This procedure aims to monitor the way children with parents working abroad are raised and cared for, as well as those who have returned to the country after staying abroad with their parents for more than a 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 units operating within the city of Sibiu, data and information regarding children in the following situations:

a) children with both parents working abroad;
  b) children with the sole supporting parent working abroad;
  c) children with one parent working abroad;
  d) children who have returned to the country after staying abroad with their parents for more than a year.
  The educational unit is obligated to send the nominal list of children in the aforementioned situations within no more than 15 calendar days from the request. The list will include the child's full name, the parents' (or parent's, as applicable) full names, and the home address.
  After receiving the data, the representatives of the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance are required to go to the address where the children in these situations are cared for. The person taking care of a child whose parent/parents are working abroad is required to provide the Directorate of Social Assistance with all the data and information they have regarding the address at which the parents abroad can be contacted and to prove that they keep in touch with them.
Also, the parent who exercises sole parental authority or with whom the child lives, who is to leave for work abroad and who lives in the city of Sibiu, is required to notify the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance of this intention at least 40 days before leaving the country.
  The notification must mandatorily include the designation of the person who will take care of the child during the parents’ or guardian's (as appropriate) absence.
  Additionally, the parent who exercises sole parental authority or with whom the child lived, who is working abroad, is required to immediately notify the Sibiu Directorate of Social Assistance from the locality where the child is about the designation of the person who will take care of the child during their absence.

In order to support families in the raising and care of 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 parents who are working abroad;

  b) organizes parental education programs aimed at the parent who is taking care of the child after the other parent leaves for work abroad, as well as the persons designated to care for and raise children with parents working abroad, and those who have returned to the country after staying abroad with their parents for more than a year;

  c) organizes quarterly meetings, or as often as necessary, with persons caring for the children, as well as the parent who is taking care of the child after the second parent leaves for work abroad;

  d) facilitates and supports the maintenance of permanent contact between representatives of the educational unit attended by the child and the person in whose care the child was left by the parents;

  e) encourages the parent, or as appropriate, the person in whose care the child was left, and the teaching staff to establish learning agreements, appropriate to their needs, which should explicitly include the goals, expectations, and responsibilities that pertain to the school and the family;

  f) supports the parent, or as appropriate, the person in whose care the child was left, in using counseling methods that facilitate family communication, problem solving, etc.