Andorra Family Meeting Service Handles 81 Minors in 2025 Amid Rising Family Conflict Cases
Andorra's service managed 81 children in family conflicts, with new cases climbing to 30 from prior years. It facilitated hundreds of supervised visits and handovers. Foster care placements dropped to 36 minors.
Key Points
- 30 new cases in 2025, up from 21 in 2024 and 26 in 2023, all tied to family conflicts.
- 51 minors from prior years; total activities: 120 tutored visits, 532 supervised visits, 124 handovers.
- Foster care saw 36 minors total (30 extended family, 6 non-relatives), down 7.7% from 2024.
- Service provides safe spaces for parent-child visits to prevent family relationship conflicts.
Andorra's Family Meeting Service attended to 81 minors in 2025 amid rising new cases linked to family conflicts.
The service recorded 30 new cases involving children and adolescents during the year, up from 21 in 2024 and 26 in 2023. These fresh cases accounted for the new intakes, while the remaining 51 minors came from files opened in previous years. All were handled in situations of family conflict, according to the annual activity report from the Department of Childhood and Adolescence.
Activity figures showed 120 tutored visits, 532 supervised visits, and 124 handovers between parents. No accompaniment cases were logged.
The service aims to address and prevent conflicts in family relationships, particularly around visitation schedules for children and adolescents with their parents. It provides a safe space for family meetings, including tutored, supervised, or handover arrangements.
Separate data from the Specialized Family Foster Care Service, which assesses, guides, advises, and monitors foster families and placed children, indicated three new placements in extended family and one in non-relative family during 2025. Overall, 36 minors were in foster care: 30 with extended family and six with non-relatives. This total marked a 7.7% drop from 2024.
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