27 Amendments of Katrin LANGENSIEPEN related to 2023/2811(RSP)
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 9 #
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report “Guaranteeing access to services for children in the EU;
Amendment 24 #
Recital A
A. whereas access to basic serviceshaving effective and free access to quality and free healthcare, includingsive early childhood education and care (ECEC) and healthcare, as well as to education,, school-based activities, and effective access to decent housing and adequate nutrition are key and plays an important role in breaking the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage and lifting children out of poverty and of social exclusion, as it; whereas this can help to tackle the complex and multifaceteddisciplinary nature of poverty and vulnerability;
Amendment 33 #
Recital B
B. wWhereas investing in the youngest generation brings the greatest return and contributes to the growth and prosperity of society as a whole; whereas several Member Stat, several countries 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 addSF+; whereas an EUR 8.9 billion ESF+ support to address child poverty has been programmed by 23 Member States; wheresas the issue; whereasre has been a delay in the implementation of the ESF+ plans thas beent delayed, in turn delaying the reforms to be undertaken under Child Guarantee national action plans (NAPs) and financed through ESF+ Child Guarantee NAPs reforms financed through ESF+; whereas investing in the youngest generation is essential for a prosperous and equal society as a whole, and it can yield a return on investment at societal level at least four times higher than the original costs of the investments;
Amendment 46 #
Recital D
D. whereas many more children are bound to be vulnerable, not only those living in poverty and social exclusion, but also childrenthose living with disabilities, children with a minority racial or ethnic background, children residing in institutions, migrant and refugee children, and so on; whereas etc.; whereas the European Child Guarantee has the potential to improvinge 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 levelshelps establishing structural changes needed for successful long-term life paths ;
Amendment 48 #
Recital E
Amendment 55 #
Recital F
F. whereas 20 months on fromsince the original deadlinue date of March 2022, 24 Member States have adopted their Child Guarantee NAPs, with a focus on the majorNational Action Plans (NAPs) on Child Guarantee taking on board main areas identified in the associated Council Recommendation;
Amendment 61 #
Recital I
I. whereas child poverty has a strong territorial dimension and cooperation with the local authorities is proving conduc; whereas Eurofound research shows that more attention should be given to more effective and sustainable results for children and their familiesthe urban rural divide and to gather evidence at the subnational level;
Amendment 63 #
Recital J
J. whereas some countries have lacked transparency and have failed to consultinclusion of children and families, and their representative organisations (including non-governmental organisations (NGOs)) w the consultation process in then drafting of their NAPs;
Amendment 66 #
Recital K
K. whereas consistent institutional commitment and the engagement of different ministries and agencies and ofs well as of the sub-national authorities presents challenges in a number of countries; whereas nNational cCoordinators are responsible for the coordination and implementation process and for coordinatingof the work of the variousdifferent ministries in charge of implementationresponsible;
Amendment 70 #
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;
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 and internationally comparable data at national levelcomparable data;
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 103 #
Paragraph 6
6. Rreiterates its call forto the Commission to create a citizen-friendly EU-wide monitoring tool; urges the Commission to cooperate with Eurofound to build on their work in the creation of such tool in order to: monitor the development of the Child Guarantee NAPs and the relevant trends at EU level; work towards harmonised quantitative and qualitative data development and collection in all areas relevant for the implementation of the objectives of the ECG and other related policies on children; promote the exchange of practices among Member States and other relevant stakeholders, including engaging in joint initiatives promoting partnerships among Member States and other relevant stakeholders; support Member States in their follow-up on relevant Country Specific Recommendations within the European Semester; reflect on updates in relation to the guidelines of the ECG Recommendation to ensure its full and effective implementation; work in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders, scientific experts and practitioners, as well as consult regularly with children’s fora; promote awareness raising and campaigns; work with Member States on voluntary basis;
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 120 #
Paragraph 10
10. Nnotes that take-up of ECEC remains low amongreduced in low- income families; calls on the Member States to provide more quality places iincrease their capacity on childcare facilities and to support professional training for ECEC staff; and increase its number; asked the Member States in that regard to ensure the five components of the ECEC Quality Framework of the Council recommendation on high-quality early childhood education and care systems are implemented and met; access to early childhood education and care training and working conditions of staff in charge of early childhood education and care definition of appropriate curricula governance and funding monitoring and evaluation of systems
Amendment 127 #
Paragraph 11
11. Ccalls 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 dayensure at least one healthy warm meal each school day for all children given the increase in food poverty in the last years;
Amendment 136 #
Paragraph 13
13. Hhighlights that poor housing is still one of the causes of child poverty, given that it is linked witha human right and access to it being a major problem; informs that according to Eurofound 21,6% of children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, due to experiencing housing cost overburden in the EU in 2022 alone; points out that this is one cause of child poverty being connected to energy poverty and, precarious livworking conditions; invites the of adults and as a consequence poor living conditions; therefore urges Members States, therefore, to assess and measure it and revise their social housing policies and housing benefit systems in order, as well as energy efficiency of buildings to better cater for the needs of vulnerable families;
Amendment 143 #
Paragraph 14
14. Eencourages 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 keyto decrease practical and administrative barriers for all children to access essential services;
Amendment 151 #
Paragraph 15
15. Ccalls on the Member States to promote outreach activities and proactively raise awareness of the European, inform about and provide the Child Guarantee and the's key services that children and families can benefit from;
Amendment 155 #
Paragraph 16
16. Hhighlights the importance of integrating services (free childcare, free healthcare, free education, and housing) as part ofaccessible and affordable housing) in a coordinated approach to reducing child poverty, and of taking a case-by-s well as case management approach for tailored interventions, and stresses that all of these services should be fully inclusive and accessible to children with disabilities and from all backgrounds;
Amendment 163 #
Paragraph 17
17. Ccalls for the Member States to ensure consistherencye between the European Child Guarantee and the rCG and Reinforced Youth Guarantee in order to cover the entire age span from pregnancy to adulthood; birth to adulthood; highlights that in the years to come, data should be gathered and analysed to identify if the beneficiaries of the Child Guarantee remain beneficiaries as well of the Youth Guarantee; calls on Member States to mobilize partnerships at national level that are relevant for both.
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, and asks the Commission to propose options for synergies and blending with other sources of funding;
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, including public-private partnerships; encourages the Member States to work with the European Investment Bank and invest in social infrastructure dedicated to children;
Amendment 187 #
Paragraph 21
21. Ccalls on the Commission to work further work with the Member States by providingfor tailor- made technical expertise through the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) and to take into account the support provided for the Reinforced Youth Guarantee in order to ensure efficiency and optimise resources;
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 214 #
Paragraph 27