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11 Amendments of Nadja HIRSCH related to 2010/2159(INI)

Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas children's early learning lays the foundation for theirsuccessful lifelong learning, which is central to the achievement of the EU 2020 targets,
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas ECEC targets are often overly labour-market driven, focusing too heavily on the need to increase the numbers of women in work and too loosely on the needs and best interests of the child,deleted
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the early years of childhood are critical for brain, physical, personal and cognitive development, and language acquirement, and also lay the foundations for lifelong learning;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promptly;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages Member States to invest in parental education programmes, and, where appropriate, to provide home visiting services for parents who need additional help; considers, furthermore, that parents should be provided with free, low-threshold, on-site access to advisory services in crèches;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that children of parents without legal residence status are still not given access to early years learning in all Member States;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to provide the children of asylum seekers, refugees and persons with subsidiary protection status or leave to remain on humanitarian grounds with access to early childhood education so as not to restrict their life chances at the outset;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for the development of a European framework for ECEC services with shared goals and values;deleted
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recognises that account needs to be taken of the variety of families' differing life situations and the concomitant diversity of their needs, and looks to see a diverse, flexible and innovative range of early childhood education and care provision;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights that high-quality ECEC services are a complement to, not a substitute for, a strong welfare system incorporating a broad range of anti-poverty tools; calls on Member States to implenotes the UNICEF studies on combating child poverty, which show that investment financial redistribution measu infrastructure does more to addres,s child and family benefits, and other social expenditure in order to address societal poverty; poverty than individual financial benefits, which often do not reach the children;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises that having qualified and well-trained staff working with young children has the most notable impact on the quality of ECEC services, and as such calls on Member States to raise professional standards by introducing recognised qualifications for those working in the ECEC field; calls, in the implementation of the EQF, for account to be taken of the quality of education and thus of learning outcomes, rather than of the level of formal educational qualifications;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT