After years of negotiations, evidence-based advocacy, and hard work, Eurodiaconia – as part of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children – is delighted to welcome the EPSCO Council adoption of the Council Recommendation establishing the European Child Guarantee today.

The EU has successfully set up an innovative framework which aims at breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and social exclusion by calling on EU Member States to guarantee access to basic rights and services for children in need such as children with disabilities and mental health issues, homeless children, children in migration or with a minority ethnic origin (particularly Roma), children in the alternative (especially institutional) care system and children living in precarious family situations.

The Recommendation has been adopted by all the 27 Member States, which shows the EU’s renewed commitment to tackle child poverty in the EU and to champion the rights of the 18 million children growing up in poverty and social exclusion across the EU.

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