Strengthening the European Child Guarantee for Social Rights
The European Child Guarantee aims to improve the lives of children through various measures such as workforce development, training, and monitoring progress. Key aspects include enhancing monitoring frameworks, workforce strategies, and data analysis to ensure effective implementation. National coordinators play a crucial role in research and progress evaluation. Recommendations focus on enhancing targets, indicators, and evaluation methods for continuous improvement of the Child Guarantee.
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European Child Guarantee: from engagement to reality Daniel Molinuevo, Research Manager, Eurofound Brussels, 2-3 May 2024
Further implementing and strengthening the European Child Guarantee is key, including with an improvement of its monitoring La La Hulpe Hulpe Declaration on the Future of the European Pillar of Social Rights Declaration on the Future of the European Pillar of Social Rights 1. 1. European Child Guarantee monitor European Child Guarantee monitor 2. 2. Working paper on the European Child Guarantee workforce Working paper on the European Child Guarantee workforce 3. 3. Working paper on Analysis of the European Child Guarantee monitoring Working paper on Analysis of the European Child Guarantee monitoring frameworks frameworks 4. 4. Research starting this year in which National Coordinators can be involved Research starting this year in which National Coordinators can be involved
European Child European Child Guarantee Monitor Guarantee Monitor Analysis of trends in all Analysis of trends in all areas of the Guarantee. areas of the Guarantee. Data available for Data available for reporting on reporting on implementation of implementation of progress. progress. https://eurofound.link/child- guarantee
The The European European Child Child Guarantee Guarantee workforce workforce Many measures deal with services, but few deal specifically with the workforce. Jobs approach, combining occupation and sectors. Mapping of data sources at the international level dealing with workforce issues. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publica tions/eurofound-paper/2024/european-child- guarantee-workforce
Receipt of training, by sector and subsector in 2021, EU27 (%) Receipt of training, by sector and subsector in 2021, EU27 (%) Source: European Working Conditions Survey. Opportunity to feature the European Working Conditions Survey in the Guarantee https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys/european-working- conditions-surveys/european-working-conditions-survey-2024
Analysis of the European Child Guarantee monitoring Analysis of the European Child Guarantee monitoring and evaluation frameworks and evaluation frameworks Overview of the targets, objectives and frameworks for monitoring and evaluation. Recommendations on how to improve and/or complement the existing targets, objectives and indicators. https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/pub lications/eurofound-paper/2024/analysis- european-child-guarantee-monitoring- frameworks
Objectivesand targets and targets Objectives Portugal includes baselines, intermediate and final (2030) targets linked to objectives and indicators.
Targets, measures and indicators Targets, measures and indicators ES, LT and SK provide tables linking targets with measures and indicators. PT and ES present tables outlining the specific financial resources and budget allocations for their CG objectives.
Howcan be better monitor and evaluate? can be better monitor and evaluate? How Staff Staff provides useful information about specific groups of children and about the additional resources additional resources needed to support them. It would be advisable to include at least some input indicators indicators to have a better understanding of the changes brought by the Guarantee. Using multiple indicators multiple indicators that cover a single target allows for a mix of administrative data and international survey data. Lastly, improving data requires closer cooperation between users and producers of statistics. specific groups input closer cooperation
Newresearch researchstarting startingthis thisyear year New Involvement of workers in the European Child Guarantee What are policies in place in your country incentivising the training of staff that is working with children? What are the main training needs of staff that is working with children? What are the aspects of working conditions that need to be improved the most? Link between changes in working conditions and the accessibility of services.
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