11 Amendments of Lívia JÁRÓKA related to 2023/2811(RSP)
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 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 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 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 141 #
Paragraph 14
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 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 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 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 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;