Under the aegis of the Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (CDNNyA, for its acronym in Spanish) the National Register for Candidates for Foster Care (RUAGA, for its acronym in Spanish), which "seeks to implement the right of children to have a family and provide to those willing to be parents to become one”. "The report of the Auditor General of the City of Buenos Aires (AGCBA) said that the agency has little staff to carry out these tasks.

To this observation we must add the statement given by the head of the Department that said that there "are not enough human resources, especially because of the increase in awaiting families”. The area is responsible for assessing applicants and making a list, and then the judge may consult in order to find a family that best fits the profile of each child. It also carries out the monitoring process of the family or person having a child prior to adoption.

The report was published in November 2011 on the 2009 period, at the time of the audit (2010), the department had "3 lawyers, 10 social workers, 12 psychologists, and 3 administrative workers" and during 2009 they "performed the assessment work and intake of 343 applicants and 176 follow ups".

On the other hand, CDNNyA has 16 settled Ombudsmen in each of the City of Buenos Aires municipalities. They are responsible for providing advice, guidance, as well as attention from acts that violate the rights of children and also provide surveys and diagnoses in their areas of competence. Its functions are set out in Act 114 of the City and the National Law 26.061 (Comprehensive Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents).

According to the audit, "there is no relationship between the amount of professionals and the amount of people they provide service to”. In this sense, it is explained that the Office of the Commune 2 with 106 cases treated with two technical teams and District 4, with 2,569 cases has only one more person, making a total of three.

As a matter a fact, the Office of District 4 (La Boca-Barracas) is the one with more hospital institutions, as it has under its orbit two of the three hospitals of the city of Pediatrics, Maternity, and the only Children’s Hospital and Adolescent Mental Health Institution. The audit states that this feature "has an impact on the number of cases handled," because "when these institutions find that a child’s rights have been violated, and the child is from another jurisdiction, the child is attended in this commune, until the correct jurisdiction intervenes".

Furthermore, the AGCBA noted that although the teams must be made up of two promoters of rights (social worker, a psychologist, and a lawyer), "the promoters were not designated" as established by Law 114. In Commune 3 (of Once) in 2009 nine professionals resigned, and in October of 2010 another six left the institution. This "high turnover" the watchdog explains, "has consequences in the treatment of cases and their follow-up" and "ineffective and inefficient management of cases having to continually incorporate and train new employees."

Infraestructura

Another observation made by the auditing body is that in Communes 3 and 4 the "infrastructure is inadequate to allow professionals to conduct interviews while protecting the privacy and confidentiality." Moreover, in the case of Commune 3, because it is located in the building of the Centre for Management and Participation, "it is subject to space requirements for the development of the activities of the latter."

Registration and Monitoring of Ngo’s

The Council in turn must keep records and monitor all non-governmental organizations working with children and adolescents. Per month, about 50 homes, day centers, and therapeutic communities are visited, weighting households that have conflicts; they may be building, institutional, professional interventions or complaints of irregularities and issues.

The survey of this documentation in the files of registered organizations (56 folders), the Audit ensures that "in 100% of the cases there were no agreements between governmental and non-governmental organizations", as established by article No. 77 of Law No. 114.

Finally, AGCBA said that the 24 people within assessment teams, recording, and monitoring (including psychologists, social workers, anthropologists, and sociologists), they "are not sufficient to cover the universe of 200 NGO’s."