases where such files are processed through the public route), child assignment to the family, and adoption sentence.
In compliance with what is established in Chapter VI of Royal Decree 573/2023, of July 4, which approves the International Adoption Regulation, the National Registry of Accredited International Adoption Bodies and of Claims and Incidents is created and organized, unique for the entire national territory, with assignment and dependence on the General Directorate of Childhood and Adolescence Rights. The Registry is also carried out through the ADIN computer system, to which public entities will have access, for the introduction and consultation of data of accredited organisms.
The mentioned Registry consists of two sections:
- Registry of Accredited Bodies. The first section of the Registry will be public, general, and free.
- Registry of Claims and Incidents. In the second section of the Registry, claims and incidents presented by any user of an intermediary body, related to the services provided by these, both in Spain and in the country of origin, as well as the estimation or dismissal of the communicated claim or incident will be noted.
2. Unified Registry of Suspected Cases of Child Abuse (RUMI)
In order to obtain updated statistics on detection, registration, and notification of cases of child abuse, the Interautonomic Childhood Commission agreed to create an online computer application for the registration of notifications of suspected cases of child abuse. This provision was endorsed by Article 22 ter of Organic Law 1/1996, of January 15, on the Legal Protection of Minors, partially modifying the Civil Code and the Civil Procedure Act (reform carried out by Law 26/2015):
Article 22 ter. Information system on the protection of children and adolescents.
The Autonomous Communities and the General State Administration will establish a shared information system that allows the uniform knowledge of the child and adolescent protection situation in Spain, and of offers for care and adoption, with data disaggregated by gender and disability, both for monitoring specific child protection measures and for statistical purposes. For these same purposes, the Unified Registry of Child Abuse will be developed.
The computer application, operating since 2010, allows the Autonomous Communities to incorporate their data and offers national statistics that are annually integrated into the Statistical Bulletin of Child Protection Measures. Although in use, it is an obsolete application that is intended to be replaced by the Unified Registry of Social Services on Violence against Children (RUSSVI) when it becomes operational.
3. Unified Registry of Social Services on Violence against Children (RUSSVI)
The RUSSVI will be the replacement for the RUMI as a source of statistical information on cases of violence against children and adolescents from primary care social services, along with information from the public child protection entity. It is contemplated in Article 44 of Organic Law 8/2021, of June 4, on integral protection of children and adolescents from violence:
Article 44. Monitoring and registration of cases of violence against minors
1. Primary care social services must establish, in accordance with the procedure regulated in each autonomous community, a system for monitoring and registering cases of violence against children and adolescents where notifications and communications received, confirmed cases, and different measures put in place in relation to the intervention of these social services are recorded.
2. The statistical information of cases of violence against children and adolescents from primary care social services, along with that from the public child protection entity, will be incorporated, with the established disaggregation, into the Unified Registry of Child Abuse referred to in Article 22 ter of Organic Law 1/1996, of January 15, and will be called the Unified Registry of Social Services on Violence against Children (hereinafter RUSSVI).
The application is currently in the pre-production and testing phase, and a launch plan has been designed through its piloting in several autonomous communities.
4. Central Registry of Information on Violence against Children and Adolescents (RCIVIA)
This Registry is contemplated in Article 56 of the LOPIVI and the Royal Decree of creation is still pending approval (after the public consultation phase).
Article 56. Central Registry of Information on Violence against Children and Adolescents.
1. For the purpose of sharing information that allows uniform knowledge of the situation of violence against children and adolescents, the Government will establish, by royal decree, the creation of the Central Registry of Information on Violence against Children and Adolescents, as well as the specific information and the procedure through which the General Council of the Judiciary, the Security Forces and Corps, the RUSSVI, and the various public administrations must provide the required data to the registry.
The royal decree will indicate the information that must be notified anonymously to the Registry, which will at least include the following aspects:
a) Concerning the victims: age, sex, type of violence, severity, nationality, and, if applicable, disability.
b) Concerning the aggressors: age, sex, and relationship with the victim.
c) Police information (complaints, victimizations, etc.) and judicial.
d) Measures implemented against violence on children and adolescents.
2. The Central Registry of Information on Violence against Children and Adolescents will be organically attached to the ministerial department responsible for child policies.
3. With the data obtained by the Registry, a report on the situation of violence against children and adolescents will be published annually and will be given the greatest possible publicity.
5. Inter-territorial Assignment Mechanism (MIASI)
In compliance with Additional Provision 5th of Law 26/2015, of July 28, on the modification of the child and adolescent protection system, the Inter-territorial Assignment Mechanism (MIASI), a web application, has been developed in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities to facilitate the assignment to appropriate families of those minors with a specific profile, in whose Autonomous Community there are no suitable families for their care or it is necessary that this is carried out by a different Community from their residence. Furthermore, Section nine, points 2 and 3, and eleventh of the Protocol for the coordination of actions of public entities competent in the matter of protection of minors, in cases of transfers, indicate the need to provide systems that facilitate minors being protected with measures that are implemented in Autonomous Communities different from their residence. The MIASI application is currently operational, although its degree of use by the Autonomous Communities is quite low, due to other communication channels being established between them for this purpose.
6. Web application for monitoring the progress of the implementation of the European Child Guarantee (GIE) in Spain.
It is configured as the main tool for the annual collection of information on implemented actions that contribute to achieving the objectives established in the “State Plan for the implementation of the GIE in Spain 2022-2030” (PAEGIE).
The tool is being developed as an efficient information collection system from the Autonomous Communities, taking into account the information needs to be collected at both the central level and at the level of Autonomous Communities and Cities, the requirements of the PAEGIE monitoring and evaluation system, and the functionality to collect a large amount of data that serves as a basis for the preparation of national and biennial progress reports on the GIE in Spain. Currently, the DGDIA is internally developing this web application which, once developed, will allow the collection of information in an agile and efficient manner and the visualization of the planning and progress of the Plan.
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