Ceuta is already responsible for 862 unaccompanied minors, despite an official ordinary capacity of 29, and expects the count to pass 1,000. Ceuta has nearly 30 children for every official placeThe Ministry of Youth and Childhood has set Ceuta’s ordinary capacity for unaccompanied migrant children at 29. €25m has been allocated to help Ceuta care for the ChildrenOn Tuesday August 4, Inclusion and Migration Minister Elma Saiz announced that Spain’s government would provide an extraordinary €25 million allocation to help Ceuta care for the children. Unaccompanied minors have specific legal protections and cannot simply be processed in the same way as adults who entered irregularly. Spain’s Real Decreto-ley 2/2025 created a mechanism for moving unaccompanied children from frontier territories whose protection systems are under exceptional pressure to other autonomous communities.