On 21 December, EAPN submitted its response to the stakeholder consultation organized by the SPC adhoc group on Child Poverty, following the stakeholder meeting held on the 14th December.The Adhoc group was set up to advise the Commission in developing the 2012 Recommendation on Child Poverty.
The consultation was based on a questionnaire focussing on 3 key questions:
- What is the added valued of a specific EU initiative
- What essential principles should feature in the Recommendation ( support to families, access to services and children's participation and
- What suggestions for mechanisms to implement and monitor the Recommendation, in the context of Europe 2020 and the Social OMC. The SPC will prepare a report on the findings of the consultation which will feed into the Recommendation which will be adopted by June 2012.
