26 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2016/2242(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the Youth Guarantee (YG) is a drive for policy change, it pushes public authorities to be more innovative and to focus increasingly on the transitions between education and work and the transitions between jobs; it has an important role in supporting measures to provide unemployed young people with the skills and experience needed to engage in employment and to become entrepreneurs, and also provides an opportunity to address skills mismatch;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas from a quantitative perspective, the take-up of the Youth Guarantee (YG) is encouraging in some Member States but implementation of integration services listed under the YG is often only partial and dependent on the existing capacity and efficiency of public employment services (PES); whereas Member States should continue their efforts to strengthen and reform their PES;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the important role of education and career guidance in preparing young people with the work ethics and skills needed by the job market; highlights the need to build trust between young people and public institutions providing career guidance, such as Public Employment Services; encourages investments in projects that strengthen the cooperation between education providers and Public Employment Services;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the ECA's report shows that progress have been made in the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and that some results have been achieved; whereas, however, the current situation does not reflect the expectations created by the introduction of the Youth Guarantee, i.e. to ensure that all NEETs receive, within four months, a quality offer of training or employment;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Indicates that measures supported by the YG also need to address structural challenges which young people not in education, employment or training (NEETS) face so as to ensure that they have a long-term impact; additional financial commitments by Member States are needed in the national budgets to address these structural challenges;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that the development of one-stop-shops should be supported to increase the positive impact of the Youth Guarantee by ensuring that all services and guidance are available for young people at one location;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas there is a serious problem related with the so-called "skill mismatch", defined as a mismatch between candidates' skills and labour market requirements; whereas it would be useful to create a network in order to correct the dysfunctions of current national training systems;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the composition of the NEET population ( young people aged between 15 and 24 years old) is not uniform across the EU Member States, and that a more accurate definition of NEET would be fundamental;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the Youth Guarantee has to evaluate the quality of the Youth Guarantee offers; Highlights the need to define a quality framework with quality standards for the Youth Guarantee offers;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that effective mechanisms to discuss and resolve difficulties experienced when implementing YG schemes are needed, together with a strong commitment by the Member States to implement the scope of the YG in full, including partnership-building, ensuring an effective outreach, enabling skills enhancement and putting in place proper evaluation structures;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Notes that lack of visibility of the scheme can result in difficulty to reach out all young people; recommends to increase the possibility to fund local campaigns organised with all relevant local partners, including youth organisations, and support the development of platforms for young people to register to the scheme; recommends that the information related to the Youth Guarantee is accessible and understandable for everyone;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls for a diversification of funding channels involving local, regional and national levels to better reach out to all young people;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes extending the age limit of the Youth Guarantee eligibility to 29 for the countries that have requested this;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the manner in which Member States implement schemes approved under the YG and to put in place a comprehensivetransparent, comprehensive and open-data monitoring system that covers cost efficiency, structural reforms and measures targeting individuals;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the need of tailoring the measures to local context needs in order to increase their impact, for example through closer involvement of local employers' representatives, local training providers and local authorities;Calls for a diversification of funding channels involving local, regional and national levels to better reach out to all NEETs;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Notes that lack of visibility of the scheme can result in difficulty to reach out all young people;Recommends to increase the possibility to fund local campaigns organised with all local partners, including youth organisations, and support the development of platforms for young people to register to the scheme;Recommends that the information related to the Youth Guarantee is accessible and understandable for everyone;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with regret that most Member States have not established a definition of a ‘'quality offer’'; urges the Member States to use the existing networks to work on the development of commonly agreed characteristics of this concept based on an offer matching the participant's qualification level, profile, labour market needs, offering opportunities for work that allows them to earn a living income, social protection and prospects for development, and leading to sustainable, well-matched, integration in the labour market; welcomes the ECA’'s recommendation in its Special report No 5/2017 that more attention needs to be paid to improving the quality of offers;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to propose, in collaboration of EMCO, standards for quality criteria for offers to be made under the YG;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that most issues causing delays to implementation of the YEI by the Member States are of a procedural and structural nature; calls on the MS concerned to continue making efforts to improve its implementation; additional financial commitments by MS are needed in the national budgets to address these structural challenges;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the full potential of exchanging best practices among Member States has not yet been realised; notes in this respect the importance of mutual learning aimed at the activation of the most vulnerable groups; Calls on the Commission to identify and diffuse good practices in monitoring and reporting based on its overview of the existing systems across Member States;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the significant efforts made by the Member States to implement the YG; observes, however, that most reforms have not yet been fully implemented, in particular in the forging of partnerships with social partners and young people in the design, implementation and assessment of the measures within the YG and in supporting those facing multiple barriers; concludes that considerable efforts and financial resources are needed in the long term to achieve the YG objectives;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to bind budget allocations to objective criteria and to design the individual path of the candidate through subjective criteria, giving to national public employment services the minimum flexibility they need to adjust profiling models; believes that profiling young unemployed should be the first step for a full integration and an anticipatory use of different sources of available data, in order to promote the systematic identification of most disadvantaged people;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the provision of follow-up data to assess the long-term sustainability of outcomes; Calls on the Member States to ensure more transparency in the data collection, taking into account gender perspective, according to harmonized procedures in order to obtain consistent data in all the Member States; for this purpose it would be appropriate to establish a transparent mechanism for matching actions by different financial instruments;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring and reporting systems in order to regularly provide quality data to facilitate the development of more evidence-based youth policies, in particular, the capacity to follow-up the participants that exit the Youth Guarantee in order to reduce the number of unknown exits to the extent possible;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the individual situation of young people leaving the Youth Guarantee schemes at specific intervals of 6, 12 and 18 months in order to promote the sustainable integration of NEET into the labour market;