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European Parliament 2019-2024

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

PE691.204v01-00

6.4.2021

AMENDMENTS 1 - 169

Draft motion for a resolution Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová (PE689.853v01-00)

European Child Guarantee

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PE691.204v01-00 2/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 1

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– having regard to Articles 2 and 3 of – having regard to Articles 2, 3 and 5 the Treaty on European Union (TEU), of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),

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Amendment 2 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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– having regard to the objective of – having regard to the objectives cohesion established under Article 3 of the established under Article 3 of the TEU, in TEU, in particular to upward social particular to combat social exclusion and convergence, discrimination, promote social justice, economic, social and territorial cohesion and protection of the rights of the child,

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Amendment 3 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 7

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Amendment 4 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 7

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– having regard to the European – having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights and, in particular, to Pillar of Social Rights and, in particular, to principles 3, 4 and 11, principle 3 thereof on equal opportunities, principle 4 thereof on active support to employment, principle 11 thereof on childcare and support to children, principle 14 thereof on minimum income, principle 16 thereof on health care, principle 17 thereof on inclusion of people with disabilities, principle 19 thereof on housing and assistance for the homeless, principle 20 thereof on access to essential services,

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Amendment 5 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 11

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– having regard to the UN – having regard to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in particular Goals 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10,

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Amendment 6 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna

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Draft motion for a resolution Citation 16

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– having regard to the poverty and deleted social exclusion target set out in the Europe 2020 Strategy,

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Amendment 7 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 a (new)

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– having regard to the European Social Fund Plus Regulation,

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Amendment 8 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 b (new)

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– having regard to the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation,

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Amendment 9 Brando Benifei

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AM\1228042EN.docx 5/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Citation 17 c (new)

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– having regard to the React EU Regulation,

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Amendment 10 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 d (new)

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– having regard to the Commission Feasibility Study on the Child Guarantee,

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Amendment 11 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 e (new)

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– having regard to its written declaration, under Rule 136 of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, on investing in children 0042/2015, adopted in March 2016,

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Amendment 12 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 f (new)

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– having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on access to decent and affordable housing for all (2019/2187(INI)),

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Amendment 13 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 17 g (new)

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– having regard to Council Recommendation on High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Care Systems,

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Amendment 14 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 18 a (new)

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– having regard the resolution of 11 March 2021 on children’s rights in view of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child1, ______1https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/do cument/TA-9-2021-0090_EN.html

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AM\1228042EN.docx 7/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 15 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 19a (new)

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– having regard to the report on reducing inequalities with a special focus on child poverty of 2015 1 ______1 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/A-8-2015-0310_EN.html

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Amendment 16 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 23 a (new)

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– having regard to the report on access to decent and affordable housing for all,

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Amendment 17 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 31 a (new)

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– having regard to its resolution of 18 June 2020 on the European Disability Strategy post-20201;

PE691.204v01-00 8/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN ______1 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/B-9-2020-0123_EN.html

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Amendment 18 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 a (new)

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– having regard to the UN policy brief of 15 April 2020 entitled ‘The impact of COVID-19 on children’1, ______

1 160420_Covid_Children_Policy_Brief.pdf (un.org)

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Amendment 19 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 b (new)

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– having regard to its resolution of 11 March 2021 on children’s rights in view of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child (2021/2523(RSP)),

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AM\1228042EN.docx 9/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 20 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 c (new)

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– having regard to the Commission Recommendation on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market 2008/867/EC of 3 October 2008,

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Amendment 21 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 d (new)

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– having regard to the Council Recommendation on the integration of the long-term unemployed into the labour market,

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Amendment 22 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 e (new)

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– having regard to the Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers,

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PE691.204v01-00 10/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 23 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 f (new)

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– having regard to the Council Recommendation on access to social protection,

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Amendment 24 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 g (new)

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– having regard to the new Skills Agenda,

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Amendment 25 Miriam Lexmann

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 32 h (new)

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– having regard to Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU;

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Amendment 26 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A

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A. whereas the proposal for a Council A. whereas the proposal for a Council Recommendation establishing the Recommendation establishing the European Child Guarantee complements European Child Guarantee must the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child complement the EU Strategy on the Rights adopted on 24 March 2021, which by of the Child, both adopted on 24 March bringing together all existing and future 2021, which by bringing together all initiatives on children’s rights under one existing and future initiatives on children’s coherent policy framework, puts forward rights under one coherent policy recommendations for both internal and framework, puts forward recommendations external EU action; for both internal and external EU action;

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Amendment 27 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the issue of children’s rights is directly linked to their access to social inclusion, access to a safe and adequate environment for growing-up, access to basic utilities and nutrition and to early life child-care and education; whereas child poverty has been identified by international organizations such as the Council of Europe and NGOs such as UNICEF as both a potential cause of children's rights violations and a potential outcome of those violations, through the

PE691.204v01-00 12/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN impact it has on the children’s enjoyment of rights, and a result of the failure to secure the aforementioned rights;

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Amendment 28 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A b (new)

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Ab. whereas children growing up with a scarcity of resources and precarious family situations are more likely to experience poverty and social exclusion with far-reaching impacts for their development and eventual adulthood and lack access to adequate skills and have limited employment options, propagating a vicious cycle of inter-generational poverty;

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Amendment 29 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A c (new)

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Ac. whereas the six categories identified in the Child Guarantee proposal are those at most risk who need immediate concern and care, while the objectives of the Guarantee should be understood to apply, as much as possible, to all children in the Union;

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Amendment 30 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A d (new)

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Ad. whereas the issue of child-poverty and social exclusion is a pervasive problem found across all societies, best addressed by comprehensive and wide policies, narrow in application and wide in scope, targeting both children but also their families and communities and by prioritising investments in the creation of new opportunities and solutions over expenditure and in the solving of which all parts of society must be involved, from local, regional, national and European authorities, civil society and the private sector;

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Amendment 31 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital A e (new)

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Ae. whereas research shows that investment in children, for example in high quality early childhood education and care can yield a return investment at society level at least four times higher than the costs of the investments themselves, without taking into account the greater benefits for businesses in

PE691.204v01-00 14/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN terms of skilled labourers or for welfare systems that are unburdened from further expenses for any child that has the access to social inclusion1; whereas budgetary procedures should recognise investment in children as a distinct investment category and distinct from regular social expenditure; ______1. University of Pennsylvania Study on High Return on Investment (ROI): https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early- childhood-toolkit/why-invest/what-is-the- return-on-investment/

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Amendment 32 Eugen Tomac

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Amendment 33 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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Amendment 34 Sandra Pereira

Draft motion for a resolution Recital B

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B. whereas in 2019, 22.2% of children B. whereas in 2019, 22.2% of children in the EU– almost 18 million children – in the EU– almost 18 million children – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas children from low-income whereas one out of 10 workers in the EU families are at a higher risk of severe is at risk of poverty; whereas the levels of housing deprivation or overcrowding, and poverty in the EU, including child face barriers in accessing services, which poverty, are unacceptable and fiscal are key for their wellbeing and the restrictive policies have been development of social, cognitive, and counterproductive to eradicate it; whereas emotional skills; children from low-income families are at a higher risk of severe housing deprivation or overcrowding, and face barriers in accessing fundamental and basic services, which are key for their wellbeing and the development of social, cognitive, and emotional skills;

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PE691.204v01-00 16/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 35 Katrin Langensiepen

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B. whereas in 2019, 22.2% of children B. whereas in 2019, 22.2% of children in the EU– almost 18 million children – in the EU– almost 18 million children – were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas children from low-income whereas children from low-income families are at a higher risk of severe families are at a higher risk of severe housing deprivation or overcrowding, and housing deprivation or overcrowding, and face barriers in accessing services, which face barriers in accessing services, which are key for their wellbeing and the are key for their wellbeing and the development of social, cognitive, and development of social, cognitive, and emotional skills; emotional skills; whereas these figures are to expected to escalate exponentially due to the COVID 19 pandemic and its socio economic consequences, which will affect millions of children in Europe throughout their live cycle; whereas before the COVID -19 outbreak, already 68 % of Romani children left school early because of poverty and discrimination; Whereas the COVID-19 crisis has worsened the situation of marginalised children, living in overcrowded and inhumane conditions with limited access to healthcare, drinking water, sanitation and food, putting them more at risk of contracting the virus;

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Amendment 36 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas the number of children with disabilities is unknown owing to a

AM\1228042EN.docx 17/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN lack of statistics, but may be in the region of 15 % of the total number of children in the Union; whereas children with disabilities should fully enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, including the right to grow up in their families or a family environment in line with their best interests as defined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; whereas family members often have to reduce or stop professional activities in order to care for family members with a disability; whereas the Commission Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee (intermediate report) points out that the main barriers identified for children with disabilities are problems involving physical access, the non-adaptation of services and facilities to children’s needs and, in many cases, simply the non availability thereof; whereas in the same study many respondents pointed to problems of discrimination, specifically in relation to problems relating to education, and affordability in relation to problems relating to housing;

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Amendment 37 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Recital B b (new)

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Bb. whereas, according to the Commission, households with children are generally at a higher risk of severe housing deprivation, and the proportion of children living in an overcrowded household is higher for children living in poverty than for the general population; whereas lack of access to social housing is a barrier for income-poor children caused

PE691.204v01-00 18/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN by an insufficient supply of social housing, leading to long waiting times; whereas properly heated housing with safe water and sanitation and housing in general is a key element for children’s health, well-being, growth and development; whereas adequate housing is also conducive to children learning and studying1; ______1 Feasibility study for a Child Guarantee: Target Group Discussion Paper on Children living in Precarious Family Situations

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Amendment 38 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Recital B c (new)

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Bc. whereas children’s rights cannot be achieved without the successful implementation of the UN SDGs and vice versa;

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Amendment 39 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Recital C

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C. whereas the European Parliament C. whereas all children have the right called for the creation of a Child Guarantee to protection from poverty, thereby to ensure that each child living in poverty stressing the need for preventive policies; has access to quality and free healthcare, whereas the Parliament called for the

AM\1228042EN.docx 19/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN education, childcare and decent housing creation of a Child Guarantee to ensure that and adequate nutrition; whereas the each child living in poverty has access to European Union Agency for Fundamental quality and free healthcare, education, Rights has highlighted that fighting child childcare and decent housing and adequate poverty is also a matter of fundamental nutrition; whereas the European Union rights and legal obligations1; Agency for Fundamental Rights has highlighted that fighting child poverty is also a matter of fundamental rights and legal obligations; ______1. FRA report entitled ‘Combating child 1. FRA report entitled ‘Combating child poverty: an issue of fundamental rights‘, poverty: an issue of fundamental rights‘, https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/c https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/c hild-poverty hild-poverty

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Amendment 40 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital C

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C. whereas the European Parliament C. whereas the Parliament, alongside called for the creation of a Child Guarantee European civil society, has repeatedly to ensure that each child living in poverty called for the creation of a Child Guarantee has access to quality and free healthcare, to ensure that each child living in poverty education, childcare and decent housing has access to quality and free healthcare, and adequate nutrition; whereas the education including early-childhood European Union Agency for Fundamental education, childcare and decent housing Rights has highlighted that fighting child and adequate nutrition; whereas the poverty is also a matter of fundamental European Union Agency for Fundamental rights and legal obligations1; Rights has highlighted that fighting child poverty is also a matter of fundamental rights and legal obligations1 ; ______1. FRA report entitled ‘Combating child 1. FRA report entitled ‘Combating child poverty: an issue of fundamental rights‘, poverty: an issue of fundamental rights‘, https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/c https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/c hild-poverty hild-poverty

