19 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2014/2237(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)
Citation 28 a (new)
- having regard to the Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage- a study of national policies analysis by the European Network of Independent Experts on Social Inclusion 1 a __________________ 1a Network of Independent Experts on Social Inclusion, Investing in children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage. A study of national policies. Brussels, 2014.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas in its concluding observations on the latest periodic reports of Portugal (2014), Lithuania (2013) and Germany (2014) the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about the rise in the poverty rate and/or the at-risk-of-poverty rate among children due to economic crisis, affecting the enjoyment of many of the rights contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, namely the rights to health, education and social protection and encouraged to ensure that budgetary lines for children are protected even in situation of economic crisis or other emergencies;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. Whereas the upcoming SDGs/post 2015 agenda and its universality provide an opportunity to increase investments in children and their rights;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recommends that Member States increase the effectiveness, quantity, amounts, scope and effectiveness and scope of the social support specifically directed to children, but also to parents (such as unemployment benefits) and to promote labour laws that guarantee social rights and security to families and fight precarious employment;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that Member States implement or enhance universal welfare benefits targeting children as an intrinsic right of the child; underlines the need to adopt comprehensive strategies and policies to support a parent's access to good quality employment and adequate income, access to high quality public services (particularly childcare, education, health, housing, and leisure activities), as well as to strengthen the participation of children and their families in the development, implementation and monitoring of these policies; underlines that universal solutions should be coupled with targeted interventions to support the most vulnerable and marginalised groups of children and adolescents;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to make additional efforts to tackle the root causes of child poverty and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the areas in which children are particularly vulnerable to poverty and develop and implement appropriate remedial strategies; in particular, invites the European Commission and Member States to strengthen the social dimension of the EU 2020 Strategy and Economic and Monetary Union by taking the following actions: - to set a Europe 2020 sub-target on reducing child poverty and social exclusion and to make the reduction of child poverty and social exclusion visible and explicit at all stages of the European Semester, and within each Member States through the set-up of national sub-targets for reducing child poverty or social exclusion, - to integrate an explicit child and youth focus in the 'European Semester', - to ensure any proposed law, policy of budgetary allocation is assessed in terms of its intended or unintended impact on children and their rights;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to refrain from recommending reformulations and cuts in the public services of Member States, from promoting flexible labour relations and the privatisation of public services, which have led unequivocally to the weakening of the social rights of children and to carry out ex-ante and ex-post social impact assessments of macro-economic measures;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Reminds that tackling child poverty requires adopting a life-cycle approach, including breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty risks, that reflects the different needs of early childhood, primary childhood and adolescence; applying a whole-child oriented approach by measuring the number of deprivations each child experiences simultaneously, revealing those most deprived; and measuring not only monetary poverty but also multidimensional deprivations;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges Member States to adopt, implement and monitor plans for alleviating multi-dimensional child poverty, putting the focus on the intrinsic rights of children, and setting targets for reducing child poverty and child social exclusion with an explicit focus/prioritisation on those children living at the highest risks of poverty; reminds the importance for EU Member States to return to at least at pre-crisis levels of real-term expenditure on social protection, health, education and social housing for the benefit of the most disadvantaged children;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recommends that Member States' national budgets contain visible and transparent provisions for cosexpenditure and investments to combat child poverty and to fulfil their duty to protect children; , through harmonized child responsive budgeting practices at the EU and national level, and to fulfil their duty to protect children; calls on Member States to make maximum use of structural fund, in particular the European Social Fund, to implement all three pillars of the 'Investing in Children Recommendation' (adequate income, access to quality services and participation of children), focusing in particular on the most excluded and most affected;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that Member States develop proactive and integrated social policies that prevent poverty and the departureremoval of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty that children are institutionalised;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Recommends that Member States develop and implement integrated child protection systems to protect children against violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect in a way in which all duty-bearers and system components work together across sectors and agencies sharing responsibilities to form a protective and empowering environment for all children;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on EU institutions, EU Agencies, Member State authorities and other stakeholders to develop clear roles, responsibilities, regular dialogue and procedures when children are in need of protection in cross-border situations;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recommends that Member States guarantee all children access to: - free, quality public education at all ages, including early childhood, and establish appropriate teacher-student ratio to reduce educational poverty, including early childhood education and care, formal and non-formal education, and establish appropriate teacher-student ratios along with other indicators of quality of education in school and in the learning environment out of school - childcare regardless of their parent's incomes or employment conditions;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that Member States providemote full school engagement of all children through providing free school materials, meals and school transportation during school hours; , to increase the effectiveness of present public investments in the sector and better combat the intergenerational transmission of poverty
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges Member States to guarantee universal, public, free and quality health care with regard to prevention and primary care, access to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, guaranteeing women the right to sexual and reproductive health by ensuring health care for babies, maternity care and home visits in the pre- and post- natal care period, particularly in the case of premature birth, access to family doctors, dentists and mental health specialists for all children, and integrate these aspects into national and the EU public health strategies;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends that Member States provide the necessary support to ensure the right to culture, sport and leisure for all children, with a focus on ensuring equal access and quality for children in poverty, children in remote and disadvantaged areas, children with disabilities, children with a minority background and migrants;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States, particularly those where social inequalities are greater, to strengthen social rights that the state must guarantee, increasing the number of employees and technicianprofessionals working with and for children and their families in social security services, and increasing the medical, psychological and social care of children;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recommends that the Commission and Member States develop statistical methods that integrate multidimensional indicators in measuring poverty, social exclusion, inequalities and discrimination and to take into account the limitations of relative poverty measurements and the work of the UNDP, UNICEF and the OECD, going beyond the AROPE indicatorand the Indicators Sub-Group of the Social Protection Committee, going beyond the AROPE indicator; invites the European Commission and Member States to develop responses based on a comprehensive approach and to make full use of data collected under initiatives such as the Multi-Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) developed by UNICEF; stresses that further indicators should be developed to assess better the quality of services, outcomes and access to services, e.g. in relation to the socio-economic statues and background of parents (migrant or minority), gender, disability and geographical aspects;