were not decorated or did not have enough furniture and customized items); the minors did not benefit from their own area for the storage of clothing and personal items (the Ciresarii Emergency Placement Centre, district 2, Bucharest; the Residential Centre for Children with Severe Disabilities the Community Services Complex of Oltenita, Calarasi county; the Emergency Admission Centre for Boys of district 4, Bucharest). Regarding the established aspects, the People’s Advocate recommended that the management of the Centre should replace the damaged furniture or purchase new beds with a view to replacing old and worn ones or which did not meet the beneficiaries’ height. The answer provided by the visited units stipulated that actions were taken with a view to fulfilling the recommendations, with internal notes/reports to DGASPC (the Residential Centre for Children with Severe Disabilities, the Community Services Complex of Oltenita, Călărași county), but also the fact that old furniture was replaced (the Emergency Admission Centre for Boys of district 4, Bucharest). ● improper hygiene was found in some sanitary facilities; damaged sanitary items; non-functional showers, with no taps or showerheads, and some of them were not equipped with separating curtains to ensure the beneficiaries’ privacy; video surveillance cameras were not functional, based on the statement of Centre representatives; an insufficient number of toilets, basins and showers (the Ciresarii Emergency Care Centre, district 2, Bucharest; the Residential Centre for Children with Severe Disabilities, the Community Services Complex of Oltenita, Calarasi county; the “Casa Sperantei” Association of Campina, Prahova county; the “Micul Rotterdam” Placement Centre of Constanta, Constanta county). The People’s Advocate recommended that the management of the Centre should meet specific quality standards, i.e. to provide toilets, basins and showers for no more than 6 beneficiaries each, to replace the faulty technical and sanitary facilities and to supplement missing ones, as well as arrange separating curtains to ensure the beneficiaries’ privacy in the shower, pay more attention to hygiene guidelines and regularly ventilate sanitary facilities, as well as remove video surveillance cameras. The answer provided by the visited units informed that the faults were solved (the “Micul Rotterdam” Placement Centre of Constanta, Constanta county) or actions 156