To feed into the European Commission’s preparations around
Recommendation on Child Poverty planned for early 2013, EPHA
publishes a set of Policy Recommendations on Child Poverty,
Health and Well-being aimed at preventing and tackling child
poverty by addressing health promotion and disease of the child
population. The recommendation will be presented on the occasion
of EPHA’s European Parliament seminar on the same issue on 4
December 2012. EPHA Secretariat, together with its members,
prepared a set of policy recommendations, calling for a
strengthened health dimension in the fight against child poverty
in the 27 EU Member States. This is in preparation for the
upcoming Commission Recommendation on Child Poverty and Well-
being (early 2013), and follows on from the Social Protection
Committee’s (SCP) report on the issue. It also builds on the
Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union’s
Conclusions on the subject of "Preventing and tackling child
poverty and social exclusion and promoting children