2023/2811(RSP) Resolution on ‘Children first – strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption’
Lead committee dossier:
Progress: Procedure completed
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Lead | EMPL |
PÎSLARU Dragoş ( Renew)
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CASA David ( EPP),
BENIFEI Brando ( S&D),
ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ Lucia ( Renew),
LANGENSIEPEN Katrin ( Verts/ALE),
LIZZI Elena ( ID),
DE LA PISA CARRIÓN Margarita ( ECR),
PEREIRA Sandra ( GUE/NGL)
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Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2, RoP 136-p5
Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2, RoP 136-p5Subjects
Events
2023/11/21
EP - Text adopted by Parliament, single reading
Documents
2023/11/21
EP - Decision by Parliament
Documents
2023/11/20
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
2023/11/16
EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2023/09/21
EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/06/29
EP - PÎSLARU Dragoş (Renew) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL
Documents
- Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: T9-0409/2023
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0409/2023
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0462/2023
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE753.501
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE753.501
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0462/2023
- Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: T9-0409/2023
Activities
- Dragoş PÎSLARU
Institutional Motions (1)
- Nicola BEER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Eugen TOMAC
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
Children first – strengthening the Child Guarantee, two years on from its adoption – B9-0462/2023 – § 1/2 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 351, -: 206, 0: 49
The Left
NI
PPEB9-0462/2023 – § 18/1 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 463, 0: 92, -: 42
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/1 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 392, -: 129, 0: 61
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/2 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 385, -: 176, 0: 50
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/3 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 394, -: 146, 0: 74
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/4 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 402, -: 136, 0: 73
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/5 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 386, -: 146, 0: 70
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/6 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 470, -: 91, 0: 40
B9-0462/2023 – § 22/7 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 426, -: 158, 0: 27
B9-0462/2023 – After § 23 – Am 1 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 319, -: 244, 0: 44
B9-0462/2023 – § 32/2 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 425, -: 159, 0: 15
B9-0462/2023 – Recital C/2 #
2023/11/21 Outcome: +: 463, -: 97, 0: 51
| Amendments | Dossier |
| 227 |
2023/2811(RSP)
2023/09/22
EMPL
227 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Title 1 European Parliament resolution on ‘Children first –
Amendment 10 #
Citation 12 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 15 December 2022 on upscaling the 2021- 2027 multiannual financial framework: a resilient EU budget fit for new challenges;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 5 5. Underlines the call made by its cross-political Working Group on the Child Guarantee, which was established in April 2022, for the Commission and the national authorities to monitor the implementation of the NAPs and set up a solid, overarching EU-level monitoring and evaluation framework and an associated assessment methodology; in this regard further emphasises that it is imperative for the Commission to work with the Member States’ authorities and other stakeholders, especially civil organisations helping vulnerable children to ensure effective monitoring of child poverty indicators;
Amendment 101 #
Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 102 #
Paragraph 6 Amendment 103 #
Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 104 #
Paragraph 6 6. Reiterates its call for the Commission, in partnership with Eurofound, to create a citizen
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 106 #
Paragraph 7 7. Notes that further economic aspects of each NAP must be monitored, particularly national and EU funding, including funding reaching the beneficiaries; highlights in particular the necessity to closely monitor the implementation of National Recovery and Resilience Plans in the field of child poverty, which should be designed and delivered synergistically with dedicated resources of the European Child Guarantee Action Plans and the European Social Fund Plus;
Amendment 107 #
Paragraph 7 7. Notes that further economic aspects of each NAP must be monitored, particularly on the size and impact of national and EU funding, including funding reaching the beneficiaries as well as possible difficulties for organisations and potential beneficiaries to access such funding;
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 109 #
Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Highlights that the issue of “value added” of the European Child Guarantee should be given utmost importance, since all resources dedicated to its measures should not simply replace already existing national or European measures but should instead complement them; highlights that the NAPs should not constitute a re-branding or re-packaging of already existing programmes or measures, which would constitute a serious risk for the achievement of the Child Guarantee objectives and would raise concerns with regard to the general principle of additionality of the EU cohesion policy;
Amendment 11 #
Citation 12 a (new) – having regard UN Convention on rights of persons with disabilities
Amendment 110 #
Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to use the mid-term review to support the revision of the NAPs; calls on the Member States to streamline NAPs and create synergies between them and national policies and strategies, as well as their funding, in order to ensure that the measures are consistent and sufficient human resources for the services are provided;
Amendment 111 #
Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Commission to use the mid-term review to support the revision of the NAPs; calls on the Member States to streamline NAPs and create synergies between them and national policies and strategies, notably the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, as well as their funding, in order to ensure that the measures are consistent;
Amendment 112 #
Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission that the designation of children as disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged is closely linked to early school drop-out; points out that the criteria and practices for designating children as disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged differ between Member States' education systems, as well as practices regarding the collection of data regarding drop-out rates, as a result some are deprived of the support measures that would otherwise be available to them; recommends that best practices in the Member States be shared;
Amendment 113 #
Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on the Commission to set up a single common EU minimum framework for identifying disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged young people, with a common definition of risk factors determined by the Indicators subgroup of the Commission’s Social Protection Committee, including data collection of dropout rates from the first year of schooling; recommends that in this framework circumstances and risk factors should be included for teachers, educators and other responsible persons to identify them, take different competences and disadvantages into account, and to draw up an individual plan for the education of the child; furthermore recommends that teachers, educators and other responsible persons cooperate with institutions linked to the educational establishment, such as care organisations for child protection and development institutions, in order to provide parallel support for families and children affected by out-of-school circumstances;
Amendment 114 #
Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the importance of political support and calls for the Member States to step up their ambition in the implementation of the European Child Guarantee; encourages the Council, and the Member States holding the presidency of
Amendment 115 #
Paragraph 9 9. Highlights the importance of political support and calls for the Member States to step up their ambition in the implementation of the European Child Guarantee; encourages the Council, and the Member States holding the presidency of the Council, to keep families and children at the heart of EU’s social agenda;
Amendment 116 #
Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Highlights the role of the European Parliament in calling for an efficient European Child Guarantee and its efforts in guaranteeing swift implementation as well as resilience of the European Child Guarantee to the new crises; in the light of complex and far- reaching economic and social consequences of these crises, believes that a permanent horizontal body in the European Parliament should advise to all the relevant parliamentary committees also on mainstreaming the objectives of the European Child Guarantee in their work and all children’s rights in the European legislation;
Amendment 117 #
Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the Commission to include an assessment of Member States’ commitments and structural reforms in the key areas targeted by the Child Guarantee in the European Semester exercise; asks the Commission to include a clear link to committed resources for these objectives under the ESF+ and other financial instruments;
Amendment 118 #
Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. calls on Member States to ensure inclusive education and avoid segregated classes in early childhood education and schools;
Amendment 119 #
Paragraph 9 b (new) 9b. calls on Member States to adapt facilities and educational materials of early childhood education, care and schools to the needs of children with disabilities, using inclusive methods;
Amendment 12 #
Citation 12 b (new) – having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on access to decent and affordable housing for all
Amendment 120 #
Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 121 #
Paragraph 10 10. Notes that take-up of ECEC remains low among low-income families
Amendment 122 #
Paragraph 10 10. Notes that take-up of ECEC remains low among low-income families; calls on the Member States to
Amendment 123 #
Paragraph 11 11. Calls on the Member States to increase their efforts to ensure that all children enrolled in education receive at least one free healthy warm meal each school day;
Amendment 124 #
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 to provide an adequate substitute during school holiday; notes that the share of children AROP unable to afford a nutritious meal every second day decreased from 25.82% in 2008 to 16.04% in 2021 and that many countries recorded a drop in performance during the years of the crisis;
Amendment 125 #
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; calls attention to good practices of some Member States such as providing children in primary school free and healthy meals, including milk and fresh fruits and vegetables as well as providing free textbook programmes;
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 127 #
Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 128 #
Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that NAPs have identified several unmet needs in the
Amendment 129 #
Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that in 2021, 5% of low- income households with children had unmet medical needs in the EU1c and 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; _________________ 1c Eurofound (2023), Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Amendment 13 #
Citation 12 b (new) – having regards to the Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 130 #
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 eliminate all discrimination and guarantee all children in need free and equal access to quality services, including dental and psychological services;
Amendment 131 #
Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that NAPs have identified several unmet needs in the healthcare sector; calls on the Member States to set-up, strengthen and adapt their health care systems in order to
Amendment 132 #
Paragraph 12 12. Highlights that NAPs have identified several unmet needs in the
Amendment 133 #
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
Amendment 134 #
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; reiterates its call to the Commission and the Member States to make housing one of the cornerstones of the Action Plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights; recalls that EU policies, funding programmes and financing instruments have a great impact on housing markets, the quality of the housing stock and on citizens’ lives; calls on the Commission to urgently develop an integrated EU-level strategy for social, public, non-segregated and affordable housing, creating an enabling framework for national, regional and local authorities to ensure the provision of safe, healthy, accessible and affordable quality housing for all; calls on the Commission, as part of this strategy, to improve its action to engage all levels of governance in fully and consistently implementing the right to decent housing for all; invites the Member States, therefore, to assess and revise their social housing policies and housing benefit systems in order to better cater for the needs of vulnerable families
Amendment 135 #
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;
Amendment 136 #
Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 137 #
Paragraph 13 13. Highlights that poor housing is still one of the causes
Amendment 138 #
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 assess and revise their social housing policies and housing benefit systems in order to better cater for the needs of vulnerable families, including those facing disabilities;
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
Amendment 14 #
Citation 12 c (new) – having regard to its resolution of 11 May 2023 on a roadmap towards a social Europe – two years after the Porto Social Summit
Amendment 140 #
Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Highlights the importance of additional resources and support for children with disabilities, developmental delays and/or special needs that go beyond free ECEC, the streamlining of their needs across key services, as well as the early detection of risks and the access to Early Childhood Intervention services;
Amendment 141 #
Paragraph 14 Amendment 142 #
Paragraph 14 14. Encourages the Member States to register all children and adolescents regardless of their parents’ administrative status (residence status) in order to decrease the practical and administrative barriers to accessing key services or to keep the procedures simple and accessible, by accepting declarations of honour when documents needed for registration cannot be procured;
Amendment 143 #
Paragraph 14 14.
