Nomination

Saatja: <"SM Info"> Saadetud: 25.04.2023 09:30 Adressaat: <"SM Info"> Teema: FW: SPC follow-up: nomination of national long-term care coordinator Manused: image001.png; Letter LTC coordinators_EE.pdf From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2023 6:38 PM Subject: SPC follow-up: nomination of national long-term care coordinator Dear SPC Members, As mentioned during the AOB item at the last SPC meeting, please see below and attached a follow up concerning the nomination of long-term care coordinators (or the designation of another appropriate coordination mechanism). Dear SPC delegates Following up to the Commission’s intervention on 21 April with regard to the implementation of the Council Recommendation on access to high- quality affordable long-term care, we would like to convey our thanks to the Member States which have already reached back to the Commission with information concerning the nomination of a long-term care coordinator or another appropriate coordination mechanism. These are Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Ireland, Poland and Spain. Please see enclosed for your information and follow-up at national level the letters of Commissioner Schmit to his counterparts in all 27 Member States. We would like to underline the importance of getting timely feedback and to solicit your support to secure a smooth and swift nomination process. The identification of the right counterparts at country level will allow the Commission services to assist in addressing implementation challenges via mutual learning, technical support and expertise, including in coordination with the Social Protection Committee and the Employment Committee, as relevant. In the short term, such networking and mutual learning opportunities include the kick off meeting of the national coordinators, back to back with a mutual learning seminar on the quality of long-term care services. This event is planned as a physical meeting in Brussels, on 20-21 June. It will benefit by the presence of Commissioner Schmit. We  count on the participation of two representatives from each Member State: the national coordinator (or member of the coordination mechanism) and one national policy-maker with expertise in long-term care quality. More details on the event, including a link for registration, will follow shortly. Many thanks in advance, EMPL D2 Unit Kind regards, Georgi Georgi KARAGHIOZOV Social Protection Committee Secretariat European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion Unit D1 Tel.: +32 2 29 68 542 E-mail: [email protected] SPC website: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=758&langId=en Ref. Ares(2023)1164858 - 17/02/2023 Rue de la Loi, 200 NICOLAS SCHMIT B-1049 Brussels MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Tel. +32-2 295 00 90 JOBS AND SOCIAL RIGHTS [email protected] Brussels, 17/02/2023 Ares(2023) 789074 Subject: Implementation of the Council Recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care Dear Minister, I am pleased that the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council adopted unanimously the Council Recommendation on access to affordable high- quality long-term care1 on 8 December 2022. I would like to warmly thank you for your support for the Recommendation, which contributes to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and to achieving the headline targets on employment, skills and poverty reduction for 2030 across the EU, as welcomed by EU leaders at the Porto Summit in May 2021 and endorsed by the European Council. The Recommendation calls on Member States to improve access to affordable, high- quality long-term care for all people who need it. This entails ensuring the adequacy of social protection for long-term care, continuously aligning the offer of long-term care services to the respective needs, ensuring that high-quality criteria and standards are established for all care settings and applied to all providers, supporting quality employment and fair working conditions in the sector, improving the professionalisation of care work and addressing skills needs and worker shortages, as well as supporting informal carers in their caregiving activities. ./... 1 Council Recommendation of 8 December 2022 on access to affordable high-quality long-term care (2022/C 476/01) EUR-Lex - 32022H1215(01) - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu) Ms Signe Riisalo Minister of Social Protection Estonia With this letter, I urge you to launch work on the implementation of this Council Recommendation at national level. I would like to highlight the importance of ensuring sound policy governance in long-term care, including an effective coordination mechanism to design, deploy and monitor policy actions and investments in this area, as called for under the Council Recommendation. In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to have in place a long-term care coordinator or another appropriate coordination mechanism, in accordance with national circumstances, to support implementation at national level. Therefore, I invite you to share with our services ([email protected]) information concerning the national coordinator or the appropriate coordination arrangements, including contact details, as soon as possible and at the latest by 17 April 2023. This will allow the Commission services to assist addressing implementation challenges via mutual learning, technical support, and policy expertise, including in coordination with the Social Protection Committee and the Employment Committee. I also would like to recall that the Recommendation invites Member States to share with the Commission within 18 months from its adoption, i.e. by June 2024, the set of measures taken or planned to implement it, building where relevant on existing national strategies or plans and taking into account national, regional and local circumstances. In this context, it is important to involve relevant stakeholders, for example, social partners, civil society organisations, social economy actors, professional training and education institutions, care recipients and other stakeholders, at national, regional and local levels in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the planned measures. Finally, I would like to underline the importance of monitoring and focusing on results. The Commission will work further with the Social Protection Committee to establish a framework of indicators for monitoring the implementation of this Recommendation, building on the joint work on common indicators on long-term care and other monitoring frameworks. The framework will help monitor progress in implementing this Recommendation in the context of the European Semester and the Social Open Method of Coordination. It will also inform the Commission report to the Council within five years from the adoption of this Recommendation. I look forward to a prompt start of the implementation of the Recommendation and receiving information on the long-term care coordinator or member(s) of the coordination mechanism by 17 April at the latest. ../…  My services remain at your disposal via [email protected] and should you need further information you could also contact directly Dana-Carmen Bachmann ([email protected]), Head of the Social Protection Unit in DG EMPL, or her collaborators Flaviana Teodosiu ([email protected]) and Diana Eriksonaite ([email protected]). Yours faithfully, Nicolas Schmit Electronically signed on 17/02/2023 10:26 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121