17 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2014/2237(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. Whereas increased social inequalities lead to increased child poverty, children being the age group at greatest risk of poverty in 19 Member States of the EU, social inequalities reproduce disadvantage across generations and data indicate that the gap between rich and poor has increased throughout the EU, including in countries with higher GDP;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. Whereas the destruction of incomes has a major impact on reducing cycles of social inequalitychild poverty stems from poverty of families and, therefore, low- income families, unemployed parents and/or large families are more at risk of poverty and social exclusion as a possible consequence of degrading wage policies and social protection systems;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. Whereas single-parent families, especially families headed by single mothers, are at greater risk of poverty or social exclusion (49.8% compared to 25.2%), which is due to the feminisation of poverty and wage discrimination between men and women; ; however, there are large differences between countries (for instance, 2012 data from EU-SILC 2012 indicates that the AROPE rate among single parents ranges from 35% in Denmark to 78% in Bulgaria); the research shows that the social situation of disadvantaged families is linked not only to the extent of the crisis but also to how countries responded to it;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. Whereas there remain financial, administrative and other practical barriers to education for marginalised groups of children and spending on education expenses, especially as regards school materials and transportation, is essentially borne by households in most countries;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. Whereas all children have the right to be protected from abuse, violence and neglect and that research has concluded that financial pressures within families and cuts in public services put children at greater risk and that so-called austerity measures are leading to greater violence against children;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recommends that Member States increase the quantity, amounts, scope and effectiveness of the social support specifically directed to children, but also to parents (such as unemployment benefits) and their families and to promote labour laws and incentives that guarantee social rights and security to families and fight precarious employment and promote decent work for all;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. RecommendsCalls on thate Member States implement or enhance universal welfare benefits tarto support more numerous and/or poorer families by social benefits as well as by active employment measures facilitating getting children as an intrinsic right of the childdecent jobs and aligning professional life with the family one;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on Member States to introduce legislation to protect or increasemplement and ensure protection of maternity and paternity rights;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recommends that Member States develop proactive social policies that prevent poverty and the departure of children from their family environment, ensuring that it is not through poverty that children are institutionalisedchildren are institutionalised only under exceptional circumstances, and to a larger extent make use of substitute family care such as foster care;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recommends that Member States guarantee all children access to free, quality public education at all ages, including early childhood, and establish appropriate teacher-student ratios care, in particular for socially disadvantaged children;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges Member States to guarantee universal, public, free and quality health care with regard to prevention and primary care, access to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, guaranteeing women the right to sexual and reproductive health by ensuring health care for babies, maternity care in the pre- and post- natal care period, particularly in the case of premature birth, access to family doctors, dentists and mental health specialists for all children, and integrate these aspects into national and the EU public health strategies;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends that Member States provide the necessary support to ensure the right to culture, sport and leisure for all children, with a focus on children in poverty, children in remote areas, children with disabilities, and migrantsmigrant children, children moving within the EU regardless their nationality, and children left behind;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States, particularly those where social inequalities are greater, to strengthen social rights that the state must guarantee, increasing to increase the number of employees and technicians in social security services, and increasinge the medical, psychological and social care of children;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Urges the Commission to make early school leaving rate and tackling child poverty an explicit priority in the European Semester and the Europe 2020 governance;