7 Amendments of Jean Louis COTTIGNY related to 2008/2034(INI)
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – point (b)
Paragraph 10 – point (b)
(b) ensuring that children grow up in families with sufficient resources to meet all aspects of their emotional, social, physical and cognitive needs, thus preventing them from being placed in state institutions just because of their parents’ poverty;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to establish common criteria for all its directorates-general when they draw up child poverty statistics, which should not simply take account of the economic element;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Urges the Member States to put in place preventive systems to detect critical situations such as parents about to lose their home, abrupt removal of children from school or cases of abuse suffered by parents during their own childhood, given that statistics show a causal link between this circumstance and child abuse;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Urges the Member States to introduce training for parents in various fields where poverty leads to lack of knowledge with regard to bringing up children;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Urges Member States to devolve to their local authorities the power to set up and run systems to assist children in trouble, to ensure that they are as efficient as possible;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Calls on the Commission to incorporate services for children such as child care, school transport and school meals in the list of general interest social services;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Member States to reduce child poverty by 50 % by 2012, using indicators that are not solely economic, as a first commitment towards the eradication of child poverty in the EU;