Amendment 144 #
Paragraph 14 14. Encourages the Member States to
Amendment 145 #
Paragraph 14 14. Encourages the Member States to register all children and adolescents
Amendment 146 #
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; calls for support for cities to establish one stop shops to provide children and families with targeted and integrated support to access information on early detection and Early Childhood Intervention, social security and assistance, as well as specific local measures for social inclusion; calls for establishing the Child Guarantee focal points in existing structures such as the social agencies at regional/local levels, community centres and others relevant institutions to provide children and families with targeted support to access social security and assistance, as well as specific local measures for social inclusion;
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 148 #
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; in this regard calls on the Member States to exchange good practices; furthermore, calls attention to the success of measures such as tax breaks and extra family allowence for people with multiple children, tax breaks for people under the age of 25 and family housing support programmes in certain Member States;
Amendment 149 #
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; calls for support for cities to establish one-stop shops to provide children and families with targeted support to access information on early detection and Early Childhood Intervention social security and assistance, as well as specific local measures for social inclusion;
Amendment 15 #
Citation 12 c (new) – having regard to the Article 9 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 150 #
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, to ensure the effective take up of rights;
Amendment 151 #
Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 152 #
Paragraph 15 a (new) Amendment 153 #
Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on Member States to ensure that public transport is accessible to all children, including children with disabilities, children living in rural areas, and all children with a migrant background;
Amendment 154 #
Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the importance of integrating services (childcare, healthcare, education and housing) as part of a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty,
Amendment 155 #
Paragraph 16 16.
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 157 #
Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the pivotal importance of universal policies within the context of integrating services (childcare, healthcare, education and housing), as part of a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty, and of taking a case-by-case management approach for tailored interventions;
Amendment 158 #
Paragraph 16 16. Highlights the importance of integrating quality services (childcare, healthcare, education and housing) as part of a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty, and of taking a case-by-case management approach for tailored interventions;
Amendment 159 #
Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses the necessity for the Member States to invest in social protection systems and policies such as adequate minimum income schemes and minimum wages as a means to sustain most vulnerable households in the EU; calls on all EU Member States to swiftly adopt and implement the Council Recommendation of 30 January 2023 on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion and the EU directive on minimum wage to combat poverty and social exclusion in the EU; reiterates that it is essential for income support and minimum income not to contribute to social dependence and that they must rather be combined with incentives and support tools, enabling active labour market measures to (re)integrate those who can work in order to break the vicious circle of poverty and the dependence on public support for individuals and their families; is concerned about the recent decision of the Italian government to drastically curb its minimum income scheme which supported around 3,6 million people especially for its impact on children, going against the overall trend in the EU in the fight against poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 16 #
Citation 12 d (new) – having regard to its resolution of 22 June 2022 on "Towards a common European action on care";
Amendment 160 #
Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Calls on the Member States to make preschool education such as nursery and kindergarten free and mandatory, therefore enabling the parents’ and especially the mothers’ return to employment; emphasises that the preschool programmes should ensure quality teaching while preparing them for primary school, in this regard it is imperative that the children acquire adequate mastery of the future language of instruction prior to entering primary school;
Amendment 161 #
Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Encourages Member States to ensure that public transport is accessible to all children enrolled in pre-school and school, including children with disabilities, children living in rural areas, and all children with a migrant background;
Amendment 162 #
Paragraph 16 b (new) 16b. Reiterates its call for a comprehensive and integrated antipoverty strategy with a designated poverty reduction target including for child poverty; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure children’s right to adequate housing is implemented, including by providing related support to parents having difficulties with keeping or accessing housing, so that they can remain with their children, with particular attention on young adults exiting child welfare institutions; calls on the Member States to adopt a specific housing policy for children, based on children-specific data on child homelessness and children's housing exclusion situation; highlights the necessity to facilitate access to social housing by streamlining and simplifying procedures at the national and local level and by significantly increasing public spending on housing, which remains highly fragmented across the EU, and by strengthening financial contribution and subsidies to families in need to make rents more affordable; calls on the Member States to adopt measures to protect vulnerable households with children from evictions, strengthen the presence of social services in the area at higher risk of social exclusion and among marginalised communities;
Amendment 163 #
Paragraph 17 17.
Amendment 164 #
Paragraph 17 17. Calls for the Member States to ensure consistency between the European Child Guarantee and the reinforced Youth Guarantee in order to cover the entire age span from pregnancy to adulthood; highlights that the European Child Guarantee, like the Youth Guarantee, bears the potential to become a driver for positive structural change in the Member States' ability to plan and deliver key services, strengthen the partnership among institutional actors at the different levels and with civil society organisations and social partners;
Amendment 165 #
Paragraph 17 17. Calls for the Member States to ensure consistency between the European Child Guarantee and the reinforced Youth Guarantee in order to cover the entire age span from pregnancy to adulthood, particularly when it comes to the role of labour market integration measures, identifying the target groups, available services and skills needs and mobilising partnerships;
Amendment 166 #
Paragraph 17 17. Calls for the Member States to ensure continuity and consistency between the European Child Guarantee and the reinforced Youth Guarantee in order to cover the entire age span from pregnancy to adulthood;
Amendment 167 #
Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Member States to harness the potential of the ECG to ensure family and community-based environments to all children in the EU, by implementing the reform of child care and protection systems, and strengthening national social protection systems;
Amendment 168 #
Paragraph 18 Amendment 169 #
Paragraph 18 18. Reiterates its call for an urgent increase in 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+;
Amendment 17 #
Citation 12 d (new) – having regard to the Article 151 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
Amendment 170 #
Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 171 #
Paragraph 18 18. Reiterates its call for an urgent
Amendment 172 #
Paragraph 18 18. Reiterates its call for an urgent
Amendment 173 #
Paragraph 18 18.
Amendment 174 #
Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to assess the quality of spending on children, in particular to evaluate the effective and consistent use of the EUR 8.9 billion dedicated to the European Child Guarantee, and asks the Commission to propose options for synergies and blending with other sources of funding; urges the Commission and the Member States to take in consideration the impacts of the increasing cost of living in the implementation of the Child Guarantee, so that inflation does not diminish the programme’s ability to meet its objective of eradicating child poverty;
Amendment 175 #
Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to assess the quality of spending on children, in particular to evaluate the effective and consistent use of the EUR 8.9 billion dedicated to the European Child Guarantee under the ESF+, and asks the Commission to propose options for synergies
Amendment 176 #
Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to assess the quality of spending on children, in particular to evaluate the effective and consistent use of the EUR 8.9 billion dedicated to the European Child Guarantee, and asks the Commission to propose options for synergies and blending with other sources of funding like ERDF, InvestEU, Next Generation EU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, AMIF and ReactEU;
Amendment 177 #
Paragraph 19 19. Calls on the Commission to assess the quality of spending on children, in particular to evaluate the effective and consistent use of the EUR 8.9 billion dedicated to the European Child Guarantee
Amendment 178 #
Paragraph 19 a (new) 19a. Stresses the necessity to closely monitor the implementation of the investments and reforms under the Policies for the next Generation Pillar of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans adopted by the Member States, with a view to carefully evaluate the achievement of the milestones and targets of the measures aimed at improving the affordability, the quality and the inclusiveness of early childhood education and care services; highlights that in general terms, the reporting obligations of the RRF have resulted in the availability of more detailed and measurable objectives and data on expenditures in this policy area; regrets however that in some cases Member States' authorities have failed to produce sufficiently clear figures on the planned objectives and the measures effectively delivered, for example with regard to the numbers of new places in nurseries and on the increased coverage of early childhood education services; points out to the necessity of guaranteeing financially and from an organisational standpoint the maintenance of the expanded capacity and coverage of early childhood education and care services after the extraordinary investments under the National Recovery and Resilience Plans will be exhausted; stresses the necessity to coordinate the National Recovery and Resilience Plans in this field with the Child Guarantee objectives and with the resources already allocated under the ESF+ and the other European Structural Funds to foster synergies, avoid funding overlaps and ensure a long- term sustainability of the proposed measures;
Amendment 179 #
Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds and invites them 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;
Amendment 18 #
Draft motion for a resolution Citation 12 e (new) – having regard to the Eurofound report “Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU”1a _________________ 1a Eurofound (2023), Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publicat ions/policy-brief/2023/guaranteeing- access-to-services-for-children-in-the-eu
Amendment 180 #
Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU and national funds and invites them 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; underlines the importance of exempting the investment in the key policies for combatting child poverty and social exclusion from the national spending cuts;
Amendment 181 #
Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds
Amendment 182 #
Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds and
Amendment 183 #
Paragraph 20 20. Calls on the Member States to ensure that best use is made of available EU funds and invites them to explore innovative funding schemes
Amendment 184 #
Paragraph 20 a (new) 20a. Calls on the Commission to stop withholding funds such as the European Child Guarantee from Member States based on political and ideological differences, because it is the children who are suffering as a consequence; stresses that social investment and funding should be conditional on the socio-economic circumstances only and therefore reach those in need in all Member States;
Amendment 185 #
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 develop reforms enhancing inclusion and quality of services for children experiencing vulnerabilities and to boost the technical capacity for implementing the Child Guarantee; the support should focus on including the development of the national programmes and sub-granting schemes to reach identified target groups of children, building national monitoring frameworks in line with European standards, and developing guidelines to help improve the quality of national indicators, monitoring and evaluation procedures;
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;
Amendment 187 #
Paragraph 21 21.
Amendment 188 #
Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the Commission to ensure direct, adequate and easily accessible funding at regional and local level to boost investment in social infrastructure and increase the capacity of local services to pilot new models and solutions to reduce child poverty; highlights the necessity to provide Local and Regional Authorities and Municipalities with adequate support to implement the measures included in the plans, especially in the most rural areas; welcomes the Flexible Assistance to Territories (FAST-CARE) model that provides funding to local authorities and civil society organisations and notes that it should become a wider model in the revision of the MFF;
Amendment 189 #
Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the Commission to ensure direct, adequate and easily accessible funding at regional and local level to boost investment in social infrastructure and increase the capacity of local services to pilot new models and solutions to reduce child poverty; calls on the Commission to make sure the interventions/calls will reach all stakeholders including the civil society organisations tackling child poverty; welcomes the Flexible Assistance to Territories (FAST-CARE) model that provides funding to local authorities and civil society organisations and notes that it should become a wider model in the revision of the MFF;
Amendment 19 #
Citation 12 e (new) – having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 190 #
Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the Commission to lift administrative burdens in order to ensure direct, adequate and easily accessible funding at regional and local level to boost investment in social infrastructure and increase the capacity of local services to pilot new models and solutions to reduce child poverty;
Amendment 191 #
Paragraph 22 22. Calls on the Commission to ensure direct, adequate and easily accessible funding at regional and local level to boost investment in social infrastructure and increase the capacity of local services to pilot new models and innovative solutions to reduce child poverty;
Amendment 192 #
Paragraph 22 a (new) 22a. Calls on the European Commission and the EU Member States to continue investing in family and community based care to ensure the effective transition from institutional care;
Amendment 193 #
Paragraph 22 b (new) 22b. Calls on the Member States to increase investments in targeted policies and services that have a direct and indirect impact on children’s and families’ lives, by guaranteeing high- quality accessible, and affordable essential services, including social services.
Amendment 194 #
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 in developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation framework; Stresses in this respect the important role of the European Platform on Combatting Homelesness in sharing experiences and policy recommendations in the fight against homelessness.
Amendment 195 #
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 facilitate the meaningful, inclusive and safe participation of children in developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation framework;
Amendment 196 #
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, ECEC staff and service providers and children in developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation framework;
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 198 #
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, vulnerable groups and children in developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation framework;
Amendment 199 #
Paragraph 23 a (new) 23a. regrets the lack of involvement of the social partners in the process of data gathering and assessment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to closely cooperate with them in order to make sure that the workers needed to create or update services to achieve the goals of the Child Guarantee have decent working conditions and enough staff to provide the high quality services;
Amendment 2 #
Citation 1 a (new) – having regard to the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in New York on 16 December 1966,
Amendment 20 #
Citation 12 f (new) – having regard to the Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 2021-2030 adopted by the European Commission in 2021;
Amendment 200 #
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, charities, social partners, NGOs and private-sector actors, in order to maximise resources 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; suggests the establishment of a technical assistance facility for local and regional authorities and municipalities to increase their capacity to plan and deliver Child Guarantee related services and to maximise the potential of EU funds in this field;
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, charit
Amendment 202 #
Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up a solid governance framework at EU and national levels; highlights the need for multi-level governance, with joint responsibility and coordinated strategies between local, regional, national and EU levels, to prevent and mitigate child poverty; highlights the need that in light of the recent polycrisis to update existing frameworks and re- evaluate goals and measures such as the EU Roma strategic framework for equality, inclusion and participation, as the Commission has previously done with revising the Barcelona targets;
Amendment 203 #
Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up a solid governance framework at EU and national levels, ensuring a successful and integrated interplay between the Child Guarantee, national framework and strategies, and the EU social and equity agenda – including the European Semester; highlights the need for multi- level governance, with joint responsibility and
Amendment 204 #
Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up a solid governance framework at EU and national level
Amendment 205 #
Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 206 #
Paragraph 25 25. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up a
Amendment 207 #
Paragraph 26 26. Highlights that national coordinators need to receive adequate leverage and financial and human
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 209 #
Paragraph 26 26. Highlights that national coordinators need to receive adequate leverage and financial and human resources and a strong mandate to effectively coordinate the implementation of the NAPs;
Amendment 21 #
Citation 12 f (new) – having regard to its resolution of 7 April 2022 on EU Protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine;
Amendment 210 #
Paragraph 26 26. Highlights that national coordinators need to receive adequate leverage and financial and human resources to effectively and efficiently coordinate the implementation of the NAPs;
Amendment 211 #
Paragraph 26 a (new) Amendment 212 #
Paragraph 27 Amendment 213 #
Paragraph 27 Amendment 214 #
Paragraph 27 Amendment 215 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part 27. Asks the Commission to
Amendment 216 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part 27. Asks the Commission to
Amendment 217 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part 27. Asks the Commission to set-up a
Amendment 218 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part 27. Asks the Commission to set-up a
Amendment 219 #
Paragraph 27 – introductory part 27. Asks the Commission to set-up a European children’s authority with a mandate to establish a permanent system of monitoring, support and cooperation between the Commission, the Member States and relevant stakeholders, EU agencies, institutions and NGOs in order to:
Amendment 22 #
Recital -A (new) -A. whereas the socio-economic situation of children in Europe has worsened firstly as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, not only in terms of health and social impacts but also due to the lockdown measures taken to control the emergency which resulted in mental health problems, educational gaps and school dropouts, increased violence and abuse against children, but also due to the economic and humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which had devastating effects not solely for the millions of refugee children and their families fleeing the war, but for the overall population in the EU, in terms of soaring costs of living, energy prices, inflation, growing inequalities, access to basic services and affordability of healthy food and medicines;
Amendment 220 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 1 a (new) Amendment 221 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 2 – work together with Eurostat and the European statistical system (including the national statistical offices) towards the harmonised development and collection of quantitative and qualitative data in all areas relevant for the implementation of the objectives of the European Child Guarantee and other related policies on children;
Amendment 222 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 2 – work towards
Amendment 223 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 4 Amendment 224 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 5 a (new) – evaluate the consistency and continuity of measures developed under the Child Guarantee and the reinforced Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 225 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 7 a (new) – raise awareness about the existence of the Technical Support Instrument that can provide technical expertise in the implementation of reforms pertaining to child policies;
Amendment 226 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 9 Amendment 227 #
Paragraph 27 – indent 9 a (new) – ensure the participation of children, their families and the civil society, including child-led and care leavers organisations, in the development, implementation and monitoring of the NAPs;
Amendment 23 #
Recital A A. whereas access to basic services, including effective and free access to high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) and healthcare, as well as to education
Amendment 24 #
Recital A A. whereas
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 26 #
Recital A A. whereas access to basic and quality services, 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
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 29 #
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
Amendment 30 #
Recital B B. whereas investing in the youngest generation brings the greatest return and contributes to the growth and prosperity of society as a whole; whereas several
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 32 #
Recital B B. 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 ESF+; whereas, in several Member States, the amount allocated for the Child Guarantee is insufficient to compensate the loss of family income caused by the surge in inflation;
Amendment 33 #
Recital B B.
