During this day, the National Youth Social Reintegration Service was launched, a new institution that seeks to completely replace the National Service for Minors, better known as Sename, in January 2026.
To this end, it was divided into two areas: the Specialized Protection Service for Children and Adolescents, under the Ministry of Social Development, and the National Youth Social Reintegration Service, under the Ministry of Justice.
It should be noted that Sename is 43 years old, serving a total of 83,000 young people, mostly male. According to the deputy director of the Service, Rachid Alay, “it was created to provide support that had to do with childhood and adolescence and comes to fill those gaps.” The challenges of progressive substitution are “working to deliver all the necessary tools so that this service, by 2026, disappears,” added Alay.
the new service
Regarding the characteristics of the new service, it will be much more specialized, with a high technical level, and its emphasis will be on intersectorality and the reintegration of young people. That is why the director of the implementation of the Reintegration Service, Rocío Faúndez, assured that the new institution will have an increase in staff and a higher salary, as well as new deals between the State and those who provide the service, those who no longer they will be financed through the subsidy, but through public purchases.
As a result of the same, Faúndez announced that it will aim “that all those who are in the centers are dedicated entirely to the young people, not to paperwork”, guaranteeing “that each one of the people who work with the young people adjusts to a unique intervention model.
In addition, it is expected that there will be prosecutors, judges and defenders trained in the matter. The response of the State as a whole will also be strengthened to ensure access to health, education and labor insertion benefits and other matters from an action plan and a national policy on the matter.
For his part, the Minister of Justice, Luís Cordero, stressed that “it is not an institutional change, but a change in the public management model in terms of reinsertion”, and that “it rests on intersectoral policy; second, it presupposes high specialization, especially in justice (…) and also reintegration service”.
