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In 2019 there were cases when some authorities and public institutions did not
provide the necessary support to the People's Advocate institution, which resulted in
exceeding the term of resolving the files: Moara Town Hall, Suceava County, Stăuceni Town
Hall, Botosani County, Emergency County Hospital "Sfântul Ioan cel Nou" Suceava, Bosanci
Town Hall, Botosani County.
Proposals for legislative changes:
- Art. 4 paragraph (1) of Law no. 35/2007 regarding the increase of the security in the
educational establishments provides as follows: The county councils, the General Council of
the Municipality of Bucharest and the local councils allocate, within the approved budgets,
financial resources necessary for the realization of the fences, ensuring the security of the
buildings of the educational units (...).
The phrase "within the approved budgets" limits the possibility of allocating even
minimal funds for increasing security in educational establishments (for example, ensuring
guard), since local authorities that do not have sufficient financial resources necessary for their
proper functioning will not make efforts to allocate the money to implement measures to
increase safety in school units in local communities. Solution: delete the phrase "within the
approved budgets" and identify the financial resources from the general budget to cover these
expenses;
- creating the legal framework that will reduce the existing ratio of 1/800, representing
a school psychologist to 800 students. Purpose: to reduce cases of violence in schools and to
provide the optimum framework for psychological counseling of students in various
educational units;
- by the Government Decision no. 502/2017 regarding the organization and
functioning of the commission for child protection, was repealed the Government Decision
no. 1437/2004 regarding the organization and the methodology of operation of the
commission for child protection, after this modification the representative of the territorial
police inspectorate no longer being member in the commission for child protection,
specialized body, without legal personality, of the county council, respectively of the local
council of the Bucharest Municipality, with decision-making activity in the matter of
protecting and promoting the rights of the child.
The commission for child protection remained with seven members, as provided by
the old regulations, but its composition has changed as follows: the representative of the
territorial police inspectorate is no longer member, and was added as member a new
representative of the private bodies accredited, proposed by the secretary of the county,
respectively of the Bucharest Municipality, so that at this moment, according to Art. 3
paragraph (1) letter f) the commission for child protection operates with two representatives
of the accredited private bodies, proposed by the county secretary, respectively of the
Bucharest Municipality – members. Solution: the need to promote a normative act to create
the legal framework for the re-establishment of the membership of a representative belonging
to the territorial police inspectorates, in the child protection commission. This measure could
contribute to a better management of the situation of children predisposed to leave the
residential type centers of the general directorates for social assistance and child protection,
as well as to identify more effective methods of preventing such cases.
● Territorial Office Târgu-Mureș: solved a number of 151 complaints, granted 750
hearings, answered 256 telephone calls through the dispatch service, carried out 97 awareness
raising activities / collaboration with other authorities, proceeded ex officio in 12 cases,
conducted 12 investigations and made 11 recommendations.
PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE
ANNUAL REPORT 2019
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