This procedure concerns the monitoring of the manner of growth and care of children with parents working abroad, as well as those who have returned to the country after a period of staying abroad with their parents for more than one year.

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

a) children with both parents gone abroad;
  b) children with the sole supporting parent gone abroad;
  c) children with one parent gone abroad;
  d) children who have returned to the country after a period of staying abroad with their parents for more than one year.
  The school unit is obliged to send the nominal list of children in the above-mentioned situations within at most 15 calendar days from request. The list will include the child's name and surname, the name and surname of the parents or, as the case may be, the parent, and the domicile address of the latter.
  After receiving the data, the representatives of the Sibiu Social Assistance Directorate are obliged to go to the address where the children in the above-mentioned situations are cared for. The person responsible for raising and caring for a child with parent/parents working abroad is obliged to provide the Social Assistance Directorate with all the data and information they have regarding the address at which the parents can be contacted abroad and to prove that they keep in touch with them.
At the same time, the parent exercising sole parental authority or with whom the child resides, who is about to go to work abroad, and who lives within Sibiu municipality, has the obligation to notify this intention to the Sibiu Social Assistance Directorate at least 40 days before leaving the country.
  The notification will compulsorily include the appointment of the person responsible for the child's care during the absence of the parents or guardian, as the case may be.
  Also, the parent exercising sole parental authority or with whom the child has lived, who is working abroad, is obliged to immediately send to the Sibiu Social Assistance Directorate from the locality where the child is, the notification regarding the appointment of the person responsible for the care of the child during their absence.

In order to support families for the upbringing and care of children with parents working abroad, the Sibiu Social Assistance Directorate through the Child Protection Office fulfills the following responsibilities:

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

  b) organizes parental education programs for the parent responsible for raising and caring for the child after the other parent goes to work abroad, as well as for the persons appointed to look after and care for children with parents working abroad, and for those who have returned to the country after a period of staying abroad with their parents for more than one year;

  c) organizes quarterly meetings or whenever necessary with persons responsible for raising and caring for children, as well as with the parent responsible for raising and caring for the child after the second parent goes to work abroad;

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

  e) encourages the parent or, as the case may be, the person entrusted with the child's care and the teaching staff to establish learning agreements, appropriate to their needs, explicitly including the goals, expectations, and responsibilities incumbent on both 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.