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Gate Keeping at National and Local Level

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CHILD’S RIGHTS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

The local public administration authorities

Municipalities, towns and communes

The social assistance public service (SPAS)

Monitors the situation of the children residing on its territory as well as the way their rights are respected

Accomplishes all the necessary activities in order to prevent the separation of the child from his/her family

- elaborates service plans according to the specific situations

- have the obligation to organize day care services (in order to prevent separation)

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Gate Keeping at National and Sub National Level

CHILD’S RIGHTS AT THE COUNTY LEVEL

General Direction of social assistance

and child protection

The General Direction of social assistance and child

protection (DGASPC) performs a complementary activity to the

one carried on by the SPAS: if after granting all the services and

allowances foreseen in the service plan, it comes to the

conclusion that the child can no longer remain with his/her

parents, SPAS will notify the DGASPC, in order to evaluate the

case and provide for specialised services, and eventually grant a

special protection measure for the child.

- residential type services

- family type services

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Gate Keeping at National and Sub National Level

CHILD’S RIGHTS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL

The main central public authorities with attribution in setting

up and ensuring that the legislation within this field is respected

Are the following:

The National Authority for the Protection of Child’s Rights (NAPCR)

The Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA)

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Gate Keeping at National and Sub National Level

National Authority for the Protection of

Child’s Rights (NAPCR)

The National Authority for the Protection of Child’s Rights

(NAPCR) is organised and functions as a specialized body

of the public central administration, providing on the

Romanian territory the respect of all the children rights by

intervening, according to the law in the administrative and

judicial procedures concerning the respect and promotion

of children rights.

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Gate Keeping at National and Sub National Level

National Authority for the Protection of

Children Rights (NAPCR)

Other central public administration authorities with

responsibilities in what the respect and promotion of children

rights are concerned, within their activity field, are the following:

– The Ministry of Labour, Family and equality of Chances; – The Ministry of Education and Research;– The Ministry of Public Health;– The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administrative Reform;– The Ministry of External Affairs;– The Ministry of Culture and Cults;– The Ministry of Justice;– The Ombudsman;– The National Council for Combating the Discrimination.

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INSTITUTIONAL ORGANISATION

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Gate Keeping at National and Sub National Level

I. QUALITATIVE EVALUATION – RESPECTING THE QUALITY STANDARDS

II. QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION – SOCIAL INDICATORS DATA COLLECTION

GATE KEEPING AND MONITORING ACTIVITY

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I. QUALITATIVE EVALUATION – RESPECTING THE QUALITY STANDARDS

NAPCR

- Inspects the way public or private authorities respects the quality standards.

- Issues the functioning license for the services destined to prevent the separation of the child from his/her family, as well as the special protection services destined to the situations when the child is temporarily or definitive missing the protection from the parents.

- The functioning license is released based on the complying with all standards corresponding to the services, standards which are elaborated by the NAPCR.

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• Starting from the children rights as they are mentioned in the CRC, the indicators used by the UNO Committee as well as the problems Romania is confronting today with, we have tried to identify the indicators which were not collected untill now in any of the central institutions. Those indicators lies at the very base of the new instrument of data collection – The MONITORING FICHE

• This instrument is transmitted to the DGASPC that, in their turn collect the data at the local level, and after that transmit it to the NAPCR.

GATE KEEPING AND MONITORING ACTIVITY

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DGASPC

LOCAL LEVEL

PUBLIC SERVICES OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

Local levelprevention

NAPCR

MONITORING FICHE

DGASPC

Local levelPrevention and

special protection

DATA COLLECTION

I.Data analysisII Standards elaboration and revision III Elaboration of policies and standards

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BIRTH REGISTRATION

• Children whose birth registration is made after the legal term

o Children with both parents registered in the birth certificate,

o Children with only one parent registered in the birth certificate

o Children with no parent mentioned in the birth certificate

• Details provided depending on the moment when the birth declaration was made

SPARE TIME AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIESo Public playgrounds set up by the local town-hallso Private playgrounds

EXAMPLES OF DATA COLLECTION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

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The separation causes for the children within the Special Protection System

o Parents death o Missing of the parents o Parents whose parental rights were withdrawn o Poverty o Abuse and Neglect o Child with Disability o Parents with disabilities o Others

EXAMPLES OF DATA COLECTED AT THE DGASPC LEVEL

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HEALTH AND WELFARE

• The number of children with disabilities • Plans of services • The educational form attended

o Mainstream education o Special education o Special integrated education o Individualo Groupo Compact class o Other situations

EXAMPLES OF DATA COLLECTED AT THE DGASPC LEVEL

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CMTIS = informatic system for keeping the evidence of the children existing within the child special protection system, coordinated through a server existing at the NAPCR level.

Each DGASPC has 4 computers offered by the NAPCR where the data concerning the children within the special protection system is introduced by the users who have received a prior agreement (user name and access password) from the NAPCR.

It consists of three modules:

Child – has all the data concerning the active cases found within the evidence of DGASPC – temporarily separated from their parents.

Personal – keeps the information concerning the hired personnel within the child special protection system.

Financial – keeps all the financial data, such as expenses related to the child rights, personnel expenses, utilities, the units themselves, etc. This module is under implementation.

Child Monitoring and Tracking Information System - CMTIS

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INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CHILD AVAILABLE IN CMTIS

Child identification data Health information School situation   Legal situation   Decisions and other administrative decisions Services offered to the child Child situation Final objective   Data concerning the persons the child relates to History of the child