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PE691.204v01-00 20/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 41 Sandra Pereira

Draft motion for a resolution Recital C a (new)

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Ca. whereas eradicating child poverty will necessarily imply that children parents/caregivers have access to work with rights, with decent wages and secure and stable working arrangements;

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Amendment 42 Eugen Tomac

Draft motion for a resolution Recital D

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D. whereas this proposal offers D. whereas this proposal offers concrete guidance to Member States to concrete guidance to Member States to offer children in need effective and free guarantee free access to high quality, access to Early Childhood Education and inclusive and safe education, including Care (ECEC), education (including sports, early childhood education and care (ECEC), leisure and cultural activities) and sports, leisure and cultural activities for healthcare, for effective access to healthy every child, and for those in need in nutrition and adequate housing, to address particular; whereas Member States should poverty and foster equal opportunities for promote policies to ensure accessible and children at the national, regional and local affordable housing for children in need, level; heatlhy nutrition, as well as access to healthcare services, to address poverty and foster equal opportunities for all children at the national, regional and local level;

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Amendment 43 Sandra Pereira

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D. whereas this proposal offers D. whereas this proposal offers concrete guidance to Member States to concrete guidance to Member States to offer children in need effective and free offer children in need effective and free access to Early Childhood Education and access to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), education (including sports, Care (ECEC), education (including sports, leisure and cultural activities) and leisure and cultural activities) and healthcare, for effective access to healthy healthcare, for effective access to healthy nutrition and adequate housing, to address nutrition and adequate housing, to address poverty and foster equal opportunities for poverty and foster equal opportunities for children at the national, regional and local children at the national, regional and local level; level; whereas every child has the right to play;

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Amendment 44 Eugen Tomac

Draft motion for a resolution Recital E

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E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated leaving millions of is expected to leave children and families children and families in an even more in an even more precarious socio- precarious socio- economic situation; economic situation; whereas low- and whereas low- and middle-income middle-income individuals and families are individuals and families are at a higher risk at a higher risk of poverty when of poverty when unemployment increases, unemployment increases, and whereas and whereas children’s wellbeing, children’s wellbeing, including their including their mental health, can be at risk mental health, can be at risk; due to increased domestic violence and online abuse and exploitation;

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Amendment 45 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel,

PE691.204v01-00 22/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated leaving millions of has exacerbated the already difficult children and families in an even more circumstances of millions of children and precarious socio- economic situation; families, putting them and many more whereas low- and middle-income others in an even more precarious socio- individuals and families are at a higher risk economic situation; whereas low- and of poverty when unemployment increases, middle-income individuals and families are and whereas children’s wellbeing, at a higher risk of poverty when including their mental health, can be at risk unemployment increases and various due to increased domestic violence and costs, such as healthcare or the need to online abuse and exploitation; invest in digital education solutions, appear, and whereas children’s wellbeing, including their mental health, can be at risk due to increased domestic violence and online abuse and exploitation;

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Amendment 46 Katrin Langensiepen

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E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic E. whereas before the outbreak of has exacerbated leaving millions of COVID-19, children were twice as likely children and families in an even more as adults to be living in extreme poverty; precarious socio- economic situation; whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has whereas low- and middle-income exacerbated leaving millions of children individuals and families are at a higher risk and families in an even more precarious of poverty when unemployment increases, socio- economic situation; whereas as a and whereas children’s wellbeing, consequence of the pandemic, it is including their mental health, can be at risk estimated that the number of children due to increased domestic violence and living below their respective national online abuse and exploitation; poverty lines could soar by as many as 117 million, and approximately 150 million additional children are living in multidimensional poverty; whereas low-

AM\1228042EN.docx 23/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN and middle-income individuals, especially single-parent families, LGBTIQ families, and Roma families, suffer greater structural discrimination and are and are at a higher risk of poverty when unemployment increases, and whereas children’s wellbeing, including their mental health, can be at risk due to increased domestic violence and online abuse and exploitation;

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Amendment 47 Brando Benifei

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E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic E. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated leaving millions of has exacerbated the situation of children children and families in an even more at risk of poverty and social exclusion precarious socio- economic situation; leaving millions of children and families whereas low- and middle-income even more in a precarious socio- economic individuals and families are at a higher risk situation; whereas low- and middle-income of poverty when unemployment increases, individuals and families are at a higher risk and whereas children’s wellbeing, of poverty when unemployment increases, including their mental health, can be at they are also at higher risk of severe risk due to increased domestic violence housing deprivation, housing insecurity, and online abuse and exploitation; over-indebtedness, eviction and homelessness;

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Amendment 48 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital E a (new)

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Ea. whereas there is an alarming rise in the number of children whose parents lost their employment and/or accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic, or of children who were deprived of their most nutritious daily meal, as well as access to after school services like sports, leisure, artistic and cultural activities, which nurture their development and well-being;

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Amendment 49 Eugen Tomac

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Eb. whereas access to running water and sanitation varies considerably across the Union, with an average connection to 80% to 90% sewerage systems in northern, southern and central Europe, and a much lower average connection to sewerage and water treatment systems amounting to 64% in Eastern Europe;

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Amendment 50 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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F. whereas the shift to distance F. whereas an already exiting shift to

AM\1228042EN.docx 25/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN learning and the lack of access to internet distance learning has accelerated in 2020, connection and digital tools have which coupled with the lack of access to particularly affected very young children internet connection and digital tools and with special needs, those living in poverty, infrastructure have particularly affected in marginalised communities and in remote very young children with special needs, and rural areas; whereas there is an those living in poverty, in marginalised alarming rise in the number of children communities and in remote and rural areas, whose parents lost their accommodation, including outlying regions and territories; or of children who were deprived of their whereas the lack of access to digital most nutritious daily meal, as well as solutions and opportunities for digital access to after school services like sports, education can severely restrict later access leisure, artistic and cultural activities, to education and employment for young which nurture their development and people, depriving them of better labour well-being; market opportunities and also depriving European businesses of potential workers;

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Amendment 51 Katrin Langensiepen

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F. whereas the shift to distance F. whereas the forced shift to distance learning and the lack of access to internet learning due to the COVID 19 pandemic connection and digital tools have and thus the lack of access to internet particularly affected very young children connection and digital tools have with special needs, those living in poverty, particularly excluded very young children in marginalised communities and in remote with special needs, those living in poverty, and rural areas; whereas there is an in marginalised communities and in remote alarming rise in the number of children and rural areas increasing the group of whose parents lost their accommodation, children that lost a structural safety net or of children who were deprived of their and thereby conditioning their education most nutritious daily meal, as well as path from an early age; whereas there is access to after school services like sports, an alarming rise in the number of children leisure, artistic and cultural activities, whose parents lost their accommodation or which nurture their development and well- jobs and therefore were deprived of their being; most nutritious daily meal, as well as access to after school services like sports, leisure, artistic and cultural activities, which nurture their development and wellbeing;

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Amendment 52 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Recital F a (new)

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Fa. whereas there is an urgency in supporting children who are hardest to reach, and suffer multiple forms of exclusion, such as homeless children, children with a migrant or ethnic minority background, children in the care system or leaving care, children with disabilities, or other precarious situation;

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Amendment 53 Miriam Lexmann

Draft motion for a resolution Recital F b (new)

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Fb. whereas children with disabilities in the EU are disproportionately more likely to be placed in institutional care than children without disabilities and appear far less likely to benefit from efforts to enable a transition from institutional to family-based care; whereas children with disabilities continue being segregated in education by placing in special schools and face physical and other barriers that prevent them to enjoy inclusive education process; whereas the COVID-19 pandemics left many children with intellectual disabilities without the possibility to carry on with their education as the online

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Amendment 54 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital F c (new)

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Fc. Whereas digital solutions, and other assistive technologies for children with disabilities can enable and accelerate the process of social inclusion and later- life access to more opportunities; whereas therefore equal access is key in this regard;

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Amendment 55 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital F d (new)

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Fd. whereas the Union can play a key role in the overall fight against child poverty and social exclusion, for all children, including the six key categories identified by the Commission, by providing EU-level coordination, technical assistance and support and insuring the exchange of best practices and addressing gaps in national legislations, particularly in regards to the children of mobile citizens; whereas this coordination can be best achieved, while

PE691.204v01-00 28/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN respecting subsidiarity and national particularities, by expanding the national coordinators system proposed by the Guarantee and building upon the current European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) of the Commission through an European Authority for Children;

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Amendment 56 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Recital F e (new)

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Fe. whereas children of mobile EU citizens often fall in between the gaps of national legislations; whereas while reducing poverty in the short term, labour migration leading to children being left behind can exacerbate their social underdevelopment and lead to precarity, which children of migrant parents who are still residing in their country of origin having greater chances of being marginalised, mistreated and abused, which is particularly relevant for intra- EU labour mobility1; ______1 UNICEF Study on the impact of parental deprivation on the children left behind by Moldovan migrants https://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/files/T he_Impact_of_Parental_Deprivation_on_ the_Development_of_Children(4).pdf

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Amendment 57 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel,

AM\1228042EN.docx 29/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one of the flagship social policy initiatives of the flagship social policy initiatives listed in the Commission’s political listed in the Commission’s political guidelines and in its Work Programme guidelines and in its Work Programme 2021; whereas the European Pillar of 2021 and must be further augmented in Social Rights and the 2013 Commission the future by new and ambitious Recommendation ‘Investing in Children: legislative tools; whereas the issue must Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ be on the agenda of the Conference for remain important tools to reduce child the Future of Europe; whereas in the poverty and improve child well-being; Action Plan on implementing the European whereas in the Action Plan on Pillar of Social Rights the Commission has implementing the European Pillar of Social set out the ambitious target of reducing the Rights the Commission has set out the number of people at risk of poverty or ambitious target of reducing the number of social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 people at risk of poverty or social million by 2030 – including at least 5 exclusion in the EU by at least 15 million million children; by 2030 – including at least 5 million children;

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Amendment 58 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Recital G

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PE691.204v01-00 30/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Pillar of Social Rights the Commission has implementing the European Pillar of Social set out the ambitious target of reducing the Rights the Commission has set out a target number of people at risk of poverty or of reducing the number of people at risk of social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 poverty or social exclusion in the EU by at million by 2030 – including at least 5 least 15 million by 2030 – including at million children; least 5 million children ;

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Amendment 59 Sandra Pereira

Draft motion for a resolution Recital G

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G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one of the flagship social policy initiatives of the flagship social policy initiatives listed in the Commission’s political listed in the Commission’s political guidelines and in its Work Programme guidelines and in its Work Programme 2021; whereas the European Pillar of 2021; whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights and the 2013 Commission Social Rights and the 2013 Commission Recommendation ‘Investing in Children: Recommendation ‘Investing in Children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ remain Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ remain important tools to reduce child poverty and important tools to reduce child poverty and improve child well-being; whereas in the improve child well-being; whereas in the Action Plan on implementing the European Action Plan on implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights the Commission has Pillar of Social Rights the Commission has set out the ambitious target of reducing the set out the weak target of reducing the number of people at risk of poverty or number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 million by 2030 – including at least 5 million by 2030 – including at least 5 million children; million children, meaning that 78 million people, of which 13 million children would remain in poverty;

