The professional foster carer is the natural person, certified in accordance with the law, who, through the activity carried out at their own home, ensures the growth, care, and education necessary for the harmonious development of the children they receive in foster care.

Persons residing within the administrative area of Teleorman County, interested in becoming a foster carer, will submit to the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Teleorman a request for the evaluation of their capacity, accompanied by the documents mentioned below. The certificate is issued by the Child Protection Commission, with a validity of 3 years.

Only persons who meet the following conditions can be certified as professional foster carers:

• have full legal capacity;
• through their behavior in society, state of health and psychological profile, provide guarantees for the proper fulfillment of the obligations incumbent upon a parent, regarding the upbringing, care, and education of their own children;
• have at their disposal a dwelling that covers the needs for food preparation, hygiene, education, and rest for its users, including those of the children to be received in foster care or custody;
• have completed the professional training courses organized by the specialized public service for child protection or the authorized private body that conducts the assessment for granting the professional foster carer certificate.

Cannot be a professional foster carer:

• a person who has been convicted by a final court decision, for committing an intentional crime;
• a parent deprived of parental rights or whose child has been declared abandoned by a final court decision;
• a person who suffers from infectious chronic diseases.

A person engaged in salaried work may become a professional foster carer only on the condition of terminating the individual employment contract under which the respective salaried activity is carried out.