Translation of "social services planning consultant " (English → French) :

24. Notes the necessity of dealing adequately with new types of family, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, and of enlarging the scope of social services, such as accessible childcare, care for those with special needs or disabilities, and long-term care for elderly persons, while maintaining a high level of consultation in medium and long-term planning;

24. notes the necessity to deal adequately with new types of family, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, and enlarge the scope of social services, such as accessible childcare, care for those with special needs or disabilities, and long-term-care for elderly persons; while maintaining a high level of consultation involving local social players in medium and long-term planning;

It also opens up a process of wide consultation, open to all actors of the sectors, Member States, Social Partners, NGOs and operators of social services, through which the Commission will better take into account the specificities of those services when implementing EU legislation.

The salient points on the social side concerned the contexts of: employment, where -the priority given in national policies to the creation of jobs and on the role of employment as an essential factor of integration were stressed; -the summit also gave prominence to the promotion of the fundamental rights and interests of workers through respect of the ILO Conventions on the banning of forced and child labour, the freedom of workers to organise and bargain collectively and the principle of non-discrimination; -in addition, the count ...[+++]ries represented were urged to encourage the establishment of employer/employee relations in their national legislations; poverty, for which: - the structural causes were recognised along with the need for a multi- dimensional approach involving the poor themselves; - a commitment was received from all the countries to announce as soon as possible national plans to reduce all forms of poverty and to eradicate absolute poverty; prevention of exclusion, for which: - the role and importance of society in general in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of social policy were acknowledged; - the need for access for everyone to basic social services such as health care and education was recognised; equal opportunities for men and women, where: - the role and importance of the involvement of women in social, political, cultural and economic life were highlighted as part of the lead-up to the fourth World Women's Conference in Beijing; human rights, where: - respect for all human rights and for democracy as essential elements in development were explicitly and unequivocally acknowledged.

Collection, registration, monitoring and reporting at national level of comprehensive diabetes epidemiological and economic data as well as data on the underlying factors; Development and implementation of framework plans, as appropriate, addressing diabetes and/or its determinants, of evidence-based disease prevention, screening and management founded on best practices and comprising an evaluation system with measurable targets to track health outcomes and cost-effectiveness, taking into account Member States’ organisation and delivery of their respective health services, ethical, legal, cultural and other relevant issues and available ...[+++] resources; Development of evidence-based, sustainable and cost-effective public awareness and primary prevention measures that are accessible and affordable to meet the needs of those most at risk of developing diabetes as well as the population as a whole; Development of affordable and accessible secondary prevention measures based on national evidence-based guidelines and aimed at detecting and preventing the development of diabetes complications; Adoption of a holistic, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary management approach to people with diabetes including an emphasis on prevention, involving primary, secondary and community care, social services and education services; Further development of comprehensive diabetes training for healthcare professionals.

The main points are set forth below: The Commission proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to certain employment relationships with regard to distortions of competition (based on Article 100 of the Treaty) provides : - that part-time and temporary workers should enjoy access to vocational training operations and social services provided by the firm under conditions comparable to those enjoyed by workers employed fulltime for an indefinite duration; they should also enjoy the same treatment as regards benefits in cash and in kind granted under social assistance schemes or under non-contributory social security schemes; - such employees should also be taken into account, on the same f ...[+++]ooting as the other employees (and in proportion to the duration of their work) for the calculation of the threshhold within the undertaking at which workers' representative bodies must be set up. Where the employer intends to use such employees, he is required to inform (and consult) in due time the workers' representative bodies within the undertaking, and in undertakings with more than 1 000 employees a regular report must be drawn up on this type of employment with regard to the development of the workforce as a whole. In the same vein, the employer is required in due time to inform part-time and temporary workers currently in employment when he proposes to recruit full-time workers for an indefinite duration, so that their applications can be given due consideration; ./.