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Amendment 60 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Recital G

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G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one G. whereas the Child Guarantee is one of the flagship social policy initiatives of the flagship social policy initiatives listed in the Commission’s political listed in the Commission’s political guidelines and in its Work Programme guidelines and in its Work Programme 2021; whereas the European Pillar of 2021; whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights and the 2013 Commission Social Rights and the 2013 Commission Recommendation ‘Investing in Children: Recommendation ‘Investing in Children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ remain Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ remain important tools to reduce child poverty and important tools to reduce child poverty, improve child well-being; whereas in the improve child well-being and provide for Action Plan on implementing the European a stable future, while reducing early Pillar of Social Rights the Commission has school drop-outs; whereas in the Action set out the ambitious target of reducing the Plan on implementing the European Pillar number of people at risk of poverty or of Social Rights the Commission has set social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 out the ambitious target of reducing the million by 2030 – including at least 5 number of people at risk of poverty or million children; social exclusion in the EU by at least 15 million by 2030 – including at least 5 million children; whereas the multiple gender gaps such as the so called “dream gap” or the “entitlement gap” and lack of women representation in leadership position condition girls career and education choices from an early age and therefore contribute to increasing inequality in certain sectors of the job market between men and women, in particular STEM careers;

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Amendment 61 Eugen Tomac

Draft motion for a resolution Recital G a (new)

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Ga. whereas local and regional authorities are at the forefront of work to tackle child poverty and exploitation and therefore have a crucial responsibility in preventing marginalisation and social

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Amendment 62 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph -1a (new)

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-1a. welcomes the proposal by the Commission for a Council Recommendation establishing the Child Guarantee, whose objective is to prevent and combat poverty and social exclusion by guaranteeing the free and effective access of children in need to key services such early childhood education and care, education and school-based activities, healthcare and at least one healthy meal each school day and healthy nutrition and adequate housing for all children in need; calls on the Council and the Member States to be ambitious in the full and rapid adoption of the Recommendation and in its implementation; expects the inputs in this Resolution to be taken into account in view of the adoption of the Council Recommendation;

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Amendment 63 Brando Benifei

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-1a. Stresses that the Child Guarantee aims at providing public support to prevent and combat social exclusion by guaranteeing the access of children in need to a set of key services, which means that Member States should either organise and provide such services or provide adequate benefits so that parents or guardians of children in need are in a position to cover for these services;

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Amendment 64 Sandra Pereira

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 1

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1. Welcomes the Communication 1. Takes note of the Communication from the Commission on the EU Strategy from the Commission on the EU Strategy of the Rights of the Child and endorses its of the Rights of the Child and endorses its objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for the respect and protection of the rights of the respect and protection of the rights of every child alongside a common project for every child alongside a common project for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for all. Acknowledges that the Commission all. Acknowledges that the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation proposal for a Council recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee establishing a European Child Guarantee complements the Strategy and focuses on complements the Strategy and focuses on children in need. Endorses its main goal to children in need. Endorses its main goal to fight child poverty and social exclusion fight child poverty and social exclusion and promote equal opportunities; strongly and promote equal opportunities, but supports the concrete guidance given to deeply regrets its lack of ambition; competent national and local authorities to strongly supports the concrete guidance provide children in need with access to a given to competent national and local set of key services, like education, authorities to provide children in need with healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, access to a set of key services, like on the same footing as their peers; education, healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, on the same footing as their peers;

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Amendment 65 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 1

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1. Welcomes the Communication 1. Welcomes the Communication from the Commission on the EU Strategy from the Commission on the EU strategy of the Rights of the Child and endorses its of the rights of the child and endorses its objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for the respect and protection of the rights of the respect and protection of the rights of every child alongside a common project for every child alongside a common project for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for healthier, resilient, fairer societies for all; all. Acknowledges that the Commission acknowledges that the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation proposal for a Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee establishing a European Child Guarantee complements the Strategy and focuses on complements the Strategy and focuses on children in need. Endorses its main goal to children in need; endorses its main goal to fight child poverty and social exclusion fight child poverty and social exclusion and promote equal opportunities; strongly and promote equal opportunities; strongly supports the concrete guidance given to supports the concrete guidance given to competent national and local authorities to competent national and local authorities to provide children in need with access to a provide children in need with access to a set of key services, like education, set of key services, such as free quality healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, education, early childhood education and on the same footing as their peers; care, healthcare, adequate housing and healthy nutrition, on the same footing as their peers;

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Amendment 66 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 1

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AM\1228042EN.docx 35/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for the respect and protection of the rights of the respect and protection of the rights of every child alongside a common project for every child alongside a common project for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for all. Acknowledges that the Commission all. Believes that the Commission proposal proposal for a Council recommendation for a Council recommendation establishing establishing a European Child Guarantee a European Child Guarantee must complements the Strategy and focuses on complement the Strategy and focus on children in need. Endorses its main goal to children in need to establish a European fight child poverty and social exclusion enabling framework to vindicate and promote equal opportunities; strongly children’s rights and place them at the supports the concrete guidance given to heart of EU policy. Endorses its main goal competent national and local authorities to to fight child poverty and social exclusion provide children in need with access to a and promote equal opportunities for all; set of key services, like education, strongly supports the concrete guidance healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, given to competent national and local on the same footing as their peers; authorities to provide children in need with effective access or effective and free access to a set of key services in accordance with national circumstances and approaches, like education, healthcare, childcare, housing and healthy nutrition, on the same footing as their peers;

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Amendment 67 Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Dragoș Pîslaru, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 1

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PE691.204v01-00 36/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN children in need. Endorses its main goal to children in need. Endorses its main goal to fight child poverty and social exclusion fight child poverty and social exclusion and promote equal opportunities; strongly and promote equal opportunities and supports the concrete guidance given to health; strongly supports the concrete competent national and local authorities to guidance given to competent national and provide children in need with access to a local authorities to provide children in need set of key services, like education, with access to a set of key services, like healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, education, healthcare and prevention, on the same footing as their peers; housing and healthy nutrition, on the same footing as their peers;

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Amendment 68 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 1

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1. Welcomes the Communication 1. Welcomes the Communication from the Commission on the EU Strategy from the Commission on the EU Strategy of the Rights of the Child and endorses its of the Rights of the Child and endorses its objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for objectives to fulfil shared responsibility for the respect and protection of the rights of the respect and protection of the rights of every child alongside a common project for every child alongside a common project for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for healthier, resilient, and fairer societies for all. Acknowledges that the Commission all. Acknowledges that the Commission proposal for a Council recommendation proposal for a Council recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee establishing a European Child Guarantee complements the Strategy and focuses on complements the Strategy and focuses on children in need. Endorses its main goal to children in need. Endorses its main goal to fight child poverty and social exclusion fight child poverty and social exclusion and promote equal opportunities; strongly and promote equal, inclusive opportunities; supports the concrete guidance given to strongly supports the concrete guidance competent national and local authorities to given to competent national and local provide children in need with access to a authorities to provide children in need with set of key services, like education, access to a set of key services, like free healthcare, housing and healthy nutrition, early education, healthcare, housing, on the same footing as their peers; leisure and healthy nutrition, on the same footing as their peers;

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Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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2. Calls on EU governments to tackle 2. Calls on EU governments to tackle the structural problems causing child the structural problems causing child poverty and social exclusion. Calls on poverty and social exclusion by promoting Member States to secure the effective a high level of employment and social establishment of the European Child inclusion in particular for disadvantaged Guarantee across the Union, building on groups. Calls on Member States to secure the achievements of existing EU policies the effective establishment of the European and funds; Stresses the importance of Child Guarantee and its delivery across the competent authorities at national and local Union, avoiding silo policies and by level to guarantee effective and free access mainstreaming the Guarantee across all to early childhood education and care, policy sectors and urges them to make use education and school-based activities as of existing EU policies and funds for the well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, implementation of concrete measures affordable access to healthy nutrition, as directed at eradicating child poverty and well as adequate housing for all children in social exclusion; Stresses the importance need; of competent authorities at national and local level to guarantee effective and free access to early childhood education and care, education and school-based activities as well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, and effective access to healthy nutrition, as well as adequate housing for all children in need;

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Amendment 70 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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PE691.204v01-00 38/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN establishment of the European Child establishment of the European Child Guarantee across the Union, building on Guarantee across the Union, building on the achievements of existing EU policies the achievements of existing EU policies and funds; Stresses the importance of and funds and based on strong targets competent authorities at national and local defined in the national action plans; level to guarantee effective and free access Stresses the importance of competent to early childhood education and care, authorities at national and local level to education and school-based activities as guarantee effective and free access, well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, without administrative discriminating affordable access to healthy nutrition, as burdens to early childhood education and well as adequate housing for all children in care, education and school-based activities need; as well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, affordable access to healthy nutrition, as well as adequate housing for all children in need; stresses also that the competent authorities at national and local level be informed, trained and supported in securing EU funding; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure children’s right to adequate housing, by providing related support to parents having difficulties with keeping or accessing housing, so that they can remain with their children, with particular attention on young adults exiting child welfare institutions; stresses that adequate housing excludes homeless shelters even for a transition or short period;

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Amendment 71 Sandra Pereira

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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2. Calls on EU governments to tackle 2. Calls on the EU and Member the structural problems causing child States governments to tackle the structural poverty and social exclusion. Calls on problems causing child poverty and social Member States to secure the effective exclusion. Urges, therefore, a shift in establishment of the European Child economic, social and labour policies in Guarantee across the Union, building on order to achieve full-employment and the achievements of existing EU policies higher wages and income for the workers

AM\1228042EN.docx 39/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN and funds; Stresses the importance of and their families in all Member States; competent authorities at national and local hence, ensuring that the poverty cycle is level to guarantee effective and free access broken; Calls on Member States to secure to early childhood education and care, the effective establishment of the European education and school-based activities as Child Guarantee across the Union, building well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, on the achievements of existing EU affordable access to healthy nutrition, as policies and funds; Stresses the importance well as adequate housing for all children in of competent authorities at national and need; local level to guarantee effective and free access to quality early childhood education and care, education and school-based activities as well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, affordable access to healthy nutrition, as well as adequate housing for all children;

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Amendment 72 Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Dragoș Pîslaru, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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2. Calls on EU governments to tackle 2. Calls on EU governments to tackle the structural problems causing child the structural problems causing child poverty and social exclusion. Calls on poverty and social exclusion. Calls on Member States to secure the effective Member States to secure the effective establishment of the European Child establishment of the European Child Guarantee across the Union, building on Guarantee across the Union, building on the achievements of existing EU policies the achievements of existing EU policies and funds; Stresses the importance of and funds; Stresses the importance of competent authorities at national and local competent authorities at national and local level to guarantee effective and free access level to guarantee effective and free access to early childhood education and care, to early childhood education, health education and school-based activities as prevention and care, education and school- well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, based activities as well as sport, leisure and affordable access to healthy nutrition, as cultural activities, affordable access to well as adequate housing for all children in healthy nutrition, as well as adequate need; housing for all children in need;

