skills and ensure the transition to the assumption of an active and functional role in the society; a case officer is appointed in educational centres and detention centres for each admitted individual, who monitors the admitted persons during the execution of the educational measure, following the enforcement of a suitable treatment, based on individual specificities and with the responsible use of the resources of each minor person; • as for preventing the separation of children from families and reducing the number of children who are deprived from freedom in institutions, the Hope and Homes for Children Foundation (HHC) was indicated as a good practice example by the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption; the foundation, which has collaborated with central and local authorities for the reform of the child protection system (county councils, local councils, public child protection services) since its establishment, has focused on the closure of old style institutions, and on the replacement of the institutional child protection system with a system based on the family concept; in the last 17 years (the programme for preventing child separation from the family was initiated in 2001), HHC Romania managed to close 55 old style child protection institutions and support 28,436 children to stay with their families. ► the information requested by the General Secretariat of the Senate was sent, regarding visits performed in placement centres in 2017 by the Field regarding prevention of torture in detention places and by the representatives of the Field regarding the protection and promotion of children rights. ►Thethe People’s Advocate and the deputy of the People’s Advocate who coordinates the activity of the Field regarding prevention of torture met with the chairman of the National Council of Elderly People, Mr PredaNedelcu, and discussions were held on the collaboration with the fields of activity of the People’s Advocate Institution, especially the protection of the rights of elderly people in care centres for elderly people. ►The field regarding prevention of torture in detention places drew up the component of the answer sent by the People’s Advocate Institution so as to draw up its accreditation file with the United Nations. 32