25 Amendments of Lívia JÁRÓKA related to 2023/2066(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Observes that disparities across the EU have been exacerbated by the COVID- 19 pandemic, the war of aggression against Ukraine and the current rise in living costs and have negatively affected children and their families in terms of income, access to employment, living conditionsmental and physical health, access to employment, housing and basic living conditions such as water and electricity, education, training and skills and access to care;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Remarks that the costs of these crisis are mostly worn by children, the crisis have demonstrated that social isolation and the decline of the socioeconomic situation of the household disproportionally affects the mental and physical well-being of women and children, often marking them for years and in many cases this depriving them of the possibility to break out the viscous circle of poverty;[1] [1] Eurostat: In 2021, 24.4% of children (aged less than 18 years old) in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to UN WOMEN Survey Report (2021) ‘Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19’, having regard to UN WOMEN Survey Report (2021) ‘Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID- 19’,
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, in order to reduce these inequalities and promote social inclusion, it is crucial to support women’s access to childcare facilities, the equal sharing of childcare between parents and family- friendly working time arrangements, adequate maternity and paternity leave and social funds, pensions to support families in having children and enable parents to have option of a successful career without having to sacrifice their family lives;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the EU care strategy and the revision of the Barcelona targets on early childhood education and care as key drivers of women’s labour-market participation1 ; _________________ 1 Eurostat: In 2021 in the EU-27, 27.9 % of women aged 25–49 outside the labour force indicated that looking after children or adults in need of care was their main reason for not seeking employment.[1] with the importance of equal and free child care available for families from all backgrounds, providing children growing up in poverty or social exclusion with opportunities to break out of that environment and explore their potential;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon stemming from household poverty, meaning that low- income and unemployed families, single- parent families – mostlyoften made up of women and their children – and large families, families living in disadvantaged regions and families from different ethnic or national backgrounds are at greater risk of poverty; whereas this phenomenon requires a structural, complex multidimensional response, which necessarily includes improving employment and job security, guaranteeing and enforcing rights, increasing income and ensuring universal access to quality public servic, addressing infrastructural deficiencies, expanding transport opportunities especially present in disadvantaged regions and ensuring universal access to quality public services such as education, healthcare, social care, quality housing and essential utilities;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas any social service and support to children or their parents, carers or legal guardians should be given without discrimination of any kind, especially based on sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that addressing gender gaps hasin pay and employment will have a positive impact on poverty reduction and social inclusion and thatin enabling this change the availability of childcare, social care and household services isare crucial;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, adopted in 2021, aims to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion by at least 5 million by 2030; whereas according to data collected by Eurostat, in 2021, 24.4% of children in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas even if this target were achieved around 15 million children in the EU would still be at risk of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas disparities across the EU have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war of aggression against Ukraine, inflation and the cost of living crisis have disproportionally affected children and their families in a negative way, especially with access to education, housing and care; whereas during the pandemic many children were not able to attend school at all and with that they not only lost access to online education by not having the necessary equipment, internet coverage or even electricity, for many children not going to school meant losing their one warm meal a day provided at these institutions, losing access to heating and losing the opportunity to get out of their abusive household during the day; whereas this is demonstrated by the rise domestic abuse cases during the pandemic, nearly 7 in 10 women said domestic violence increased in their community since the pandemic began, according to a survey by the United Nations agency for gender equality;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas childcare and pre-school education maysuch as nursery schools, kindergartens or children's homes, provides an early secondary socialisation setting where children acquire the learning competences that play a significant role in compensating for the socio-economic status of children at risk of poverty and fosterenable the integration of parents, especially mothers, into the labour market;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the Member States to put care at the centre of their policies and guarantee timely and equal access to quality public care services such as care education and housing, while making efficient use of the available EU tools and funds in this area. as crisis are often an excuse to cut public funding which also has disproportionate effects on women and children.
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas even in countries where the right to health is enshrined in law, many children - in particular children living in disadvantaged regions, slums and various segregated areas - do not have access to adequate healthcare and some have extremely limited access to services other than emergency services, such as a local GP, dental, antenatal and paediatric care, furthermore in some cases this is also compounded by the lack of access essential utilities such as water and electricity in their homes, putting at risk the health of women during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the health of babies and children;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas playing gives children the opportunity to express themselves in a symbolic way and forms an essential basis of the way they think, this is especially crucial during the first few years of development;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas it is crucial to support the existence and creation of early childhood and pre-school education and training institutions where children through play can acquire competences that are important for their future, such as learning to study, social rules, ethics and other social competences, this can help ensure that children grow up healthy and curious, have a more developed and fair culture;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in universal policies and programmes that have a direct and indirect impact on children’s lives, by guaranteeing high-quality public services (especially care, education, health, housing, cultural and leisure activities), to promote the creation of work with rights based on robust collective bargaining and recruitment with decent and fair wages, to facilitate a work-life balance by, inter alia, reducing working hours and providing for maternity and paternity leave, to introduce social funds and pensions that enable EU citizens to start a family and to bolster mechanisms for ensuring the participation of children and their families in the development, implementation and monitoring of these policies;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to aid Member States’ policy implementation by promoting recommendations and guidelines for raising the quality for high quality services such as education, housing and care and support Member States to put in place public policies putting down social inequalities affecting children;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that the governments of the Member States are moving away from universal policies and increasingly promoting policies based on the liberalisation of services and instruments whose availability depends on the resources of the beneficiaries; sStresses that universal and long- term policies offer better protection against the multiple causes of poverty and social exclusion, by providing structural responses that can, if necessary, be supplemented by immediate, one-off support measures;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the widest possible use of the Child Guarantee as a social response facilitating the social integration and inclusion of children suffering from poverty and exclusion, as these children continue to have more difficulties when it comes to their psychological development, succeeding in school being healthy or achieving their full potential later in life;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls onRecommends theat Member States to implementation of legislation that protects or enhances maternity, paternity and parental rights, allowing for a more effective work- life balance that makes it possible for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave, and for breastfeeding, so we can enable parents to live a self-determined life;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that their family protection legislation is translated into practice in their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes in the workplace in different sectors, such as work-life balance, work- from-home opportunities where possible;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that in poverty and social isolation a self-determined life is not possible, therefore measures should be introduced to address aspects that concern disadvantaged families and children with a multifaceted approach from employment to social resources;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses, in view of the difficulties in accessing early childhood care in most Member States, the need for investment in early childhood education and care services, including care and support for families with children under the age of 3, thereby creating or bolstering a public, universal and free response from the very beginning of the education process;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the experience of some Member States, which ensure that textbooks and teaching materials, as well as school transport and meals, are provided free of charge; recommends extending this system to all Member States as a means of ensuring equal access to education and as an important means of financial support for the most vulnerable of families; stresses the importance to supporting access to extracurricular activities, encouraging children to get involved in sports, music and other leisure activities especially for children coming from disadvantaged families;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; calls on the Member States to develop and implement integrated prevention and protection systems for children with a view to eradicating violdecreasing and fighting violence, especially domestic violence, and negligence;