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12 Amendments of Milan ZVER related to 2010/2159(INI)

Amendment 13 #
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 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas childcare has traditionally been seen as the natural activity of women, which has led to a dominance of females working in the ECEC field; whereas ECEC service providers tend to offer low rates of pay,
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that in addition to educationprotection education and care, all children have the right to rest, leisure and play;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the preschool period is the most important time in a child’s emotional and social development, and that therefore staff working with preschool children must have appropriate qualifications and demonstrate a suitable personality for working with preschool children;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the importance of appropriate and balanced exercise and acquiring healthy eating habits in the preschool period; warns against including children too early in certain intensive results- oriented sports activities;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that Member States must allow pluralist approaches in the preschool curriculum and practice;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Encourages the Member States to allow ECEC services sufficient autonomy to retain their uniqueness and creativity in seeking solutions for the wellbeing of children;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights the importance of innovative ECEC services, which are local in character and which bring together community members from the health, social, education, arts and other sectors;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Regrets that in an unstable economic climate ECEC policies are easily neglectedStresses that despite the current unstable economic climate we must not neglect to invest substantially in ECEC services; highlights that Member States should devote appropriate resources to ECEC services;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 72 #
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 implement financial redistribution measures, child and family benefits, and other social expenditure in order to address societal poverty; and to develop suitable mechanisms to ensure that child and family benefits are used for the children’s benefit and prevent the abuse of those resources, for example by parents with addiction problems;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages Member States to ensure that all qualified ECEC staff are ideally paid a salary in line with that of primary school teachers;deleted
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on Member States to address the problem of the gendering of care work by implementing policies to increase the numbers of men on ECEC courses, ensuring where possible that at least 20% are male;
2011/02/17
Committee: CULT