12 Amendments of Jill EVANS related to 2017/2039(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reminds that the main objective of YEI is to reach out to all thosyoung people who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs), and therefore urges the Member States to invest more efforts in identifying and targeting all the NEET population, especially the most vulnerable young people such as those with disabilities, takingmproving measures within education systems to help young persons at risk to remain protected, and calls on the MS to develop a better knowledge of the NEET population, especially the most vulnerable young people such as those with disabilities, migrants, refugees, ethnic and religious minorities, and young LGBTI people in order to take better account of their specific needs;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reminds that the main objective of YEI is to reach out to all those who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs), and therefore urges the Member States to invest more efforts in identifying and targeting all the NEET population, especially the most vulnerabledisadvantaged young people such as those with disabilities, taking account of their specific needs; calls on Member States to adopt tailored measures and to provide personalised support in order to reach all NEETs with the objective of registering them; further underlines the need to assess the specific needs and obstacles of each target group and to target measures accordingly;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines in this respect the important role of youth organisations in reaching out to the most vulnerable young people and their capacity to be intermediaries between young people and the public employment services;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Reiterates the need to set up comprehensive communication strategies such as awareness campaigns by using both traditional and modern media channels like social networks;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that the most recent assessment reports1 point out that the first implementation phase of YEI tended to focus mostly on highly educated NEETs, rather than those who are low- skilled, inactive and not registered by the public employment services; notes that according to the European Courts of Auditors unemployed NEETs decreased whereas inactive ones remained stable; recalls therefore the need for cooperation with local stakeholders such as youth organisations, NGOs and social partners with a view to better targeting and reaching out to inactive NEETs; __________________ 1 European Court of Auditors: Special report No 5/2017 on the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative; first results of the Youth Employment Initiative - Final Report; European Commission: Youth Employment Initiative: European Implementation Assessment, October 2016; EPRS In-Depth Analysis, Jan Tymowski, June 2017.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the difficulties of properly assessing the results of the implementation of YEI in view of the lack of well-functioning monitoring and reporting systems, and calls on Member States to focus more closely on the development of follow-up measures with a view to implementing more evidence- based and sustained youth policies; in this regard encourages the Member States, at national, regional and local level, to work closely with youth organizations and grass-roots NGOs;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to identify and diffuse good practices in monitoring and reporting based on its overview of the existing systems across Member States;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Asks Member States to establish an overview of the cost of implementing the Youth Guarantee in order to secure adequate funding and to better reach the objectives of the scheme;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to establish ‘one-stop shops’ with the aim of providing high-quality services and guidance for young people at a single location; reiterates the necessity to make all measures and tools accessible to all, through all possible means of communication;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on Member States to make sure their legislation allows all young people within the identified age group to register and participate effectively in the YEI1a; __________________ 1aThe legislative framework of some countries considers some young people, in particular those with severe disabilities, to be ‘unable to work’. They are not able to register to public employment services and therefore unable to participate in the Youth Employment Initiative.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the importance of improving the quality of offers, and further underline; further stresses the need to address quality in terms of mentoring and coaching, the quality and adequacy of the actual individual training, traineeship or job, as well as the quality of the outcome according to the fixed objectives; underlines in this respect the necessity to ensure the application of the already existing quality frameworks, such as the European Quality Framework, under the YEI; it is of the opinion that young people should be also involved in the monitoring of the quality of the offers; recalls the need to extend the eligible age limit from 25 to 29 in order to better reflect the reality that many young graduates and labour market entrants are in their late ’twenties;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to extend the YEI beyond 2020 and to secure adequate and sustained funding for the next MFF, with a view to achieving sustainable results.