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New option to browse practices mapped along the Recommendation for Investing in Children |
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The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) website is constantly evolving, most recently adding a section called About the Recommendation for Investing in Children. The European Commission adopted the Recommendation in February 2013. It proposes a long-term social strategy to help overcome the current economic crisis and to strengthen the capacity of individuals. It provides guidance for European Union Member States on how to tackle child poverty and social exclusion through measures such as family support and benefits, quality childcare and early-childhood education.
The Recommendation's policy areas addressing child poverty and social exclusion and promoting children's well-being are organised along three pillars: Access to adequate resources; Access to affordable quality services; Children's right to participate.
Visitors to the EPIC Practices that Work section can now view all practices included in the section assigned to these pillars and policy categories according to those which they align most soundly with. This provides website users with a new way to browse for practices.
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Practices that Work section – recent practice examples |
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Below are two of the latest additions to the Practices that Work section. Two evidence-based practices were recently added:
North Karelia Youth Project (Finland)
The North Karelia Youth Project offered a community and school-based educational intervention for seventh graders (students aged 13) to decrease the social desirability of smoking and coach them to resist peer, adult, and media pressure to smoke. The goal of the program was to decrease the number of children who would start smoking for the first time and reduce all the lifetime exposure to tobacco for all children in the program area.
Parents' Briefcase (France)
La Mallette des parents' [the parents' briefcase] is an ongoing project that aims to involve parents more in their children's education in around 80 schools in France. It is run by the Academie de Creteil, which comes under the direct authority of the France's Ministry for Education. The programme was set up to improve relations between parents and teachers and to help parents understand more about how their child is taught so that they can contribute to their child's success at school. |
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Practices that Work section - new recognition logos for practice organisations |
| New logos are available which recognise that a practice has been listed on the EPIC website. If a practice has been listed in the User Registry the practice contact will be sent the following recognition logo so that they may use it on their websites or newsletters:
The following logo is sent to those contacts whose practices are listed in the Evidence Based practices section of the website. These practices have demonstrated their effectiveness through rigorous research, they have been reviewed by a team of experts and meet EPIC's evidence criteria.
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Use our new feedback form to engage with EPIC |
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A new online feedback form allows partners and website users to engage with EPIC on all aspects of the website.
The EPIC team is looking forward to feedback users might have on topics such as the quality of the material on the website, usability, or the process for submitting a practice to EPIC.
Feedback, once submitted, will be considered for future improvements to the website and selected feedback will be posted in forum.
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| IN THE SPOTLIGHT |
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The Underwear Rule campaign
Statistics drawn from Unicef, International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation indicate that one in five children in Europe are victims of a form of sexual abuse. With its ONE in FIVE campaign the Council of Europe aims to stop sexual violence against children. One strand of the ONE in FIVE campaign is called The Underwear Rule.
European Commission releases progress report on the Barcelona Targets
On 3rd June 2013, the European Commission released a progress report on the Barcelona objectives, agreed in 2002, to improve the provision of childcare facilities. Key findings show that only eight Member States have met the targets, which state that childcare should be provided for 90% of children between three years old and the mandatory school age, and for 33% of children under three.
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| REPORTS |
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Ending the hidden exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015
(Save the Children report, 2013)
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Caring for children and dependants: effect on careers of young workers
(Eurofound, 2013)
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Support for Children with Special Educational Needs
(DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, European Alliance for Families, 2012)
Read more...
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