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Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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2. Calls on EU governments to tackle 2. Calls on EU governments to tackle the structural problems causing child the structural problems causing child poverty and social exclusion. Calls on poverty and social exclusion; Calls on Member States to secure the effective Member States to guarantee the effective establishment of the European Child establishment of the European Child Guarantee across the Union, building on Guarantee across the Union building on the the achievements of existing EU policies achievements of existing EU policies and and funds; Stresses the importance of funds; Stresses the importance of competent authorities at national and local competent authorities at national, regional level to guarantee effective and free access and local level to guarantee equal access to to early childhood education and care, effective, free inclusive quality early education and school-based activities as childhood education and care, healthcare, well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, education and school-based and affordable access to healthy nutrition, as community-based activities as well as well as adequate housing for all children in sport, leisure and cultural activities, need; affordable access to healthy nutrition, as well as adequate housing for all children in need;

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Amendment 74 Miriam Lexmann

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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AM\1228042EN.docx 41/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN to early childhood education and care, effective and free access to early childhood education and school-based activities as education and care with the special focus well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, on families with children with disabilities, affordable access to healthy nutrition, as education and school-based activities as well as adequate housing for all children in well as sport, leisure and cultural activities, need; affordable access to healthy nutrition, as well as adequate housing for all children in need;

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Amendment 75 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children, in considerable investments in children, in order to eradicate child poverty and to order to eradicate child poverty and to enable them to grow and enjoy their full enable them to grow and enjoy their full rights as European citizens. Calls for an rights as European citizens. Calls on the overarching European anti-poverty Member States to step up their efforts to strategy, with ambitious targets for eradicate extreme poverty, and calls on reducing poverty and ending extreme the Commission to assist Member States poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with in these efforts. Calls on Member States to the principles laid down in the European ensure adequate policies and resources, Pillar of Social Rights and taking into including through labour market account the SDGs. Calls on Member integration measures for parents or States to ensure adequate policies and guardians and income support to families resources, including through labour market and households, so that financial barriers integration measures for parents or do not prevent children from accessing guardians and income support to each quality services; children, as well as their families and households; so that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing quality services;

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Amendment 76 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children in considerable investments in children in order to eradicate child poverty and to order to eradicate child poverty and to enable them to grow and enjoy their full enable them to grow and enjoy their full rights as European citizens. Calls for an rights as European citizens. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and ending extreme reducing poverty and ending extreme poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the principles laid down in the European Pillar principles laid down in the European Pillar of Social Rights and taking into account of Social Rights and UN SDGs and the SDGs. Calls on Member States to building on the headline targets in the ensure adequate policies and resources, EPSR Action Plan. Calls on Member including through labour market States to ensure a strategic and integration measures for parents or comprehensive approach to implementing guardians and income support to families the Child Guarantee through adequate and households, so that financial barriers policies and resources, including through do not prevent children from accessing labour market integration measures for quality services; parents or guardians and income support to families ands households, so that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing quality services;

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Amendment 77 Elena Lizzi

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AM\1228042EN.docx 43/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the Calls on Member States to ensure adequate principles laid down in the European policies and resources, including through Pillar of Social Rights and taking into labour market integration measures for account the SDGs. Calls on Member parents or guardians and income support to States to ensure adequate policies and families and households, so that financial resources, including through labour market barriers do not prevent children from integration measures for parents or accessing quality services; guardians and income support to families and households, so that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing quality services;

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Amendment 78 Sandra Pereira

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children, in considerable investments in children, as order to eradicate child poverty and to well as their families/caregivers, in order enable them to grow and enjoy their full to eradicate child poverty and to enable rights as European citizens. Calls for an them to grow and enjoy their full rights. overarching European anti-poverty Calls for an overarching European anti- strategy, with ambitious targets for poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and ending extreme reducing poverty and ending extreme poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the principles laid down in the European Pillar principles laid down in the European Pillar of Social Rights and taking into account of Social Rights and taking into account the SDGs. Calls on Member States to the SDGs. Calls on Member States to ensure adequate policies and resources, ensure adequate policies and resources, including through labour market including through labour market high- integration measures for parents or standard measures for parents or guardians guardians and income support to each and income support to each children, as children, as well as their families and well as their families and households; calls households; so that financial barriers do on the EU and the Member States to not prevent children from accessing quality support a robust and well financed State services; response, in order to ensure that all children have access to quality and free healthcare, education, childcare and decent housing and adequate nutrition, as well as to protection, so that financial barriers do not prevent children from

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Amendment 79 Katrin Langensiepen

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children in considerable investments in children in order to eradicate child poverty and to order to eradicate child poverty and to enable them to grow and enjoy their full enable them to grow and enjoy their full rights as European citizens. Calls for an rights as European citizens; stresses that overarching European anti-poverty that requires a holistic approach to early strategy, with ambitious targets for childhood development, starting with the reducing poverty and ending extreme first 1000 days that should guarantee poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the maternal health, including mental health, principles laid down in the European Pillar safety, security, responsive care giving (as of Social Rights and taking into account per nurturing care framework of WHO the SDGs. Calls on Member States to (Source: input from Eurochild). Calls for ensure adequate policies and resources, an overarching European anti-poverty including through labour market strategy, with ambitious targets for integration measures for parents or reducing poverty and ending extreme guardians and income support to families poverty in Europe by 2030, that go beyond and households, so that financial barriers the minimum requirements set out in the do not prevent children from accessing principles laid down in the European Pillar quality services; of Social Rights and taking into account the SDGs. Calls on Member States to ensure adequate policies and resources, including through labour market integration measures for single parents, parents or guardians and income support to single parents, families and households, so that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing quality services;

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Amendment 80 Cindy Franssen, Dennis Radtke

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children, in considerable investments in children in order to eradicate child poverty and to order to eradicate child poverty and to enable them to grow and enjoy their full enable them to grow and enjoy their full rights as European citizens. Calls for an rights as European citizens. Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and ending extreme reducing poverty and homelessness and poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the ending extreme poverty in Europe by 2030, principles laid down in the European Pillar in line with the principles laid down in the of Social Rights and taking into account European Pillar of Social Rights and taking the SDGs. Calls on Member States to into account the SDGs. Calls on Member ensure adequate policies and resources, States to ensure adequate policies and including through labour market resources, including through labour market integration measures for parents or integration measures for parents or guardians and income support to each guardians and income support to families children, as well as their families and and households, so that financial barriers households; so that financial barriers do do not prevent children from accessing not prevent children from accessing quality quality services; services;

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Amendment 81 Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel

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PE691.204v01-00 46/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN of Social Rights and taking into account of Social Rights and taking into account the SDGs. Calls on Member States to the SDGs. Calls on Member States to ensure adequate policies and resources, ensure adequate policies and resources, including through labour market including through labour market integration measures for parents or integration measures for parents or guardians and income support to families guardians, work-life balance and income and households, so that financial barriers support to families and households, so that do not prevent children from accessing financial barriers do not prevent children quality services; from accessing quality services;

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Amendment 82 Brando Benifei

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3. Believes that it is crucial to make 3. Believes that it is crucial to make considerable investments in children in considerable investments in children in order to eradicate child poverty and to order to eradicate child poverty and to enable them to grow and enjoy their full enable them to grow and enjoy their full rights as European citizens. Calls for an rights as European citizens; Calls for an overarching European anti-poverty overarching European anti-poverty strategy, with ambitious targets for strategy, with ambitious targets for reducing poverty and ending extreme reducing poverty and ending extreme poverty in Europe by 2030, in line with the poverty in Europe by 2030, especially principles laid down in the European Pillar among children, in line with the principles of Social Rights and taking into account laid down in the European Pillar of Social the SDGs. Calls on Member States to Rights and taking into account the SDGs; ensure adequate policies and resources, calls on Member States to ensure adequate including through labour market policies and resources, including through integration measures for parents or labour market integration measures for guardians and income support to families parents or guardians and income support to and households, so that financial barriers families and households, so that financial do not prevent children from accessing barriers do not prevent children from quality services; accessing quality and inclusive services;

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Amendment 83 Helmut Geuking

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3a. Calls for the immediate and steadfast introduction of the 25/25 European child maintenance allowance (see annex) so that the funding and value of future positions of "European family mediators" is just as sustainable as the funding of the individual participation of deprived children in social activities;

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Justification

With regard to the Child Guarantee, it is not sufficient to impose family mediators on the Member States.

Amendment 84 Sandra Pereira

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices are heard in the implementation of the Child Guarantee by implementation of the Child Guarantee by enabling them to be full participants in enabling them to be full participants in public dialogue, consultation and decision- public dialogue, consultation and decision- making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on the Rights of the Child. Recalls the the Rights of the Child; importance of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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PE691.204v01-00 48/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 85 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices are heard in the implementation of the Child Guarantee by implementation of the Child Guarantee by enabling them to be full participants in enabling them to be full participants in public dialogue, consultation and decision- public dialogue, consultation and decision- making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on the Rights of the Child. Recalls the the Rights of the Child. importance of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 86 Elena Lizzi

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices are heard in the implementation of the Child Guarantee by implementation of the Child Guarantee by enabling them to be full participants in enabling them to be full participants in public dialogue, consultation and decision- public dialogue, consultation and decision- making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on the Rights of the Child. Recalls the the Rights of the Child. importance of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 49/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 87 Miriam Lexmann

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Welcomes the fact that the views that children’s voices are heard in the and suggestions of over 10.000 children implementation of the Child Guarantee by have been taken on board in preparing enabling them to be full participants in the EU Strategy of the Rights of the public dialogue, consultation and decision- Child; calls on the Commission to ensure making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on that children’s voices are heard also in the the Rights of the Child. Recalls the implementation of the Child Guarantee by importance of introducing children’s rights enabling them to be full participants in and wellbeing as parameters of the public dialogue, consultation and decision- country-specific recommendations in the making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on framework of the European Semester and the Rights of the Child. Recalls the in line with the European Pillar of Social importance of introducing children’s rights Rights; and wellbeing as parameters of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 88 Cindy Franssen, Dennis Radtke

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices are heard in the implementation of the Child Guarantee by implementation of the Child Guarantee by enabling them to be full participants in enabling them to be full participants in public dialogue, consultation and decision- public dialogue, consultation and decision- making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on the Rights of the Child. Recalls the the Rights of the Child. Calls in this importance of introducing children’s rights respect on all Member States to and wellbeing as parameters of the specifically task a public authority, for

PE691.204v01-00 50/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN country-specific recommendations in the example a Children’s commissioner or framework of the European Semester and ombudsman, with measuring the effects in line with the European Pillar of Social of national and regional legislation on Rights; children as well as generally promoting children's rights in public policy. Recalls the importance of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 89 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices as well as their implementation of the Child Guarantee by representative organisations are heard in enabling them to be full participants in the implementation and monitoring of the public dialogue, consultation and decision- Child Guarantee by enabling them to be making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on full participants in public dialogue, the Rights of the Child. Recalls the consultation and decision-making importance of introducing children’s rights generally and specifically throughout the and wellbeing as parameters of the preparation, implementation, monitoring country-specific recommendations in the and evaluation of national action plans, framework of the European Semester and as was done in the 2020 Forum on the in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights of the Child. Recalls the importance Rights; of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters of the country- specific recommendations and the Social Scoreboard in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 51/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 90 Brando Benifei

