The European Child Guarantee (ECG) is a Recommendation of the Council of the European Union (Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 of the Council of 14 June 2021 establishing the European Child Guarantee) approved on 14 June 2021 unanimously by the Member States, aimed at preventing and combating child poverty, breaking its intergenerational transmission cycle and promoting equal opportunities by ensuring that children and adolescents at risk of poverty or social exclusion have effective and free access to a set of basic services: Education and childcare, Healthcare, Education and extracurricular activities, Adequate housing, At least one healthy meal per school day, Healthy nutrition.
The European Child Guarantee in Spain
It is developed through the State Action Plan for the implementation of the European Child Guarantee (2022-2030) approved on 5 July 2022.
Our vision of the European Child Guarantee is that...
All girls, boys and adolescents have the conditions, means and basic services that allow them to exercise their rights, enjoy well-being and fully develop as individuals in an equitable environment. They can live in safe environments and develop their capacities and potential within a society that guarantees equal rights and opportunities from an early age.
Our mission of the European Child Guarantee is...
To promote the implementation of measures by the public administration, in close cooperation with civil society and other stakeholders, to ensure that children and adolescents fully enjoy their rights equally, prevent and combat social exclusion and child poverty, ensure equal opportunities, avoid discrimination, and promote the active participation of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations in the policies that affect them, breaking the cycle of poverty and social exclusion.
Coordination of the European Child Guarantee in Spain
The Directorate General for Children's and Adolescents' Rights (DGDIA), under the Secretariat of State for Youth and Childhood of the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, is responsible for coordinating and supervising the ECG at the national level.
The governance system of the Plan has a political level (interministerial and sectoral conferences), an operational level (among the General State Administration, Autonomous Communities/Cities and municipalities) and a consultative level (participation mechanisms of civil society, children and adolescents).
In compliance with the reporting commitments made with the European Commission, the “First Biennial Progress Report on the Implementation of the European Child Guarantee” has been produced detailing the initiatives to combat child poverty carried out in Spain by the General State Administration and the Autonomous Communities and Cities with statute of autonomy since the approval of the PAEGIE until December 2023.
For the preparation of this report, the Directorate General for Children's and Adolescents' Rights (DGDIA), under the Ministry of Youth and Childhood and responsible for coordinating and supervising the ECG at the national level, has consulted with the ministries, the Autonomous Communities, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), and the public bodies that are implementing measures within their competences that contribute to achieving the objectives of the PAEGIE, State Action Plan for the Implementation of the ECG (2022-2030). Each entity has provided essential information, reflecting the actions carried out both with their own funds and with funds from the General State Budget and the financing of the European Union.
English version (Biennial progress report ECG)
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish