Local Units

Child Guarantee Local Units

For an effective application and successful implementation of the Child Guarantee National Plan 2022-2030 measures, it is essential to ensure the establishment of an integrated social intervention, based on local action and proximity to the poverty and social exclusion phenomena, taking into account the specific needs of children and young people and their families, in order to ensure an adequate identification and mobilisation of resources and interventions to solve the problems identified. In this context, the Social Network proves to be the most appropriate and effective structure, within the scope of the Social Action Local Councils, for the creation of Local Child Guarantee Units.

CHILD GUARANTEE LOCAL UNITS

The involvement of local entities is fundamental for ensuring the implementation of public policies and local actions, especially attentive to the particularities of each territory and the needs of the populations.

WHAT ARE THEY?

The Child Guarantee Local Units are representative structures whose main objective is the local implementation of the Child Guarantee Action Plan, which, through their partners, develop a work that focuses on the strategic planning of local social intervention, involving different social actors, of various natures and intervention areas, with the aim of contributing to the eradication of child poverty and the promotion of social development at the local level.

COMPOSITION

The Child Guarantee Local Units should integrate partners from the sectoral areas covered by Council Recommendation (EU) 2021/1004 of 14 June 2021, namely those responsible for essential services relating to early childhood care, education and school-based activities, health, healthy eating and adequate housing, and may always include persons/entities that are not part of the Social Action Local Councils (CLAS) but could be of added value in addressing locally identified problems. This group may have a variable composition, depending on the size of each territory.

COMPETENCES

Carrying out of a social diagnosis that includes the characterisation of the child poverty phenomenon, as well as the problems identified in terms of effective or affective and free access to early childhood education and care, education and school-based activities, at least one healthy meal per school day, health care, healthy eating and adequate housing;
Integration, in the social development plan, of a strategic axis dedicated to prevention and intervention within the scope of child poverty, where strategies are defined to improve responses to existing problems and implement missing responses;
Adoption of the integrated and participated intervention model recommended by the Child Guarantee Action Plan 2022-2030 (PAGPI 2022-2030), making the corresponding adaptations according to the dynamics in the territory;
Implementation of an information collection and sharing system that allows for an updated social diagnosis and contributes to the monitoring of the Child Guarantee Action Plan 2022-2030.