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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure 4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that children’s voices are heard in the that children’s voices are heard in the implementation of the Child Guarantee by implementation of the Child Guarantee by enabling them to be full participants in enabling them to be full participants in public dialogue, consultation and decision- meaningful and inclusive public dialogue, making, as was done in the 2020 Forum on consultation and decision-making, the Rights of the Child. Recalls the especially with regards the importance of introducing children’s rights implementation of the Child Guarantee and wellbeing as parameters of the Council Recommendation at national, country-specific recommendations in the regional and local level in order to framework of the European Semester and empowered them to meaningfully in line with the European Pillar of Social participate in public discourse at EU level Rights; as was done in the 2020 Forum on the Rights of the Child;

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Amendment 91 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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4a. Recalls that all Member States are obliged to allocate an appropriate amount to the implementation of the Child Guarantee with a minimum 5% allocation for those Member States with a child poverty rate above the EU average and that Member States must include dedicated measures investing in children and young people in their national recovery and resilience plans in order to access the fund as per the Next Generation Pillar of the RRF;

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Amendment 92 Brando Benifei

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4b. Stresses the importance of introducing children’s rights and wellbeing as parameters and indicators of the country-specific recommendations in the framework of the European Semester and in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 93 Brando Benifei

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on Member States to prioritise prioritise funding for child rights according funding for child rights according to the to the identified needs at national and identified needs at national and regional regional level. Calls on Member States to level; calls on Member States to ensure a ensure a coordinated approach in the coordinated approach in the programming programming and implementation of EU and implementation of EU funds, calls on funds, and to speed up their the Member States to speed up their implementation and dedicate all possible implementation and to dedicate all possible resources, including EU funds such as the national resources, complemented by EU European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), funds such as the European Social Fund Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Plus (ESF+), Recovery Assistance for Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the Cohesion and the Territories of Europe Recovery and Resilience Facility, the (ReactEU), the Recovery and Resilience European Regional Development Fund Facility (RRF), the European Regional (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the Development Fund (ERDF), InvestEU, Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the Erasmus+ and the Asylum and Migration

AM\1228042EN.docx 53/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN fight against child poverty and social Fund (AMF), EU4Health, in the fight exclusion. Highlights that Member States against child poverty and social exclusion; should establish both multi-annual national strategies for tackling child poverty and social exclusion, and Child Guarantee national action plans;

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Amendment 94 Katrin Langensiepen

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to prioritise funding for child rights according prioritise EU funding for child rights to the identified needs at national and according to the identified needs at regional level. Calls on Member States to national and regional level and beyond the ensure a coordinated approach in the predefined earmarks in EU funding programming and implementation of EU schemes;. Calls on the Member States to funds, and to speed up their inform, train and support in securing EU implementation and dedicate all possible funding. Calls on Member States to ensure resources, including EU funds such as the a coordinated approach in the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), programming and implementation of EU Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the funds, and to speed up their Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the implementation and dedicate all possible Recovery and Resilience Facility, the resources, including EU funds such as the European Regional Development Fund European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the fight against child poverty and social Recovery and Resilience Facility, the exclusion. Highlights that Member States European Regional Development Fund should establish both multi-annual national (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the strategies for tackling child poverty and Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the social exclusion, and Child Guarantee fight against child poverty and social national action plans; exclusion. Encourages that Member States establish both multi-annual national strategies for tackling child poverty and social exclusion, and Child Guarantee national action plans;

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PE691.204v01-00 54/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 95 Eugen Tomac

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to prioritise funding for child rights according prioritise funding for child rights according to the identified needs at national and to the identified needs at national and regional level. Calls on Member States to regional level. Calls on Member States to ensure a coordinated approach in the ensure a coordinated approach in the programming and implementation of EU programming and implementation of EU funds, and to speed up their funds complementing national funds, and implementation and dedicate all possible to speed up their implementation and resources, including EU funds such as the dedicate all possible resources, including European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), EU funds such as the European Social Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Fund Plus (ESF+), Recovery Assistance Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe Recovery and Resilience Facility, the (ReactEU), the Recovery and Resilience European Regional Development Fund Facility, the European Regional (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the Development Fund (ERDF), InvestEU, Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the Erasmus+ and the Asylum and Migration fight against child poverty and social Fund (AMF), in the fight against child exclusion. Highlights that Member States poverty and social exclusion. Highlights should establish both multi-annual national that Member States should establish both strategies for tackling child poverty and multi-annual national strategies for social exclusion, and Child Guarantee tackling child poverty and social exclusion, national action plans; and Child Guarantee national action plans;

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Amendment 96 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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AM\1228042EN.docx 55/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN programming and implementation of EU programming and implementation of EU funds, and to speed up their funds, and to speed up their implementation and dedicate all possible implementation and dedicate all possible resources, including EU funds such as the resources, including both national and EU European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), funds such as the European Social Fund Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Plus (ESF+), Recovery Assistance for Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the Cohesion and the Territories of Europe Recovery and Resilience Facility, the (ReactEU), the Recovery and Resilience European Regional Development Fund Facility, the European Regional (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the Development Fund (ERDF), InvestEU, Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the Erasmus+ and the Asylum and Migration fight against child poverty and social Fund (AMF), in the fight against child exclusion. Highlights that Member States poverty and social exclusion. Highlights should establish both multi-annual national that Member States should establish both strategies for tackling child poverty and multi-annual national strategies for social exclusion, and Child Guarantee tackling child poverty and social exclusion, national action plans; and Child Guarantee national action plans;

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Amendment 97 Elena Lizzi

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to prioritise funding for child rights according prioritise funding for child rights according to the identified needs at national and to the identified needs and according to regional level. Calls on Member States to the impact of Covid-19 at national and ensure a coordinated approach in the regional level. Calls on Member States to programming and implementation of EU ensure a coordinated approach in the funds, and to speed up their programming and implementation of EU implementation and dedicate all possible funds, and to speed up their resources, including EU funds such as the implementation and dedicate all possible European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), resources, including EU funds such as the Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the European Regional Development Fund Recovery and Resilience Facility, the (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the European Regional Development Fund Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the fight against child poverty and social Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the exclusion. Highlights that Member States fight against child poverty and social should establish both multi-annual national exclusion. Highlights that Member States

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Amendment 98 Miriam Lexmann

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to prioritise funding for child rights according prioritise funding for child rights according to the identified needs at national and to the identified needs at national and regional level. Calls on Member States to regional level. Calls on Member States to ensure a coordinated approach in the ensure a coordinated approach in the programming and implementation of EU programming and implementation of EU funds, and to speed up their funds, and to speed up their implementation and dedicate all possible implementation and dedicate all possible resources, including EU funds such as the resources, including EU funds such as the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the Territories of Europe (ReactEU), the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Regional Development Fund European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the (ERDF), InvestEU, Erasmus+ and the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF), in the fight against child poverty and social fight against child poverty and social exclusion. Highlights that Member States exclusion. Highlights that Member States should establish both multi-annual national should establish both multi-annual national strategies for tackling child poverty and strategies for tackling child poverty and social exclusion, and Child Guarantee social exclusion, and Child Guarantee national action plans; national action plans with a special focus on adequate support for families with children; recalls the possibilities given by Next Generation Europe to provide financial support also to NGOs and charitable organisations providing social help to families in need;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 57/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 99 Sandra Pereira

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5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure substantial resources to the eradication of poverty, including child poverty, and the absolute primacy of this objective over budgetary and public finance considerations;

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Amendment 100 Brando Benifei

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6. Calls on the Member States to take 6. Calls on the Member States to take into account the specific situation of into account specific situation of children vulnerable children in need when in vulnerable situation and children in implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on need when implementing the Child the Member States to specifically focus on guarantee; Calls on the Member States to the limited access to key services for specifically focus on the limited access to children belonging to ethnic minorities, key services for children belonging to migrant children, children in precarious ethnic minorities, migrant children or situations, or children in institutional care; children in precarious situation, homeless children and children in institutional care; stresses that the Child Guarantee should contribute to the achievement of the UNCRPD goal of transition from institutional to family or community- based care;

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Amendment 101 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna

PE691.204v01-00 58/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Donath

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6. Calls on the Member States to take 6. Calls on the Member States to take into account the specific situation of into account the specific situation of vulnerable children in need when vulnerable children in need when implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on the Member States to specifically focus on the Member States to specifically focus on the limited access to key services for the limited access to key services for children belonging to ethnic minorities, children with disabilities, children migrant children, children in precarious belonging to ethnic and racial minorities situations, or children in institutional care; in particular Roma children, migrant children or children of migrants, children in precarious situations or children in institutional care; calls on the Member States to mainstream a gender sensitive and intersectional approach throughout their implementation of the Child Guarantee;

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Amendment 102 Katrin Langensiepen

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6. Calls on the Member States to take 6. Calls on the Member States to take into account the specific situation of into account the specific situation of vulnerable children in need when vulnerable children in need when implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on the Member States to specifically focus on the Member States to specifically focus on the limited access to key services for the limited access to key services for children belonging to ethnic minorities, children belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant children, children in precarious migrant children, children from single situations, or children in institutional care; parent families, LGBTIQ families, children with disabilities, children in precarious situations, or children in institutional care; Calls on the Commission to improve access to essential

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Amendment 103 Elżbieta Rafalska, Beata Szydło

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6. Calls on the Member States to take 6. Calls on the Member States to take into account the specific situation of into account the specific situation of vulnerable children in need when vulnerable children in need when implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on the Member States to specifically focus on the Member States to specifically focus on the limited access to key services for the limited access to key services for children belonging to ethnic minorities, children belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant children, children in precarious migrant children, children in precarious situations, or children in institutional care; situations, children with disabilities, children in large families or children in institutional care;

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Amendment 104 Miriam Lexmann

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Amendment 105 Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel

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6. Calls on the Member States to take 6. Calls on the Member States to take into account the specific situation of into account the specific situation of vulnerable children in need when vulnerable children in need when implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on implementing the Child guarantee. Calls on the Member States to specifically focus on the Member States to specifically focus on the limited access to key services for the limited access to key services for children belonging to ethnic minorities, children belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant children, children in precarious migrant children, children in precarious situations, or children in institutional care; situations, children with disabilities or children in institutional care;

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Amendment 106 Brando Benifei

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6a. Calls in this regard on all Member States, not only those that are most affected by child poverty, to allocate at least 5 % of the ESF+ resources under shared management to support activities under the European Child Guarantee;

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6b. Believes that the Child Guarantee should become a permanent instrument to prevent and tackle child poverty in a structural manner in the EU; highlights the self-evident interconnection between NextGenerationEU and the Child Guarantee as EU instruments for investing in the future generations and calls therefore for a strengthening of the synergies between the two Union programmes, also with a view to implement fully and meaningfully the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Strategy on the Rights of the Child;

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Amendment 108 Brando Benifei

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6c. Highlights that Member States should establish both multi-annual national strategies on poverty reduction as also defined in the enabling condition 4.3 of the Common Provisions Regulation for tackling child poverty and social exclusion and ensure that the Child Guarantee national action plans are their concrete deliverables;

