Children
Doctors and paediatricians in the Basque Country warn of the serious risks posed by screens and ask not to have mobile phones in classrooms
Along with the Raise Your Head movement, doctors and pediatricians have released a joint report for the first time analysing the negative impact of prolonged exposure to screens on children, including mental health, sleep disorders, anxiety, and obesity, vision problems, and language retardation.
Girls suffer "marginalization" in video games and many "hide their identity," according to a study by the University of Deusto
According to the study, boys prefer wrestling and sports video games, and girls consume more content related to image and dance.
Suicide attempts by children under the age of 14 in Spain have increased by 22% annually
Paediatric emergency services have warned of a significant increase in child mental health problems, and in some hospitals these cases have doubled in less than a decade.
Adults with high intellectual abilities and the myth of success
Do adults with a lot of intelligence really have a simpler life? Psychologist Asier Arrieta and the writer Haizea Lopez, diagnosed as adults, have described a multifaceted reality, because living with a lot of potential doesn't always make life easier because of late diagnosis, self-demanding, anxiety and the high expectations of those around us.
€100,000 has been reserved for the assistance of children of victims of male violence in the Basque Country
8 children of women killed by male violence against women in 2025 have been assisted. The assistance is aimed at children who are minors at the time of the mother's death and can be applied for until the age of 21.
The European Union has banned sexualised images created with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence systems whose sole purpose is to create both sexualized images and content related to child sexual abuse will be banned from 2 December 2026. The measure has been agreed after the hika-mica created by Grok, the AA tool of the X social network.
The students of the dance schools have held a demonstration on the promenade of La Concha
About 1,500 students from different municipalities of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia have attended San Sebastián and danced in the sun, leaving a beautiful image. La Concha has been one of the events organized on the occasion of International Dance Day on Wednesday.
96% of the schools studied in the CSC exceed the NO2 levels recommended by the WHO
Ecologists in Action has measured the level of NO2 nitrogen dioxide in 78 schools in seven municipalities: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Donostia-San Sebastián, Errenteria, Oiartzun, Barakaldo, Bilbao and Erandio. Only three of them respect the 10 micrograms barrier per cubic metre installed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The European Union has a 'technically ready' free age check application to protect minors from harmful online content
The aim is that, by the end of the year at the latest, all Member States should be guaranteed access to the 'app' so that they can have a tool at European level to check the actual age of the user accessing social networks from mobile devices or others.
A man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a minor girl under the guardianship of the Álava Council
The sexual assault occurred when the victim refused to have sexual intercourse with the now detained boy, whom he met last Sunday, April 5, while enjoying leisure time with a friend. After telling one of the educators what had happened, protocols were activated to accompany the girl to a health centre and a complaint was filed against the alleged aggressor.
The Navarre Court has sentenced a professor at the IES Zizur to 180 years' imprisonment for recording 42 women, mostly minors
The defendant took advantage of his status as a teacher and, using the personal data of his underage students, acquired access keys to e-mails and social networks such as Instagram or Snapchat, as well as private files and photos of students.
San Sebastian City Council, neighbors and families together have asked the government to build a public institute in Aiete
In this neighbourhood of Donostia-San Sebastián, there are more than 3000 people between the ages of 0 and 19. Now, after studying primary school, they are forced to leave the neighbourhood. Once approved by the City Council, the motion will be forwarded to the Basque Parliament and the Basque Government for inclusion in next year's budgets.
Open the registration deadline for the Haurreskolak Consortium for students aged 0-2 with almost 9,000 places
Families may submit their application, both online and face-to-face, at any school on the Haurreskolak public network, in order of priority, until 4 May, the final lists of which will be published on 26 June.
Justice has convicted the insurance company of the capture of Aulestin Iurgi Beraza in 2020
The child's parents have expressed their pain and disagreement with the resolution, which "is by no means sufficient in terms of scope or reasoning", but have refused to appeal the sentence out of respect for judicial decisions, but also because of the "need to put an end to a long, painful and emotionally destructive process".
Creation of HaurSarea, Osakidetza's comprehensive network for complex cronicity and paediatric palliative care
The aim is to provide a more orderly, equitable and effective response to this reality, with "continuous assistance" adapted to the different stages of the disease and the complexity of each minor, for which there will be multidisciplinary teams of paediatricians, paediatric nurses, social workers and psychologists, and 24/7 support.
The Spanish Government will approve a law in May banning networks for children under 16 years of age
The minimum age of access to social media and the minimum age of access to social media content will be raised to 16.
There were 6,700 fewer children enrolled in 2024-25 than in the previous year in Children's and Primary Education
According to the Eustat survey, the increase in Vocational Training enrolments is remarkable, with 2,842 more people enrolled than in the previous year, 6.1% more, the largest increase in the last 15 years.
A massive protest in Eibar to denounce the lack of places in children's schools
Dozens of families have protested loudly this Thursday in Unzaga Square in Eibar to denounce the lack of sufficient places in the children's schools in the town.
The Bizkaia Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating the employees of a children's school in Getxo
The BBK Foundation has confirmed that the prosecution has opened proceedings for a children's school in Romo.
A man has been arrested in Vitoria-Gasteiz while his children were driving in his car for driving at 130 km/h and giving positive cocaine
The 37-year-old man escaped from a gas station, driving a few kilometres recklessly, without a driver's license, until he lost control of the vehicle and hit several parked cars and then tried to flee the agents by taking refuge in a portal.