15 Amendments of David CASA related to 2023/2811(RSP)
Amendment 31 #
Recital B
B. whereas investing in children’s early years is vital for tackling child poverty and social exclusion, and ensuring nurturing care for their healthy growth, development and wellbeing provides solid foundations early in life, for the benefit of individuals and societies; whereas investing in the youngest generation brings the greatest return and contributes to the growth and prosperity of society as a whole; whereas several Member States have allocated more than the requested 5 % of European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) resources to tackling child poverty and 23 Member States have programmed a total of EUR 8.9 billion in ESF+ support to address the issue; whereas the implementation of the ESF+ plans has been delayed, in turn delaying the reforms to be undertaken under Child Guarantee national action plans (NAPs) and financed through the ESF+;
Amendment 40 #
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 under 11 % in others (20212 Eurostat data) – and trends are worsening in many countries because of the multiple crises across the EU and globally;
Amendment 68 #
Recital L
L. whereas some countries have struggled to develop and implement a monitoring framework for their NAPs and do not collect enough data on child poverty; whereas the lack of standardised guidelines for data collection hinders the monitoring of the implementation of the European Child Guarantee; whereas access to information for regional and local level organisations continues to pose an impediment in the harmonious implementation of the European Child Guarantee;
Amendment 83 #
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to ensure the full implementation of their NAPs and, when reviewing them, to set even more ambitious objectives to tackle child poverty with specific targeted measures to ensure access to essential services for all children in need from their earliest years;
Amendment 86 #
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 with a view to establishing a common monitoring framework at EU level including common indicators for each target group identified in the European Child Guarantee; invites the Member States to create child poverty observatories to gather high-quality, disaggregated and internationally comparable data at national level, including disaggregated data on children under three;
Amendment 92 #
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Where national data are not available at a comparative level, Member States are called on to develop common guidelines for the collection and reporting of data on children of all target groups across EU countries, including methodological work to improve data comparability and assure data quality;
Amendment 105 #
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for the Commission to create a citizen-friendly EU-wide monitoring tool that clearly identifies the desired outcomes, increasing the transparency of the Guarantee, alongside a state of play on progress in each country and in the EU as a whole;
Amendment 108 #
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that further economic aspects of each NAP must be monitored, particularly national and EU funding, including funding reaching the beneficiaries, for instance through the European Social Fund Plus;
Amendment 126 #
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to increase their efforts to ensure that all children enrolled in education receive at least one healthy warm meal each school day, and encourages an adequate substitute during school holidays;
Amendment 128 #
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that NAPs have identified several unmet needs in the healthcare sector; calls on the Member States to strengthen and adapt their healthcare systems in order to guarantee all children free and equal access to quality services, including dental and psychological services, and to include universal access to maternal, new-born and child healthcare in their Child Guarantee National Action Plans;
Amendment 139 #
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that poor housing is still one of the causes of child poverty, given that it is linked with energy poverty and precarious living conditions; invites the Member States, therefore, to set up, assess and revise their social housing policies and housing benefit systems in order to better cater for the needs of vulnerable families;
Amendment 147 #
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to promote outreach activities and raise awareness of the European Child Guarantee and the key services that children and families can benefit from, which include after-hours non-formal education and extracurricular activities in arts and sports; calls for establishing Child Guarantee focal points at existing structures such as the social agencies at regional/local levels, (Roma) community centres and others to provide children and families with targeted support to access social security and assistance, as well as specific local measures for social inclusion;
Amendment 152 #
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 156 #
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the importance of integrating services (childcare, healthcare, education and housing) as part of a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty, with integrated and comprehensive services for all children from early childhood and of taking a case- by-case management approach for tailored interventions;
Amendment 186 #
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to work further with the Member States by providing tailor-made technical expertise through the Technical Support Instrument to boost the technical capacity for implementing the European Child Guarantee, including the development of national programmes and sub-granting schemes to each identified target groups of children, to build a national monitoring framework in line with European standards, and to develop guidelines on improving the quality of national indicators, monitoring and evaluation procedures;