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PE691.204v01-00 62/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 109 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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7. Calls on the Member States to 7. Calls on the Member States to eliminate all discrimination and eliminate all discrimination and segregation in access to free childcare and segregation in access to free childcare and education, free healthcare as well as education, free healthcare as well as adequate housing and nutrition, in order to adequate housing and nutrition, in order to guarantee full respect for applicable EU guarantee full respect for applicable EU and national anti-discrimination law; and national anti-discrimination law; Calls for the urgent unblocking of the horizontal anti-discrimination directive as a key tool in this regard;

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Amendment 110 Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, Dragoș Pîslaru, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, Stéphane Bijoux, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

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7. Calls on the Member States to 7. Calls on the Member States to eliminate all discrimination and eliminate all discrimination and segregation in access to free childcare and segregation in access to free childcare and education, free healthcare as well as education, free healthcare as well as adequate housing and nutrition, in order to adequate housing and healthy nutrition, in guarantee full respect for applicable EU order to guarantee full respect for and national anti-discrimination law; applicable EU and national anti- discrimination law;

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Amendment 111 Sandra Pereira

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7. Calls on the Member States to 7. Calls on the Member States to eliminate all discrimination and eliminate all discrimination and segregation in access to free childcare and segregation in access to free and quality education, free healthcare as well as childcare and education, free and quality adequate housing and nutrition, in order to healthcare as well as adequate housing and guarantee full respect for applicable EU nutrition, and to recreational activities, in and national anti-discrimination law; order to guarantee full respect for applicable EU and national anti- discrimination law;

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Amendment 112 Katrin Langensiepen

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7. Calls on the Member States to 7. Calls on the Member States to eliminate all discrimination and eliminate all discrimination and segregation in access to free childcare and segregation in access to free childcare and education, free healthcare as well as education, free healthcare as well as adequate housing and nutrition, in order to adequate housing and nutrition, in order to guarantee full respect for applicable EU guarantee full respect for applicable EU and national anti-discrimination law; and national anti-discrimination law; encourages Member Stats to invest adequate resources to end school or class segregation in order to provide children with an equal start in life to break the poverty cycle as early as possible;

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Amendment 113 Brando Benifei

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7a. Calls on Member States to prioritise the provision of permanent housing to homeless children and their families, and to include housing solutions for children experiencing homelessness and severe housing exclusions in their national child guarantee action plans;

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Amendment 114 Eugen Tomac

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7b. Expresses its concern that for too many children basic water, sanitation and hygiene facilities remain out of reach and that the lack of access to basic sanitation services is particularly acute among the most vulnerable and marginalised children; Calls on the Member States to ensure that every child has access to running water, sanitation and personal hygiene facilities, both at home and at school;

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Amendment 115 Brando Benifei

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7c. Points to the city-specific challenges of child poverty, in particular

AM\1228042EN.docx 65/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN with a view to address the serious situation within most deprived urban areas, which risks to be overlooked in the absence of multifaceted and quality indicators able to grasp the reality on the ground; stresses the need to dedicate specific measures and resources to this scope, with a view to put in place quality, accessible and inclusive services for the children in need and their families living in urban areas; stresses the need to involve local and regional authorities and municipalities, as well as civil society actors, in all phases of the implementation of the Child Guarantee;

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Amendment 116 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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8. Calls on the Member States to work 8. Calls on the Member States to work towards achieving the targets set within the towards achieving the targets set within the European Education Area and to continue European Education Area and to continue to fully implement all relevant actions to fully implement all relevant actions recommended in the Action Plan on recommended in the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the area of education and training. Calls on the area of education and training. Calls for a Member States to nominate competent public-private partnership at the pan- national coordinators who will duly report European level to invest in reducing the on the progress made every two years; digital divide and to empower children through digital and entrepreneurial skills;

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Amendment 117 Katrin Langensiepen

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8. Calls on the Member States to work 8. Calls on the Member States to work towards achieving the targets set within the towards achieving the targets set within the European Education Area and to continue European Education Area and to continue to fully implement all relevant actions to fully implement all relevant actions recommended in the Action Plan on recommended in the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the area of education and training. Calls on the area of education and training. Calls on the Member States to nominate competent Member States to nominate competent national coordinators who will duly report national coordinators with a strong on the progress made every two years; mandate who will duly report on the progress made every two years;

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Amendment 118 Brando Benifei

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8. Calls on the Member States to work 8. Calls on the Member States to work towards achieving the targets set within the towards achieving the targets set within the European Education Area and to continue European Education Area and to continue to fully implement all relevant actions to fully implement all relevant actions recommended in the Action Plan on recommended in the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the Integration and Inclusion 2021-2024 in the area of education and training. Calls on the area of education and training; Calls on the Member States to nominate competent Member States to nominate competent national coordinators who will duly report national coordinators with cross- on the progress made every two years; departmental competence who will duly report on the progress made every two years on all aspects of the Child Guarantee;

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Amendment 119 Sandra Pereira

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8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the creation and the reinforcement of universal public childcare, education and healthcare networks, with high-quality standards;

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Amendment 120 Sandra Pereira

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Amendment 121 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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9. Calls on the Commission to 9. Calls on the Commission to support propose the revision of the Barcelona Member States’ efforts to reach the targets to support further upward Barcelona targets in order to support convergence among Member States in the further upward convergence among field of early childhood education and care. Member States in the field of early

PE691.204v01-00 68/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Stresses the need for EU initiatives to childhood education and care. Stresses the support online and distance learning for need for EU initiatives to support online more flexible and inclusive primary and and distance learning for more flexible and secondary education; inclusive primary and secondary education;

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Amendment 122 Miriam Lexmann

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9. Calls on the Commission to 9. Calls on the Commission to propose the revision of the Barcelona propose the revision of the Barcelona targets to support further upward targets to support the Member States in the convergence among Member States in the field of early childhood education and care. field of early childhood education and care. Stresses the need for EU initiatives to Stresses the need for EU initiatives to support online and distance learning for support online and distance learning for more flexible and inclusive primary and more flexible and inclusive primary and secondary education; recognizes however secondary education; that online and distance learning cannot fully replace the face-to-face learning and face-to-face learning has to remain the key source as it provides also valuable social skills;

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Amendment 123 Brando Benifei

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9. Calls on the Commission to 9. Calls on the Commission, in propose the revision of the Barcelona accordance with its Action Plan on the targets to support further upward Implementation of the European Pillar of convergence among Member States in the Social Rights, to put forward a proposal field of early childhood education and care. for a revision of the Barcelona targets and Stresses the need for EU initiatives to the European quality framework for

AM\1228042EN.docx 69/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN support online and distance learning for ECEC to support further upward more flexible and inclusive primary and convergence among Member States in the secondary education; field of early childhood education and care; Stresses the need for EU initiatives to support online and distance learning for more flexible and inclusive primary and secondary education;

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Amendment 124 Katrin Langensiepen

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9. Calls on the Commission to 9. Calls on the Commission to propose the revision of the Barcelona propose the revision of the Barcelona targets to support further upward targets to support further upward convergence among Member States in the convergence among Member States in the field of early childhood education and care. field of early childhood education and care. Stresses the need for EU initiatives to Stresses the need for EU initiatives to support online and distance learning for support online and distance learning for more flexible and inclusive primary and more flexible and inclusive primary and secondary education; secondary education; while preserving traditional school methods with ensured accessibility for all children, specifically children with disabilities;

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Amendment 125 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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PE691.204v01-00 70/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN convergence among Member States in the convergence among Member States in the field of early childhood education and care. field of early childhood education and care. Stresses the need for EU initiatives to Stresses the need for EU initiatives to support online and distance learning for support online and distance learning for more flexible and inclusive primary and more flexible and inclusive primary and secondary education; secondary education; stresses the importance of equal access to digital infrastructure and skills for children, teachers and parents alike in both urban and rural settings to avoid a digital divide, as well for children in remote and outlying regions;

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Amendment 126 Eugen Tomac

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9. Calls on the Commission to 9. Calls on the Commission to propose the revision of the Barcelona propose the revision of the Barcelona targets to support further upward targets to support further upward convergence among Member States in the convergence among Member States in the field of early childhood education and care. field of early childhood education and care. Stresses the need for EU initiatives to Stresses the need for EU initiatives to support online and distance learning for support online and distance learning for more flexible and inclusive primary and more flexible and inclusive primary and secondary education; secondary education; calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify the areas most in need of financial support in the process of technological upgrading and to set up a program aimed at acquiring the materials needed for distance learning, as well as providing comprehensive training both for teachers as well as for students, in order to digitally literate them where needed as well as to adapt them to new learning technologies;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 71/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 127 Katrin Langensiepen

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10. Calls on Member States to urgently 10. Calls on Member States to urgently address learning disruptions and address learning disruptions and educational inequalities caused by the educational inequalities caused by the COVID -19 crisis; is concerned that in the COVID -19 crisis; both for the immediate context of the post-crisis recovery, the need future to allow children to follow distance to tackle child poverty will increase and learning, and to find long-term solutions that poverty will have an ever greater for structural inequalities; is concerned impact on children as the most vulnerable that in the context of the post-crisis group among the most disadvantaged; recovery, the need to tackle child poverty will increase and that poverty will have an ever greater impact on children as the most vulnerable group among the most disadvantaged;

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Amendment 128 Eugen Tomac

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 10

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10. Calls on Member States to urgently 10. Calls on Member States to urgently address learning disruptions and address learning disruptions and educational inequalities caused by the educational inequalities caused by the COVID -19 crisis; is concerned that in the COVID -19 crisis; calls on the Member context of the post-crisis recovery, the need States to bridge the digital divide while to tackle child poverty will increase and scaling-up and prioritising internet that poverty will have an ever greater connectivity in remote and rural areas as impact on children as the most vulnerable 10% of households in the EU are still group among the most disadvantaged; lacking internet access; calls on the Member States to assess, implement and monitor the access to education particularly for children coming from vulnerable groups and backgrounds to ensure the same quality education during the pandemic confinement, as well as to

PE691.204v01-00 72/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN promote digital literacy and adapted educational tools for distance learning; is concerned that in the context of the post- crisis recovery, the need to tackle child poverty will increase and that poverty will have an ever greater impact on children as the most vulnerable group among the most disadvantaged;

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Amendment 129 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 10

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10. Calls on Member States to urgently 10. Calls on Member States to urgently address learning disruptions and address learning disruptions and educational inequalities caused by the educational inequalities caused by the COVID -19 crisis; is concerned that in the COVID -19 crisis, also by using the context of the post-crisis recovery, the need lessons learned during the pandemic; is to tackle child poverty will increase and concerned that in the context of the post- that poverty will have an ever greater crisis recovery and the potential impact on children as the most vulnerable prolongation of the crisis, the need to group among the most disadvantaged; tackle child poverty will increase and that poverty will have an ever greater impact on children as the most vulnerable group among the most disadvantaged; calls on Member States to prepare and prioritize for the categories of children identified by the Guarantee immunisation solutions against COVID-19, when they will become widely available for children;

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Amendment 130 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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10a. Recalls the key role that social economy enterprises and entrepreneurial activity with a social impact can play in helping to deliver the Child Guarantee and the need for investment in capacity building, access to finance and entrepreneurial education and training in this area; stresses the need for synergies between the Child Guarantee and the anticipated EU Action Plan for the Social Economy;

