Eurocarers Policy Working Group

Meeting on 26th October 2021

Meeting agenda:

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Background documents

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‘Enhancing the social rights of informal carers: the way forward’ (Eurocarers, 2020)

Eurocarers’ fact sheet on Informal care, Poverty and Social Exclusion  (Eurocarers, 2018)

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Ireland

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Germany

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France

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Meeting on 16th March 2021

The first EPWG webinar of the year 2021 focused mainly on the European Action Plan to implement the Social Pillar, assessing to what extent it takes into account Eurocarers’ detailed contribution ‘Enhancing the social rights of informal carers: the way forward’ prepared by the group last year, and discussed follow-up actions. The meeting presentation and other documents are available for download here below.

Meeting documents:

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• Eurocarers contribution to the public consultation on the Social Pillar’s Action Plan can be downloaded in here
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Few links to items mentioned by participants during the meeting:

• The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan
• Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan 
• Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030
• More information on the European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group can be found on Eurocarers website in here. Scroll to the bottom of the mentioned page to find links to the meeting reports of prior meetings.
• Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland
• Decree (July 2019) on recognition of informal carers in Madeira Archipelago, Portugal (in Portuguese)
• Decree (November 2019) on recognition of informal carers on Azores Islands, Portugal (in Portuguese)

Meeting on 19th November 2020: 

• [download id=”33292″] (added on 30th November)
• [download id=”32893″] (updated on 17th November)
• [download id=”33011″] (added on 19th November)
• [download id=”33020″] (added on 19th November)
• [download id=”33024″] (added on 19th November)

Meeting on 30th September 2020:

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