The creation of these facilities, in all the provinces of Spain, is contemplated in the Organic Law of Integral Guarantee of Sexual Freedom.
A total of six communities have set up at least one 24-hour comprehensive care centre for victims of sexual violence. Financed by the Ministry of Equality through the Next Generation funds of the EU’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, these regional resources must be operational by the end of 2024.
The Ministry of Equality has been holding regular technical meetings with the Autonomous Communities since 2022, in which it provides them with the necessary advice and support for the implementation of these resources.
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A total of six autonomous regions have at least one sexual violence care centre
Thus, Cantabria already has a centre in Santander, since October 2023. For its part, the Basque Country has had one in Bilbao since December last year and one in Vitoria, which opened last April. Murcia opened a centre in the capital in December 2023. Navarra has had a centre in Pamplona since April. In the same month, those in Melilla and Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha) opened.
In addition, over the coming summer, a centre is expected to open in Madrid; another in San Sebastian (Basque Country); Teruel and Huesca, in Aragon; Toledo and Guadalajara, in Castilla-La Mancha; Alicante and Valencia in the Region of Valencia and five centres in Galicia (two centres in A Coruña, one in Lugo, one in Ourense and one in Pontevedra).
The centres in the remaining provinces are expected to open their doors during the fourth quarter: Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca and Ciudad Real); Aragón (Zaragoza); Comunitat Valenciana (Castellón); La Rioja (Logroño); nine centres, one in each provincial capital of Castilla y León; Extremadura (Cáceres, Badajoz, Mérida and Plasencia); the four provincial capitals of Catalonia; the eight provincial capitals of Andalusia; the Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Menorca); Asturias (Oviedo); the Canary Islands (Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Gran Canaria) and Ceuta.
The creation of these facilities is contemplated in the Organic Law of Integral Guarantee of Sexual Freedom. It includes them as public interdisciplinary services of permanent care, which offer crisis assistance for victims of sexual violence, their families and people around them. Thus, they provide psychological, legal and social care and include accompaniment and information by telephone and in person 24 hours a day, every day of the year.