National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights and Adoption*

The maternal assistant is the natural person, certified under the conditions of Government Ordinance no. 27/2024, regarding the conditions for obtaining the certificate, the certification procedure and the status of the maternal assistant, with subsequent amendments and completions, employed by the general directorate of social assistance and child protection, who provides at his/her home or, as the case may be, at his/her residence the upbringing, care, and education of the child during the application of the special protection measure of placement, emergency placement for the child separated, temporarily or permanently, from his/her parents, or, as the case may be, during the respite period of another maternal assistant.
Persons interested in becoming a maternal assistant (EU citizens) submit to the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection of the county/sector of Bucharest municipality in whose territory they have their domicile or, as the case may be, residence, an application for the assessment of their capacity, accompanied by the documents mentioned below. The certificate is issued by the Child Protection Commission of the county/sector of domicile or, as the case may be, residence.