20 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2023/2811(RSP)
Amendment 25 #
Recital A
A. whereas access to basic services to help children and their families, including early childhood education and care (ECEC) and healthcare, as well as to education, housing and nutrition plays an important role in breaking the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage and lifting children and their families out of poverty and social exclusion, as it can help to tackle the complex and multifaceted nature of poverty and vulnerability;
Amendment 27 #
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the current geopolitical situation, notably Russian aggression against Ukraine and its economic repercussions, rising energy and food prices has been worsening the situation of many children and their families and requires an urgent response;
Amendment 28 #
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas addressing the root causes of child poverty and social exclusion risks, by empowering families and supporting parents in their responsibility of primary educators and caregivers, is a key priority;
Amendment 37 #
Recital C
C. whereas child poverty remains a key challenge across the EU, given that an average of 1 in 4 children are still at risk of poverty, with the share varying widely between countries – ranging from over 40 % in some countries to 11 % in others (2021 Eurostat data) or even regions within the Member States – and trends are worsening in many countries because of the multiple crises across the EU and globally;
Amendment 43 #
Recital D
D. whereas many more children are bound to be vulnerable, not only those living in poverty and social exclusion, but also children living with disabilities, children with a minority racial or ethnic background, children residing in institutions, children in single-parent families, migrant and refugee children, and so on; whereas improving their lives in the short term and establishing successful life paths for them in the long term requires structural changes and innovative solutions and an inter-sectoral approach at EU, national and local levels;
Amendment 50 #
Recital E
E. whereas the European Child Guarantee is a high-quality and innovative policy instrument with the potential to deliver significant improvements to the everyday reality of millions of children in the EU in a multidimensional way; whereas more needs to be done to achieve a more comprehensive, inter-sectoral approach to tackling children’s risk of vulnerability and to ensure genuine and efficient implementation by monitoring and assessing the NAPs and removing the policy, political, administrative and financial barriers;
Amendment 54 #
Recital F
F. whereas 20 months on from the original deadline of March 2022, 24 Member States have adopted their Child Guarantee NAPs, with a focus on the major areas identified in the associated Council Recommendation; whereas, in general, NAPs lack attention and focus on particular vulnerable families, such as single-parent families, low-income families and large families, which face additional difficulties;
Amendment 57 #
Recital G
G. whereas in some countries, NAPs have been accompanied by the revision of existing laws in several areas, such as deinstitutionalisation or access to ECEC services; whereas not all NAPs include new measures to address child poverty and social exclusion or have a clear measurable objectives, budget, timeline or monitoring mechanism;
Amendment 60 #
Recital I
I. whereas child poverty has a strong territorial dimension and cooperation with the local authorities as well as with charitable and church-based organisations helping children and families is proving conducive to more effective and sustainable results for children and their families;
Amendment 64 #
Recital K
K. whereas consistent institutional commitment, sufficient human resources and the engagement of different ministries and agencies and of sub-national authorities present challenges in a number of countries; whereas national coordinators are responsible for the implementation process and for coordinating the work of the various ministries in charge of implementation but often lack sufficient human resources;
Amendment 71 #
Recital L
L. whereas some countries have struggled to develop and implement a monitoring framework for their NAPs and do not collect enough quality and disaggregated data on child poverty; whereas the lack of standardised guidelines for data collection hinders the monitoring of the implementation of the European Child Guarantee;
Amendment 82 #
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure the full implementation of their NAPs and, when reviewing them, to set even more ambitiouscontinuously review them taking account the current development and specific situation on national and local level and based on this review, to adapt or strengthen their objectives to tackle child poverty;
Amendment 89 #
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to design a national framework for data collection, monitoring and evaluation for their NAPs, involving participatory research methods and establishing a methodology to uncover the overall root causes of family and child poverty, with particular attention to left-behind children; invites the Member States to create child poverty observatories to gather high-quality, disaggregated and internationally comparable data at national level;
Amendment 94 #
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data on child poverty from the Member States, and underlines that the indicators for monitoring child poverty selected by the Indicators subgroup of the Commission’s Social Protection Committee must make it possible to establish a closer link between the European Child Guarantee and the Social Scoreboard;
Amendment 171 #
Paragraph 18
18. Reiterates its call for an urgent increase inreview of the funding for the European Child Guarantee, with a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for 2021-2027, and insists that this dedicated budget must be made part of the revised multiannual financial framework and reinforced ESF+; invit and based on this review, for the consideration of an increase to this budget; encourages all Member States, not only those with a poverty rate below 5 %, to increase their financial efforts and show greater ambition to invest more in children, given that this is a valuable social investment;
Amendment 181 #
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds and invites themfor example by following the successful examples from several Member States and providing them directly to regional and local authorities; invites the Member States to explore innovative funding schemes, including public-private partnerships; encourages the Member States to work with the European Investment Bank and invest in social infrastructure dedicated to children; and families;
Amendment 197 #
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States to involve all relevant stakeholders at all levels in the revision and implementation of their NAPs in order to build solid partnerships that can strengthen and expand ownership and commitment; highlights the importance of involving civil society and children and their families in developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation framework;
Amendment 201 #
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the Member States to support local partnerships for children, between municipality-led services and other service providers, local communities, parents and children, schools, charitieable and church-based organisations, NGOs and private-sector actors, in order to maximise resources and their efficient use for the implementation of the European Child Guarantee; notes that local partnerships should ensure a participatory approach to developing, implementing and monitoring the local Child Guarantee and guarantee that responsibility for this is shared;
Amendment 208 #
Paragraph 26
26. Highlights that national coordinators need to receive adequate leverage and financial and human resources as well as a structured network of all national coordinators allowing them to communicate and exchange views and best practices in order to effectively coordinate the implementation of the NAPs;
Amendment 215 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part
27. Asks the Commission to set-up a European children’s authority with a mandate to establish a permanent system ofplatform for monitoring, support and cooperation between the Commission, the Member States, national coordinators and relevant stakeholders including children´s ombudsmen or other national authorities dedicated to children´s rights and NGOs in order to: