19 Amendments of Heinz K. BECKER related to 2018/2077(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the achievement of, according to Articles 2, 3 (3) TEU and Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights equality between women and men is one of the core values on which the EU is founded and whereas in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and promote gender equality has been slow andenshrined in Article 8 (TFEU); whereas across the European Union women remain underrepresented in the labour market; whereas the evidence suggests that one of the main causes of this is caring responsibilities; with the overall employment rate of women still being almost 12% lower than that of men; whereas in the EU 31.5% of working women work part-time compared with 8.2% of working men; whereas the evidence suggests that one of the main reason for labour market inactivity for women is related to the lack of possibility to effectively reconcile professional work with family duties, for which provision of care services is crucial;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas closing the gender employment gap is conditional on the fulfilment of basic social rights and the provision of basic social servicit is utmost important to address gender employment gap and to close the gender pension gap standing at a nearly 40% in the EU on average and resulting from accumulated inequalities throughout women’s life cours and their periods of absence in the labour market; whereas provision of care services is instrumental for an effective response to labour shortages;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the current Education and Training 2020 strategy’s EU benchmark on participation of children from 4 to start of primary school has been virtually met and whereas the Barcelona targets have been generally reached in the EU 28 for children under the age of 3 with substantial differences persisting among the Member states suggesting need for continued efforts; whereas the Barcelona targets of providing childcare to at least 33 % of children under 3 years of age (target 1) and to at least 90 % of children between the age of 3 and the mandatory school age (target 2) have been met in just 12 Member States since 2002, with achievement rates in some Member States worryingly low;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas although the number of care homes for the elderly has increased over the last 10 years in nearly all Member States, the demand is still outstripping the availability of care; whereas a lack of disaggregated information at a national level, including on financial investments, and a lack of quality indicators makes this important part of care infrastructure difficult to monitorassess and to produce recommendations for decision- makers at national level;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Stresses that while responsibility for the organisation and content of early childhood education and care systems as well as provision for long-term care rests with the individual Member States, cooperation at European level together with the efficient use of EU funds, can contribute to the development of quality care services by supporting and complementing measures taken at regional and national level as well as helping Member States to address common challenges;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. Points out that while complementing the central role of the family, quality ECEC provides many short-term and long-term benefits for individuals and society, including those with a socioeconomically disadvantaged background or with special educational needs and persons with disabilities;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. Underlines that provision of high- quality early childhood education is an effective investment providing foundation for successful lifelong learning, addressing inequalities and challenges faced by disadvantaged children;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises, however, that the availability of diverse, quality, accessible and affordable public or private care infrastructure, and support for childcare and care for other dependants either institutional, at home or in home-like situations, has proved to be a crucial aspect of work-life balance policies that help women make a swift return to and remain in the labour market;
Amendment 188 #
8a. Points out that quality care provisions in the EU vary greatly within and between the Member States, between private and public settings, between urban and rural areas, as well as between age groups, takes note that high proportion of childcare and long-term care provision is undertaken by families, especially grandparents in case of childcare, which is particularly evident in southern and eastern Europe1b. _________________ 1bEurofound 4th European Quality of Life Survey overview report (4th EQLS) (January 2018) https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/def ault/files/ef_publication/field_ef_docume nt/ef1733en.pdf
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that accessibility derives from a combination of cost and flexibility and that there should therefore be a range of care service provisions, both public and private, and fors well as for institutional care and care at home and in home- like settings; considers, furthermore, that family members should either be able to voluntarily provide care or be subsidised to procure care services;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Further calls on the Commission to develop harmonised definitions and indicatordefinitions to assess the accessibility, quality and efficiency of care services for children, persons with disabilities and the elderly at an EU level; calls on the Commission to monitor their implementation and promote corrective action where and when may be needed;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Member States to develop national plans forcollect quality data on provision of care services available through public and private financing for children, elderly and person with disabilities, necessary to monitor situation at large and to improvinge care services by paying heed not only to users’ needs, but also to the work-life balance of the large numbers of carers; calls on the Member States to monitor their implementation and adoptadopt effective policy instruments and corrective actions where and when may ben needed;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. UrgesCalls on the Commission to present to the Council for approval a European carers’ programme,commit a study with a view to identifying and recognising the various types of informaland needs of care-giving in Europe, and guaranteeing financial support for carers, andthis way helping progressively developingto address their work-life balance by the Member States;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Takes note of various practices in the Member States, for example public childcare and child-rearing allowance (vårdnadsbidrag) in Sweden or guaranteed day care in Denmark; calls on the Commission to serve as a platform to exchange best practices among the Member States with regard to different models of provision for care services tailored to individual situation and financial capabilities to address care challenges;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Invites the Commission to revise the Barcelona targets and targets on early childhood education, in consultation with Member States, given the individual progress reached and the existing needs of European families;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to setconsider setting up targets on care services for the elderly and for persons with disabilities, in consultation with the Member States;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the provision of funding for all types of care services through the European Social Fund+ and other financial instrumentstake a comprehensive approach towards all types of care services and to strengthen the provisions for efficient and synergistic use of the relevant EU financial instruments in the fields of lifelong learning, research and infrastructural development, -in particular through the existing European Fund for strategic Investments (EFSI), European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds), such as the European Social Fund (ESF), and the and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), as well as European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD); takes note of the proposal for the European Social Fund+ and other financial instruments, including InvestEU fund (Single Investment Fund) enabling great public-private infrastructural investment, whose purpose is to fund socialalso fund care infrastructure; encourages Member States to prioritise funding for childcare and long-term care using the existing and similar financial instruments available within the next MFF;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)