This procedure aims to monitor the manner of growth and care of the child with parents working abroad, as well as those who have returned to the country after a period of living abroad with their parents for more than one year.

Thus, the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance through the Child Protection Office annually requests, in the last quarter of the year, from the educational institutions operating in the municipality of Sibiu data and information regarding children in the following situations:

a) children with both parents working abroad;
  b) children with the single supporting parent working abroad;
  c) children with one parent working abroad;
  d) children who returned to the country after a period of living abroad with their parents for more than one year.
  The educational institution is obliged to send the nominal list of children in the situations provided above within at most 15 calendar days from the request. The list will include the child's name and surname, the parents' names and surnames or, as the case may be, the parent’s name and surname, and their home address.
  After receiving the data, the representatives of the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance are obligated to visit the address where the children in the situations provided above are being cared for. The person who is in charge of raising and caring for a child with a parent/parents working abroad is obliged to provide the Directorate of Social Assistance with all the data and information they have regarding the address where the parents can be contacted abroad and to prove that they keep in touch with them.
Also, the parent who exercises sole parental authority or with whom the child resides, who is about to leave to work abroad, and who lives in the municipality of Sibiu, is required to notify this intention to the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance at least 40 days before leaving the country.
  The notification will mandatorily include the appointment of the person who will care for the child during the parents' or guardian’s absence, as the case may be.
  Also, the parent who exercises sole parental authority or with whom the child lived, who is working abroad, has the obligation to immediately send to the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance in the locality where the child is, the notification regarding the appointment of the person who will take care of the child during their absence.

In order to support families in raising and caring for children with parents working abroad, the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance through the Child Protection Office fulfills the following duties:

  a) monitors the maintenance of personal relationships between children and the parents who are working abroad;

  b) organizes parental education programs intended for the parent who takes care of the child after the other parent leaves to work abroad, or for persons appointed to care for children whose parents are working abroad, as well as for those who have returned to the country after a period of living abroad with parents for more than one year;

  c) organizes quarterly meetings or as often as necessary with those who are responsible for raising and caring for the children, as well as with the parent who is responsible for raising and caring for the child after the second parent leaves to work abroad;

  d) facilitates and supports the maintenance of permanent contact between the representatives of the school attended by the child and the person entrusted by the parents with the child’s care;

  e) encourages the parent or, as the case may be, the person entrusted with the child’s care and teachers to establish learning agreements, appropriate to their needs, explicitly including the goals, expectations, and responsibilities of the school and the family;

  f) supports the parent or, as the case may be, the person entrusted with the child’s care in using counseling methods that facilitate family communication, problem-solving, etc.