protection measure at the “Casa Sperantei” Association, their representatives were unable to provide information on the regular monitoring of beneficiaries during their stay abroad, such as their health, the activities and programme during summer, the existence of any personal issues, with no precise monitoring and knowledge of their date of return at the centre. Some personal records included statements of the management of the Centre who approved the beneficiary’s travel abroad to undertake studies, also mentioning the period - usually 6 months. Such statements were renewed at the expiry of each period. Divergences were found between the consulted documents, the statements of the beneficiaries, of the representatives of the centre and the actual situation. Thus, several beneficiaries had their latest Detailed Assessment Reports drawn up in March 2018; according to the documents provided based on their phone statements, the beneficiary had been abroad since 2017 and had not come back to Romania, so the assessment report was drawn up in the beneficiary’s absence. Since the received information was not enough and not clear, the General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection (DGASPC) of Prahova county was asked to provide additional documents, which showed the following: Some plans of intervention, drawn up after the visit of the representatives of the Field regarding prevention of torture in detention places, involved the head teacher from the Italian school and the host family, but they had not signed the individual intervention plan, so they were not aware of it. Also pursuant to the visit and the requests to DGASPC Prahova, affidavits of the families where some children lived were sent, stipulating that the minors lived with them, that they had completed their primary school cycles and that they would cover all living expenditure (education, transportation, health, etc.). Brief descriptions from Italian psychologists (of August 2018) were added, generally stipulating that the “minors were integrated at a family, school and social level”. Since: the beneficiaries were under a placement measure at the “Casa Sperantei” Association of Campina and benefitted from social services within DGASPC Prahova, but some of them did not go back to the country for at least 12 months; individual protection plans, affidavits of the host families, psychological descriptions were drawn up pursuant to the visit and upon request of the visit, 142