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Proposal for a Council recommendation establishing the European child guarantee

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Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the creation of a European Child Guarantee with a view to ensuring that ‘every child in Europe at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to the most basic of rights like healthcare and education’. Supporting children from an early age and throughout their childhood is of paramount importance with a view to building a sustainable, equal, inclusive and competitive knowledge economy and a fair society. With the aim of preventing and combating social exclusion, this proposal supports Member States in their efforts to guarantee access to quality key services for children in need: early childhood education and care, education (including school-based activities), healthcare, nutrition, and housing. While most children in the EU already have access to these services, inclusive and truly universal access is vital for ensuring equal opportunities for all children, and in particular those who experience social exclusion due to poverty or other forms of a disadvantage. Social exclusion is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Its key drivers are insufficient resources and poverty, but also lack of equal access to goods and services due to various forms of disadvantage, preventing full participation in the society. The proposal targets children in need, referring to children at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In view of the multi-faceted challenges faced by people with low income, having difficulties to access goods and services or the labour market, a composite indicator being ‘at risk of poverty or social exclusion’ has been agreed at EU level. The indicator measures: (i) the number of people who have an equivalised disposable income (after social transfers) that is less than the at risk of poverty threshold; (ii) severe material deprivation, that captures the lack of basic goods that are needed to guarantee an adequate standard of living in a given society; and (iii) very low work intensity. Children living in such households are particularly prone to social exclusion and are the group targeted by this recommendation. In a majority of EU-27 countries, the rate of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion is higher for children than for the total population
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