Article released today “The protection of children and adolescents in the Community of Madrid: more challenges and greater complexity” written by Pepa Horno in the publication of UNICEF Madrid Committee The agenda 2030 in the key of childhood in the Community of Madrid. Proposals for action, an analysis of the Sustainable Development Goal 16, “Promote societies fair, peaceful and inclusive” in its Meta 16.2, “put an end to maltreatment, the exploitation, the try and all The forms of violence and torture against children [and adolescents]”.

It involves a review of the challenges that had been identified in 2018 in the Community of Madrid and three great lines of improvement: intervention in violence and child and adolescent mental health, the need to rebuild networks and the adequacy of the regulatory framework. With all this, The article concludes with the following words (p. 43):

“The current situation of the protection of children and adolescents in the Community of Madrid, compared to the year 2018 when the UNICEF report was published, has become more difficult to deal with, both because of its complexity and because of its seriousness. And more considering that, in many of the aspects concerning the protection of children and adolescents, Official data after the COVID health crisis are not yet available 19. As has been tried to expose, The factors that explain this greater complexity are diverse and from different areas.. But it is the responsibility of the institutions to try to give an effective and clear response if they want to comply, at least for the most part, the goals set in the 2030 Agenda”.