General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Suceava*

The case management department for children in family-type services – AMP ensures the protection of the child who requires a protection measure that involves the upbringing, care, and education of the child by a professional foster carer, at their home. Professional foster carer (AMP)- a certified individual who, through their activity carried out at their home, ensures the upbringing, care, and education necessary for the harmonious development of the children they receive in placement or custody.

People residing within Suceava county, graduates of vocational school or high school, interested in becoming a foster carer, submit to the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Suceava an application for the evaluation of their capacity, accompanied by the documents mentioned below.

​Certificate- the document issued by the Child Protection Commission, in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance no. 27/2024. The certificate is issued for an indefinite period​ and is approved by CPC every two years.

Placement - the special protection measure of a temporary nature, decided under the conditions of the law

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Residential Service for Adults and Specialized Committees - Specialized Committees Department drafts and issues disability certificates for adults, after their approval in the meetings of the Evaluation Committee for Adults with Disabilities Suceava.

Appeals submitted against these disability certificates are filed at the secretariat of the evaluation committee for persons with disabilities (Residential Service for Adults and Specialized Committees - Specialized Committees Department, within D.G.A.S.P.C. Suceava) or at the ANPDPD registry and may be contested by its holder, within 30 calendar days from the date of communication, to the Superior Committee for the Evaluation of Adults with Disabilities.

In case the appeal is registered at the secretariat of the Evaluation Committee for Persons with Disabilities Suceava, SRACS - CCS sends the appeal, the proof of communication of the disability certificate and the file of the concerned person to the Superior Committee, within 5 working days from registration.

In case the appeal is registered at the Authority's registry, the secretariat of the Superior Committee takes over and registers it in its correspondence register and requests within 5 working days the file of the person from the Evaluation Committee for Persons with Disabilities Suceava. C.E.P.A.H. Suceava, through its secretariat, is obliged to send the documents to the S.C. within 3 working days from the request.

The purpose of the operational procedure is to establish and describe the steps to be followed, the methods of work and the rules to be applied, as well as the responsibilities of the persons involved in the process of ending care within the Case Management Department for children in family-type services

Placing the child with the AMP is a special temporary protection measure established for the child separated from the care of his/her parents, through which the material and moral conditions necessary for his/her harmonious development are ensured.

Termination of care for children placed with a professional maternal assistant is carried out only with prior preparation and under the conditions provided by law. In this regard, the Service specialists, in collaboration with other specialists, offer specialized services: counseling, information, support, preparation of children/young people regarding the termination of services provided to children in placement;

Termination of the special protection measure with the professional maternal assistant occurs in the following cases:

1.Reintegration of the child into the natural family;

2.The young person who has reached the age of 18 and is no longer pursuing any form of education;

3.At the request of the young person who has reached the age of 18, is attending a full-time educational form, but no longer wishes to maintain the special protection measure;

4.The young person who has reached the age of 26;

5.The child has died;

6.Transfer within another social service;

7.Adoption;

8.Marriage;

The admission criteria for adults with disabilities in social services are the following:

- admission to the public residential center is carried out only with the consent of the adult with disabilities, expressed in any form, respecting the principle of Choice and control of person-centered planning and only to the extent that the services provided meet their needs;

- admission is carried out in the public residential center closest to the domicile/residence of the adult with disabilities and which ensures the highest possible level of autonomy in exercising rights and obligations;

- admission is carried out only for a period of up to 24 months, depending on the type of service offered, after which the beneficiary will be deinstitutionalized according to the provisions of Law no. 7/2023, respectively the Guide on accelerating the deinstitutionalization process, provided in annex no. 2 to the National Strategy on preventing the institutionalization of adults with disabilities and accelerating the deinstitutionalization process, for the period 2022 - 2030, approved by Government Decision no. 1.543/2022, in the locality of domicile or residence, at the request or with the consent of the person with disabilities;

- admission is done on the vacant places from the public residential centers, except those provided in art. 5, within the limit of 5% per year, from the total number of beneficiaries to be deinstitutionalized until June 30, 2026, according to the order of the president of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities establishing the objectives associated with key performance indicators, planned at the level of each county/sector of Bucharest municipality.

The purpose of the procedure

The procedure establishes the way of organizing and carrying out the activities of assessment and intervention in cases of abuse, neglect, parental alienation, labor exploitation, as well as the intake and assessment of cases of domestic violence reported by the beneficiary and/or other individuals/legal entities; counseling/informing/guiding victims and/or aggressors, in collaboration with the competent institutions in this field, to specialized services; providing psycho-emotional support to victims of domestic violence.

All reports are registered in the computerized case monitoring system, bear the approval of the general director, the deputy general director for social protection, and are assigned to the head of the service who forwards them to the employee who records them in the service's database, and subsequently are assigned to case managers for the purpose of the initial assessment of the reported situation.

Intake/registration of cases/reports is done at the general registry of the institution, including call report forms/self-reports