activity was set up within the People’s Advocate, exclusively for the defence and promotion of children’s rights, coordinated by a deputy, the Children’s Advocate, whose attributions for the specific mandate of the protection and promotion of children’s rights include the performance of spot control visits, ex officio or upon request, together with the representatives of the National Prevention Mechanism for torture in detention places, to the educational or detention centres where minors execute the freedom-depriving measures stipulated by Law no. 286/2009, as subsequently amended and supplemented, on the criminal liability of minor individuals, to persons in charge with supervising and guiding minors who are executing non-freedom-depriving measures stipulated by Law no. 286/2009, as subsequently amended and supplemented, on the criminal liability of minors , to placement centres, family residences, mother care support centres where minors are placed as a special measure for protection stipulated by Law no. 272/2004, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, to their extended family, as well as paediatrics hospitals. In this context, in 2018, the Field regarding prevention of torture undertook visits in cooperation with representatives of the Child’s Advocate, i.e. in The Residential Centre for the Recovery and Rehabilitation of Children with Behavioural Disorders no. 5 of Beceni, Buzau county; the “Tandarica” Complex of Services for the Recovery of Children with Slight and Average Neuro-psychological Disabilities, Cluj county; the “Micul Rotterdam” Care Centre, Constanta county; the "Constantin Gorgos” Titan Psychiatric Hospital, Bucharest; the Specialized Care Centre for Children with Disabilities Less than Three Years Old, Slobozia, Ialomita County; the “Sf. Andrei” Care Centre of Craiova. ►As for the staff of the field regarding prevention of torture in detention places, currently, besides the People’s Advocate deputy who coordinates the field regarding prevention of torture in detention places, the Central Structure of the field regarding prevention of torture in detention places includes 16 employees and 6 employees respectively (4 legal professionals and 2 specialists - psychologist and social worker), while local centres have 8 employees (3 legal professionals, 2 13