Amendment 34 #
Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted significant health and social long-term impacts over the well-being of children, has led to increased inequality and social exclusion, exacerbating existing challenges, especially for children and families in vulnerable situations, due to the disruption of daily life routines and social contacts, school closures, the reduced capacity of the systems to ensure safeguards against domestic violence, abuse and neglect during lockdown and the disruption of basic social services; whereas the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, and increases in energy prices and the cost of living have resulted in the worst cost-of- living crisis, with more children and young, people pushed into poverty;
Amendment 35 #
Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas 758,018 children were in alternative care in 2021 in the 27 EU Member States; whereas children in alternative care were particularly affected during the pandemic when governments in some countries responded to the COVID-19 crisis by reducing or closing residential care services, which meant a hurried and often unprepared return to their biological families often without the underlying conditions for their original placement in care being addressed; whereas poverty in the families may lead to a situation where the parents can no longer provide adequate care for the children and may lead to child family separation and the children’s entry in alternative care; whereas the lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the many factors that lead to child family separation, among them poverty, abuse, neglect, illness and death, and the number of children without or at risk of losing parental care is likely to increase as a result of the long-term socioeconomic impact of the current crises on families’ ability to provide care;
Amendment 36 #
Recital C C. whereas child poverty remains a
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 38 #
Recital C C. whereas child poverty and social exclusion 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) – and trends are worsening in many countries because of the multiple crises across the EU and globally;
Amendment 39 #
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) – and trends are worsening in many countries because of
Amendment 4 #
Citation 2 a (new) – having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and particularly Article 7 on Children with Disabilities;
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 (202
Amendment 41 #
Recital D D. whereas many more children
Amendment 42 #
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 mental problems, children with a minority racial or ethnic background, children residing in institutions, migrant and refugee children, children facing homelessness and children experiencing severe housing deprivation, 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 intersectoral approach at EU, national and local levels;
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,
Amendment 44 #
Recital D D. whereas many more children are bound to be vulnerable, not only those living in poverty and social exclusion
Amendment 45 #
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, 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 on how policies are delivered and an intersectoral approach at EU, national and local levels;
Amendment 46 #
Recital D D. whereas many
Amendment 47 #
Recital D a (new) Da. 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, 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 an online education by not having the necessary equipment, internet coverage or even electricity; for many children not going to school this meant losing their only warm meal a day provided by 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 of domestic abuse cases during the pandemic; according to a survey by the United Nations agency for gender equality1a nearly 7 in 10 women said domestic violence increased in their community since the pandemic began; _________________ 1a UN WOMEN Survey Report (2021) ‘Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID- 19’
Amendment 48 #
Recital E Amendment 49 #
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 its objective is to prevent and combat social exclusion by guaranteeing effective access of children in need to a set of key services, such as free early childhood education and care, free education, including school-based activities and at least one healthy meal each school day, free healthcare, healthy nutrition, and adequate housing; whereas the European Union and the Member States should deploy all efforts to turn the European Child Guarantee into reality by fully implementing the Council Recommendation and the National Action Plans (NAPs) and all other European and national programmes which contribute to the delivery of its key services; whereas more needs to be done to achieve a more comprehensive, intersectoral approach to tackling children’s risk of
Amendment 5 #
Citation 5 a (new) – having regard to the UN Resolution on the Guidelines for the alternative care of children, adopted in New York on 18 December 2009,
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 51 #
Recital E E. whereas the European Child Guarantee is a high-quality and innovative policy instrument with the potential to
Amendment 52 #
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 such as guaranteeing effective and free access to high quality ECEC, including continuous learning opportunities in and outside of schools, education and school-based activities and a healthy meal each school day for children in need, effective and free access to quality healthcare, effective access to sufficient and healthy nutrition, effective access to adequate housing and with a specific focus on the needs of certain target groups more at risk of poverty such as homeless children or children experiencing severe housing deprivation, children without parental care, children with disabilities, children with mental health issues, children with a migrant background and especially undocumented children etc.;
Amendment 53 #
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 the submitted plans vary significantly among each other with regard to their governance methods, their outreach strategy vis-a-vis the most disadvantaged groups and the way to target them and to monitor progress, the timelines of proposed measures and the budget foreseen to effectively deploy such measures; whereas several plans appear as generic and superficial documents in which policy-makers merely listed measures already put in place or planned;
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;
Amendment 55 #
Recital F F. whereas 20 months
Amendment 56 #
Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas countries that benefited from technical assistance have developed better quality NAPs, with stakeholder collaboration and targeted measures for effective access of some of the most disadvantaged groups of children to the basic services;
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
Amendment 58 #
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
Amendment 59 #
Recital H H. whereas the NAPs are living documents and should be reviewed and updated regularly, while ensuring that they take an integrated, multidimensional approach, take into account the effects of ongoing crises and upcoming events, including international ones and are deeply interconnected with their national, regional and local contexts;
Amendment 6 #
Citation 7 a (new) – having regard to the Council Recommendation of 8 December 2022 on early childhood education and care: the Barcelona targets for 2030,
