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The Mures Child’s Rights Protection Directorate The objectives of the activity The Mures Social Assistance and Care for Adults Objectives of the social assistance and care activity
The child’s care in Romania
The
central body for the child’s protection is The National Authority for
the Child’s Rights Protection and the Romanian Office for Adoption
within the Romanian Government which monitors, coordinates from a
professional point of view and gives financial support to the programs
concerning the child’s protection activity, supervises the respecting
of the international and national legislation in the domain by the
Specialized Public Services for the Child’s Rights Protection, directly
coordinates the international adoptions (currently suspended). The
relations between the National Authority and the Specialized Public
Services are those of collaboration.
The Mures Child’s Rights Protection Directorate
The Mures Child’s Rights Protection Directorate is a specialized organ in the child’s rights protection. It
has been founded on the basis of the Decision no. 57 from December 16th
, 2004 of the Council of the County of Targu Mures. It performs its
activity as an institution of public interest having a juridical
personality under the Council of the County of Targu Mures. The
activity of the directorate is coordinated by the President of the
County Council and by the General Secretary of the County Council who
is also the president of the Committee for the Child’s Protection and
of the Managing College. The Committee is composed of 7 members who
meet monthly in ordinary meetings and whenever need be, in
extraordinary meetings. The protection measure for a child in
difficulty is decided by the committee on the basis of the social
investigations made by the social assistants, of the documents and
discussions with the involved and interested factors in the cause. The
application of the committee’s decision is compulsory.
The objectives of the activity
The
purpose of the Directorate as a specialized public service in the
child’s protection is to put into practice the Regulations of the
Convention of the U.N.O., concerning the child’s protection and of the
government strategy in domain, activity which involves the following
domains:
- The respecting and promotion of each child’s rights. - The assurance of the child’s protection in a placement centre as close as possible of the family environment. -The
assurance of the child’s temporary protection in a placement centre, by
providing the individual protection project with solutions for his
familiar integration or re-integration., -The
creation of the open character of the centre towards the society, its
integration into the community by the organizational way, its
functioning, by the relationships promoted by it., -The
placement centre stuff’s integration into the DGASPC team and their
stimulation for the appliance of the county protection strategy of the
child, -The gradual decrease
of the number of children protected in the placement centre by the
diversification of services for the child’s protection, the stuff’s
information and professional training, -The
assurance of the child’s protection into his natural environment; into
his biological family; family for a temporary protection (placement);
professional maternal assistants; foster family.
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Objectives of the social assistance and protection activity
1. the protection of the adult persons
who because of some economic, physic, psychic or social reasons do not
have the possibility to ensure their social needs, to develop their own
abilities and competences for their social integration.
2. the protection of the handicapped which can be done by: -the
integration into handicapped categories (type and degree), by the
committee for the evaluation of the adult handicapped – the
appliance of some protection measures on the basis of their integration
in concord with their disability degree, by: -the granting of some money services: indemnities or social allowances, -the
assurance of the gratuity for the telecommunication services, the
radio-television subscription, the urban and inter-urban
transportation, according to the legislation in force, -the
management of the personal assistants’ records for the sorely
handicapped, the issuing of the necessary notices for the personal
assistants’ hiring, -the
drafting of a recovery, re-adaptation and social integration program
which should stipulate the necessary medical, educative, professional
and social actions for the disabled person’s recovery, re-adaptation,
training and his integration or social re-integration;
3. the management of the handicapped records, the organization of the disabled persons’ evaluation and re-evaluation.
4. the coordination and control of the performance of social services activity (care, assistance, recovery, rehabilitation) supplied by residential units to the institutionalized disabled persons.
5. the development and diversification of the social services offered by the qualified stuff both at the beneficiary’s residence and at the specialized units of the residential type. 6. collaboration at a professional level with other organizations of
the local public administration and civil organizations whose activity
object represents the social assistance and the disabled persons’
protection.
The adults’ care in Romania is done by the activity of social assistance, which is part of the social protection system
represented by the entire range of institutions and measures by which
the state, the public authorities of the local administration and the
civil society ensure: -the prevention, -the limitation, -the
removal of the temporary or permanent effects of some situations which
can cause some persons’ marginalization or social exclusion.
The social assistance and the adults’ protection is realized within a National Social Assistance Project, being drafted by the Ministry of Labor, Social Solidarity and Family
in collaboration with other governmental institutions, county and local
councils as well as with the representatives of the civil society.
The
Social Assistance and Adult Care Directorate having the abbreviation
‘DASPPA’ represents an important component of the Social Assistance
Public Service having the abbreviation ‘ SPAS’, being subordinated at
the county level to the Mures County Council, achieving at this level the social assistance measures in the domain of the lonely, aged, handicapped people’s care as well as of any people in need.
Because
of the fact that a great part of the people addressing to the DASSPA
for the institution of some care measures are people with disabilities,
the activity of the directorate is coordinated by the National
Authority for the Handicapped on the basis of the National Strategy
concerning the care, integration and social inclusion of the
handicapped.
The
Social Assistance and Adult Care Directorate ‘DASPPA’ was founded on
the date of January 1st 2005 according to the decision of the Mures
County Council no. 56/12.16.2004 which generated the foundation of the
County Social Assistance and Child’s Care Directorate having the
abbreviation ‘ DGASPC’ by the union of the County Service of Social
Care and the County Child Protection.
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