The process of deinstitutionalisation (DI) seems to have been demoted on the list of priorities by the Romanian government lately. Such change of focus and the fact that the government did not include children on the agenda for the 2019 EU presidency presents a challenge for a continued national reform on deinstitutionalisation. In 2018, there were still 185 institutions in Romania housing 6,632 children. 2,997 children with disabilities were living in 81 institutions for children with disabilities in Romania. The majority of children in out-of-home care were placed in family based care, including 18,317 children in foster care and 18,437 children in kinship care.
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