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 61 #
Recital I I. whereas child poverty has a strong territorial dimension
Amendment 62 #
Recital J J. whereas some countries have lacked transparency and have failed to consult children and families, ECEC staff and service providers, and their representative organisations (including non-governmental organisations (NGOs)) when drafting their NAPs;
Amendment 63 #
Recital J J. whereas some countries
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 65 #
Recital K K. whereas consistent institutional commitment and the engagement of different ministries and agencies and of sub-national authorities as well as their proper coordination 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;
Amendment 66 #
Recital K K. whereas consistent institutional commitment and
Amendment 67 #
Recital L L. whereas some countries have struggled to develop and implement a monitoring framework for their NAPs
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 69 #
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 and on access to basic services, which should be disaggregated and gathered at both national and subnational level; whereas the lack of standardised guidelines for data collection hinders the monitoring of the implementation of the European Child Guarantee;
Amendment 7 #
Citation 7 b (new) – having regard to the Eurofound report “Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU”
Amendment 70 #
Recital L L. whereas some countries
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 72 #
Recital L a (new) Amendment 73 #
Recital L a (new) La. whereas countries that benefited from technical assistance have developed better quality NAPs, with stakeholders' collaboration and targeted measures for effective access of some of the most disadvantaged groups of children to the basic services;
Amendment 74 #
Recital L a (new) Amendment 75 #
Recital L b (new) Lb. whereas Next Generation EU, in particular the Policies for Next Generation Pillar of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans adopted by the Member States under the Recovery and Resilience Facility offer a unique opportunity for significant investments and reforms aimed at improving early childhood education and care, their quality and inclusiveness; whereas the implementation of these measures by the Member States should be closely monitored and should be designed and delivered in synergy with already existing national and European programmes in the field, in particular the Child Guarantee, the European Social Fund Plus and the other European Structural and Investment Funds;
Amendment 76 #
Recital L b (new) Lb. whereas obesity among children is a constantly growing problem; whereas obesity often leads to physical and mental health problems; whereas obesity increases the risk of bullying and discrimination;
Amendment 77 #
Recital L c (new) Lc. whereas Europe is facing a severe housing crisis, especially affecting urban areas in many Member States, both wealthy and less wealthy countries alike, where it has become difficult to find affordable housing at market prices, including for middle-income households, leading to social exclusion and spatial segregation; whereas access to decent and affordable housing is harder for vulnerable groups and families and has a dramatic effect on children and their material and psychological well-being; whereas households with children are generally at a higher risk of severe housing deprivation, and the proportion of children living in an overcrowded household is higher for children living in poverty than for the general population; whereas lack of access to social housing is a barrier for income-poor children caused by an insufficient supply of social housing, leading to long waiting times; whereas properly heated housing with safe water and sanitation and housing in general is a key element for children’s health, well-being, growth and development; whereas adequate housing is also conducive to children learning and studying;
Amendment 78 #
Recital L c (new) Lc. whereas mental health issues amongst children are increasingly becoming a significant public health concern, with anxiety and depression constituting some of the most common types of disorders;
Amendment 79 #
Paragraph 1 1.
Amendment 8 #
Citation 10 a (new) – having regard to the non-paper by Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands and Sweden1a containing input for the declaration of the Porto Social Summit, _________________ 1a https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/ documents/publications/2021/04/23/social -summit-non-paper
Amendment 80 #
Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to
Amendment 81 #
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 especially for the children in greatest need, such as children displaced by the war in Ukraine, homeless children or living in severe housing deprivation, children with disabilities or mental health problems, children with a migrant or ethnic minority background, in particular from the Roma communities;
Amendment 82 #
Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Member States to ensure the full implementation of their NAPs and,
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 84 #
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 85 #
Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to design a national framework for data collection, monitoring and evaluation for their NAPs
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 87 #
Paragraph 3 3. Calls on the Member States to design a national framework for data collection, monitoring and evaluation of
Amendment 88 #
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, gathering disaggregated data at national and subnational level; invites the Member States to create child poverty observatories to gather high- quality, disaggregated per targeted groups and internationally comparable data at national level;
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 9 #
Citation 10 a (new) – having regard to the Eurofound report “Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU;
Amendment 90 #
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;
Amendment 91 #
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; invites the Member States to create child poverty observatories to gather high-quality, disaggregated
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 93 #
Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data on child poverty
Amendment 94 #
Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data on child poverty from the Member States
Amendment 95 #
Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data
Amendment 96 #
Paragraph 4 4. Highlights the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data on child poverty and on access to basic services 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 97 #
Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. stresses the need for improved data collection from the Member States in collaboration with Eurostat, on children living in institutions, accompanied by time-bound targets for bringing children out of institutions and into family settings in the community;
Amendment 98 #
Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Emphasizes the imperative for detailed and context-specific data on child poverty and stresses the importance of aligning chosen indicators with overarching policy objectives, ensuring an evidence-based approach to the European Child Guarantee;
Amendment 99 #
Paragraph 5 5. Underlines the call made by
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