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Amendment 131 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new)

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10b. Believes that strategic investment with a social impact is crucial to ensure that the effect of the crisis on children, particularly those already experiencing or at risk of poverty and social inclusion and falling within the areas of specific disadvantage under the Recommendation, do not become entrenched. Stresses the importance of leveraging both public and private investment to achieve the aims of the Guarantee and highlights the role of the InvestEU programme and fund in this regard, in particular through the social investment and skills and sustainable infrastructure policy windows;

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PE691.204v01-00 74/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 132 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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10c. Calls on the Commission and Member State to examine their current budgetary procedures related to social expenditure in order to highlight the distinct features investments in children can have over regular social expenditure when it comes to return, multiplier, opportunity costs;

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Amendment 133 Eugen Tomac

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10d. Calls on the Member States to strengthen efforts to prevent and protect children from harm and from all forms of violence by developing strategies to prioritise and identify children at risk for prevention and response interventions in collaboration with parents, teachers, health and community workers; Calls on the Member States to prevent gender- based violence and to safeguard every child, giving special attention to girls and young women, by creating or strengthening monitoring and reporting mechanisms and specific services to respond to cases of gender based violence;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 75/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 134 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to families is essential, and calls on the competent national authorities to put the competent national authorities to in place integrated child protection ensure adequate and accessible social systems, including effective prevention, protection systems and integrated child early intervention and family support, in protection systems, including effective order to ensure safety and security for prevention, early intervention and family children without or at risk of losing support, in order to ensure safety and parental care; security for children without or at risk of losing parental care;

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Amendment 135 Katrin Langensiepen

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to single parents households and the competent national authorities to put in families is essential, and calls on the place integrated child protection systems, competent national authorities to put in including effective prevention, early place integrated child protection systems, intervention and family support, in order to including effective prevention, early ensure safety and security for children intervention and single parents support without or at risk of losing parental care; and family support, in order to ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care;

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Amendment 136 Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to families is essential, and calls on the competent national authorities to put in the competent national authorities to put in place integrated child protection systems, place integrated child protection systems, including effective prevention, early including effective prevention, early intervention and family support, in order to intervention and family support, in order to ensure safety and security for children ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care; without or at risk of losing parental care; Stresses that mental health problems are widespread due to the current context of lockdown, isolation, educational environment or the prolonged use of digital tools, and calls on the Member States to invest in mental health as a priority;

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Amendment 137 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 11

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to families is essential, and calls on the competent national authorities to put in the competent national authorities to put in place integrated child protection systems, place integrated child protection systems, including effective prevention, early including effective prevention, early intervention and family support, in order to intervention and family support, in order to ensure safety and security for children ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care; without or at risk of losing parental care; recalls that social policies remain Member States competence, and that Child Guarantee must be introduced with a full respect for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 77/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 138 Eugen Tomac

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 11

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to families is essential, and calls on the competent national authorities to put in the competent national authorities to put in place integrated child protection systems, place integrated child protection systems, including effective prevention, early including effective prevention, early intervention and family support, in order to intervention and family support, in order to ensure safety and security for children ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care; without or at risk of losing parental care; calls on the Member States to scale up investment in child protection systems and social welfare services as an important part of implementing the Child Guarantee and tackling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic;

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Amendment 139 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 11

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11. Recalls that social protection and 11. Recalls that social protection and support to families is essential, and calls on support to families is essential and calls on the competent national authorities to put in the competent national authorities to put in place integrated child protection systems, place integrated child protection systems, including effective prevention, early including effective prevention, early intervention and family support, in order to intervention and family support in order to ensure safety and security for children ensure safety and security for children without or at risk of losing parental care; without or at risk of losing parental care as well as measures to support the transition from institutional to quality family and

PE691.204v01-00 78/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN community based care;

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Amendment 140 Helmut Geuking

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new)

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11a. Recalls that adequate social protection for families across Europe is guaranteed in the long term by the 25/25 European child maintenance allowance (see annex); recalls that strengthening the purchasing power of hard up families and financing European family mediators in European Member States are essential components of the preventive child protection system; calls therefore for the introduction of the 25/25 European child maintenance allowance with immediate effect;

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Amendment 141 Sandra Pereira

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11b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to provide social services, including the ones on the protection of minors, sufficient financial, technical and human resources;

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AM\1228042EN.docx 79/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 142 Eugen Tomac

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11c. Calls on the Member States to work out specific strategies to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, as within isolation, children spend more time online which increases the risk of children to online abuse, including child pornography and online bullying; Urges Member States to conduct information campaigns for both parents and children regarding the dangers to which children are exposed in the online environment; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work closely with private sector operators to fund the development of new technologies to detect and eliminate materials containing child pornography and child sexual abuse;

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Amendment 143 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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12. Recalls that targeted support to 12. Recalls that targeted supports to parents is the most effective way to lift and labour market participation of parents children out of poverty. Calls on the and guardians is the most effective way to Member States to boost investment in lift children out of poverty. Calls on the sustainable jobs and to develop targeted Member States to boost investment in employment policies that ensure fair order to support sustainable job creation, working conditions and decent living tackle in-work poverty and develop standards; targeted active labour market policies for those furthest from the labour market that provide enhanced support for

PE691.204v01-00 80/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN reintegration, improve employability with a focus on VET and up- and re-skilling and ensure fair working conditions and decent living standards;

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Amendment 144 Sandra Pereira

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Amendment 145 Miriam Lexmann

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 12

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12. Recalls that targeted support to 12. Recalls that targeted support to parents is the most effective way to lift parents based on an early identification is children out of poverty. Calls on the the most effective way to lift children out Member States to boost investment in of poverty. Calls on the Member States to sustainable jobs and to develop targeted boost investment in sustainable social employment policies that ensure fair support to parents including adequate working conditions, and decent living support during the maternity and parental standards; leave, tax incentives for families and recognition of the periods of providing care to children in pension schemes and

AM\1228042EN.docx 81/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN in sustainable jobs and targeted employment policies that ensure inclusive labour market, work-life balance, fair working conditions and decent living standards;

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Amendment 146 Katrin Langensiepen

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12. Recalls that targeted support to 12. Recalls that targeted support to parents is the most effective way to lift parents is the most effective way to lift children out of poverty. Calls on the children out of poverty. Stresses that Member States to boost investment in improving employment opportunities, sustainable jobs and to develop targeted especially for women who are most likely employment policies that ensure fair going to bare the care burden, ensuring working conditions and decent living equal pay and facilitating a good work- standards; life balance, including for men, by enforcing the right to 10 days of paternity leave, four months of parental leave, five working days of carers’ leave as provided in the Directive on Work Life balance for Parents and Carers, is essential to preserve parents’ well-being and stability; Calls on the Member States to boost investment in sustainable jobs and to develop targeted employment policies that ensure fair working conditions and decent living standards; highlights that free child care support must be put in place for a smooth resumption of work for parents; calls on all Member States to ensure sufficient support, both financial and professional, for people taking care of their family members with disabilities who live in the same home; stresses that the fact that they have to take care of their relatives often has a negative impact on their family and professional life and can lead to exclusion and discrimination;

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Amendment 147 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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Amendment 148 Eugen Tomac

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AM\1228042EN.docx 83/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN Amendment 149 Brando Benifei

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12. Recalls that targeted support to 12. Recalls that a comprehensive parents is the most effective way to lift approach is essential for lifting children children out of poverty. Calls on the out of the poverty, which must include Member States to boost investment in well-designed and individualised support sustainable jobs and to develop targeted for their parents; Calls on the Member employment policies that ensure fair States to boost investment to sustainable working conditions and decent living jobs and to provide targeted employment standards; policies to secure new jobs providing the decent standard of living and fair working conditions; Calls on Member States to include such measures in their national Child Guarantee Action Plans;

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Amendment 150 Helmut Geuking

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new)

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12a. Recalls that targeted employment policies must go hand in hand with strengthening the purchasing power of families; emphasises that investments in sustainable jobs are only created when there is economic growth in the individual European Member States; underlines that families urgently need funds to alleviate great hardship; highlights that this money will be spent again and added directly to the economic cycle; explains that the subsequent increase in consumption will secure jobs, increase production, increase tax revenue at a local level and therefore

PE691.204v01-00 84/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN calls for the 25/25 European child maintenance allowance (see annex) to be introduced at the earliest possible moment at a European level;

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Amendment 151 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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13. Recalls that the proposal on 13. Recalls that the proposal on adequate minimum wages focuses on adequate minimum wages aims at improving the income situation of people, improving the income situation of working including that of parents; reminds Member people, including that of parents, States that the recommendation for particularly women and must be Effective Active Support to Employment complementary to anti-poverty measures, (EASE) offers guidance to gradually including the Guarantee, while ensuring transition from emergency measures taken national particularities and respecting to preserve jobs during the pandemic and subsidiarity; reminds Member States that new measures needed for a job-rich the recommendation for Effective Active recovery; Support to Employment (EASE) offers guidance to gradually transition from emergency measures taken to preserve jobs during the pandemic and new measures needed for a job-rich and growth oriented recovery;

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Amendment 152 Katrin Langensiepen

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13. Recalls that the proposal on 13. Highlights that children depend on adequate minimum wages focuses on their parents or tutor’s income and access

AM\1228042EN.docx 85/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN improving the income situation of people, to public services; recalls that the proposal including that of parents; reminds Member on adequate minimum wages focuses on States that the recommendation for improving the income situation of people, Effective Active Support to Employment including that of parents; which would (EASE) offers guidance to gradually thus improve children’s well-being and transition from emergency measures taken reduce inequalities from an early age, to preserve jobs during the pandemic and breaking the poverty cycle. Welcomes the new measures needed for a job-rich proposal for the Pay Transparency recovery; Directive, aiming at reducing the gender pay gap and therefore improving women’s financial stability, which could allow them to escape situations of domestic violence; reminds Member States that the recommendation for Effective Active Support to Employment (EASE) offers guidance to gradually transition from emergency measures taken to preserve jobs during the pandemic and new measures needed for a job-rich recovery;

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Amendment 153 Miriam Lexmann

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13. Recalls that the proposal on 13. Reminds Member States that the adequate minimum wages focuses on recommendation for Effective Active improving the income situation of people, Support to Employment (EASE) offers including that of parents; reminds guidance to gradually transition from Member States that the recommendation emergency measures taken to preserve jobs for Effective Active Support to during the pandemic and new measures Employment (EASE) offers guidance to needed for a job-rich recovery; gradually transition from emergency measures taken to preserve jobs during the pandemic and new measures needed for a job-rich recovery;

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PE691.204v01-00 86/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 154 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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Amendment 155 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva, Anna Donath

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14. Emphasises that the reinforced 14. Emphasises that the reinforced Youth Guarantee stipulates that all young Youth Guarantee stipulates that all young people from the age of 15 should receive people from the age of 15 should receive an offer for employment, education, an offer for employment, education, traineeship or apprenticeship within a traineeship or apprenticeship within a period of four months of becoming period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education; unemployed or leaving formal education; further on, calls on the Member States to calls on the Member States to implement implement the reinforced Youth Guarantee the reinforced Youth Guarantee and and promote the involvement of young promote the involvement of young people people in Youth Guarantee services. in Youth Guarantee services. Underlines Underlines the importance of ensuring its the importance of ensuring its complementarity with the European complementarity with the Child Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Guarantee and the European Strategy for Disabilities to respond to the needs of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to children with disabilities and provide a respond to the needs of children with

AM\1228042EN.docx 87/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN better access to mainstream services and disabilities and provide a better access to independent living; mainstream services and independent living;

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Amendment 156 Katrin Langensiepen

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14. Emphasises that the reinforced 14. Encourages Members States to Youth Guarantee stipulates that all young tackle early school drop-outs. emphasises people from the age of 15 should receive that the reinforced Youth Guarantee an offer for employment, education, stipulates that all young people from the traineeship or apprenticeship within a age of 15 should receive an offer for period of four months of becoming employment, education, traineeship or unemployed or leaving formal education; apprenticeship within a period of four further on, calls on the Member States to months of becoming unemployed or implement the reinforced Youth Guarantee leaving formal education; further on, calls and promote the involvement of young on the Member States to implement the people in Youth Guarantee services. reinforced Youth Guarantee and promote Underlines the importance of ensuring its the involvement of young people in Youth complementarity with the European Guarantee services. Underlines the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with importance of ensuring its Disabilities to respond to the needs of complementarity with the European children with disabilities and provide a Strategy for the Rights of Persons with better access to mainstream services and Disabilities to respond to the needs of independent living; children with disabilities and provide a better access to mainstream services and independent living;

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Amendment 157 Brando Benifei

Draft motion for a resolution Paragraph 14

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14. Emphasises that the reinforced 14. Emphasises that the reinforced Youth Guarantee stipulates that all young Youth Guarantee stipulates that all young people from the age of 15 should receive people from the age of 15 should receive an offer for employment, education, an offer for employment, education, traineeship or apprenticeship within a traineeship or apprenticeship within a period of four months of becoming period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education; unemployed or leaving formal education. further on, calls on the Member States to Further on, calls on the Member States to implement the reinforced Youth Guarantee implement the reinforced Youth Guarantee, and promote the involvement of young ensure quality of offers including fair people in Youth Guarantee services. remuneration and promote the Underlines the importance of ensuring its involvement of young people in Youth complementarity with the European Guarantee services. Underlines the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with importance of ensuring its Disabilities to respond to the needs of complementarity with the European children with disabilities and provide a Strategy for the rights of persons with better access to mainstream services and disabilities to respond to the needs of independent living; children with disabilities and provide better access to mainstream services and independent living.

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Amendment 158 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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AM\1228042EN.docx 89/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN the European Commission to involve the specific recommendations when needed. European Parliament in the common Calls on the Commission to involve the monitoring framework and in the works of Parliament in the common monitoring the Social Protection Committee; framework and in the works of the Social highlights the important role of the Protection Committee; highlights the Committee of the Regions and the important role of the Committee of the European Economic and Social Committee Regions and the European Economic and to promote dialogue with local and Social Committee to promote dialogue regional authorities and civil society; with local and regional authorities and civil society;

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Amendment 159 Sandra Pereira

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15. Calls on the Commission to further 15. Calls on the Commission to further develop benchmarking for evaluating and develop benchmarking for evaluating and monitoring the impact of the European monitoring the impact of the European Child Guarantee, and to design the Child Guarantee, and to design the institutional structure for mainstreaming its institutional structure for mainstreaming its implementation. Welcomes the implementation. Welcomes the establishment of implementation, establishment of implementation, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Calls on the Commission to continue Calls on the Commission to involve the monitoring progress in the European Parliament in the common monitoring Semester, and to issue country-specific framework and in the works of the Social recommendations when needed. Calls on Protection Committee; highlights the the European Commission to involve the important role of the Committee of the European Parliament in the common Regions and the European Economic and monitoring framework and in the works of Social Committee to promote dialogue the Social Protection Committee; with local and regional authorities and civil highlights the important role of the society; Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee to promote dialogue with local and regional authorities and civil society;

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PE691.204v01-00 90/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN Amendment 160 Katrin Langensiepen

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15. Calls on the Commission to further 15. Calls on the Commission to adjust develop benchmarking for evaluating and the Social Scoreboard indicators monitoring the impact of the European including groups of age, children with Child Guarantee, and to design the Romani background and children with institutional structure for mainstreaming its disabilities and to further develop implementation. Welcomes the benchmarking for evaluating and establishment of implementation, monitoring the impact of the European monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Child Guarantee, and to design the Calls on the Commission to continue institutional structure for mainstreaming its monitoring progress in the European implementation. Welcomes the Semester, and to issue country-specific establishment of implementation, recommendations when needed. Calls on monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. the European Commission to involve the Calls on the Commission to continue European Parliament in the common monitoring progress in the European monitoring framework and in the works of Semester, and to issue country-specific the Social Protection Committee; recommendations. Calls on the highlights the important role of the Commission to involve the Parliament in Committee of the Regions and the the common monitoring framework and in European Economic and Social Committee the works of the Social Protection to promote dialogue with local and Committee; highlights the important role of regional authorities and civil society; the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee to promote dialogue with local and regional authorities and civil society;

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Amendment 161 Beata Szydło, Elżbieta Rafalska

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AM\1228042EN.docx 91/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN institutional structure for mainstreaming its institutional structure for mainstreaming its implementation. Welcomes the implementation. Welcomes the establishment of implementation, establishment of implementation, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Calls on the Commission to continue Calls on the Commission to involve the monitoring progress in the European Parliament in the common monitoring Semester, and to issue country-specific framework and in the works of the Social recommendations when needed. Calls on Protection Committee; highlights the the European Commission to involve the important role of the Committee of the European Parliament in the common Regions and the European Economic and monitoring framework and in the works of Social Committee to promote dialogue the Social Protection Committee; with local and regional authorities and civil highlights the important role of the society; Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee to promote dialogue with local and regional authorities and civil society;

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Amendment 162 Elena Lizzi

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PE691.204v01-00 92/98 AM\1228042EN.docx EN to promote dialogue with local and regional authorities and civil society;

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Amendment 163 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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15a. Recalls the European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) as a valuable resource to monitor activities triggered by the Recommendation for Investing in Children1, as well as to exchange innovative and evidenced-based best practices and foster cooperation in the field of child and family policies. Believes that the adoption of the European Child Guarantee will require even greater EU level cooperation and exchange to ensure its effective implementation and therefore calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of establishing a European Authority for Children to support and monitor Member States’ implementation of the Recommendation, coordinate national work, ensure the exchange of good practices and innovative solutions and streamline reporting and recommendations; ______1 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32013 H0112

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16. Calls on the Member States to 16. Calls on the Member States to develop multi-annual action plans and develop both multi-annual national national plans on the basis of the identified strategies to tackle child poverty and specific groups of children in need, social exclusion and European Child objectives and the required funding. Guarantee national action plans on the Recalls the importance of involving all basis of the identified specific groups of responsible regional and local authorities children in need, outlining the specific and relevant stakeholders, including those objectives, qualitative and quantitative in the social economy. Reminds Member targets and concrete measures and the States and the Commission to inform required funding to be allocated to make Parliament on the state of the the enabling policy framework a reality. implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates Recalls the importance of involving all the need to improve the collection of responsible regional and local authorities disaggregated data in order to help monitor and relevant stakeholders, including those and assess progress towards ending child in the social economy, educational poverty and social exclusion; institutions, the private sector, NGOs and CSOs. Calls on the Commission to regularly report to the Parliament on the state of the implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates the need to improve the collection of comparable and reliable disaggregated data in order to help monitor and assess progress towards ending child poverty and social exclusion and inform monitoring and policy making; in this regard welcomes the inclusion of national frameworks for data collection under the national action plans to implement the Child Guarantee;

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Amendment 165 Miriam Lexmann

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16. Calls on the Member States to 16. Calls on the Member States to develop multi-annual action plans and develop multi-annual action plans and national plans on the basis of the identified national plans on the basis of the identified specific groups of children in need, specific groups of children in need, objectives and the required funding. objectives and the required funding. Recalls the importance of involving all Recalls the importance of involving all responsible regional and local authorities responsible regional and local authorities and relevant stakeholders, including those and relevant stakeholders, including those in the social economy. Reminds Member in the social economy. Reminds Member States and the Commission to inform States and the Commission to inform Parliament on the state of the Parliament on the state of the implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates the need to improve the collection of the need to improve the collection of disaggregated data in order to help monitor quality disaggregated data in order to help and assess progress towards ending child monitor and assess progress towards poverty and social exclusion; ending child poverty and social exclusion; reiterates the importance of enabling Member States to exchange the best practices;

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Amendment 166 Katrin Langensiepen

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AM\1228042EN.docx 95/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN and assess progress towards ending child Guarantee; reiterates the need to improve poverty and social exclusion; the collection of disaggregated data in order to help monitor and assess progress towards ending child poverty and social exclusion;

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Amendment 167 Brando Benifei

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16. Calls on the Member States to 16. Calls on the Member States to develop multi-annual action plans and develop multi-annual action plans and national plans on the basis of the identified national plans on the basis of the identified specific groups of children in need, specific groups of children in need, objectives and the required funding. objectives and the required funding; Recalls the importance of involving all Recalls the importance of involving all responsible regional and local authorities responsible regional and local authorities and relevant stakeholders, including those and relevant stakeholders, including the in the social economy. Reminds Member social economy, as well as the children States and the Commission to inform and their parents themselves; Reminds Parliament on the state of the Member States and the Commission to implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates inform Parliament on the state of the the need to improve the collection of implementation of the Guarantee; reiterates disaggregated data in order to help monitor the need to improve the collection of and assess progress towards ending child disaggregated data, both at the Member poverty and social exclusion; States and EU level, in order to help monitor and assess progress towards ending child poverty and social exclusion; Highlights the need for all Member States to develop better quality indicators to grasp the real incidence of poverty in all fields of intervention of the Child Guarantee in order to grasp adequately the multidimensional challenges related to child poverty and social exclusion in education and care, healthcare, housing and access to adequate nutrition and with a view to strengthen its outreach to the most disadvantaged children;

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Amendment 168 Dragoș Pîslaru, Alin Mituța, Samira Rafaela, Marie Pierre Vedrenne, Ilana Cicurel, Sylvie Brunet, Veronique Trillet-Lenoir, Monica Semedo, Anna Donath

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17. Calls on the Council to swiftly 17. Calls on the Council to swiftly adopt the proposal for a Council adopt the proposal for a Council recommendation for establishing a recommendation for establishing a European Child Guarantee; European Child Guarantee and on Member States to implement it, and in particular ensure the establishment of competent national Child Guarantee Coordinators, equipped with adequate resources and a strong mandate, without delay. Calls for these Coordinators to duly report on the progress made every two years and to regularly exchange best practices with their counterparts. Calls on the Commission to ensure a reinforced institutional coordination.

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Amendment 169 Katrin Langensiepen

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17a. Calls on the European Council to unblock the Women on Boards Directive; stresses that women in leadership representation conditions girls and young women’s school and career choice and contributes to ending inequalities in certain sectors of the job market where women are less represented, as well as

AM\1228042EN.docx 97/98 PE691.204v01-00 EN improving the working conditions of feminised sectors.

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