86. Calls on the Member States to take effective measures to achieve the Barcelona targets for childcare services; calls on the Commission and the Member States to formulate recommendations as to how to meet the need for care services in Europe (more particularly the organising and financing of care for children and other dependent persons), including setting precise targets and indicators, with the aim of providing childcare facilities across the Union for 90% of children from birth until mandatory school age and a sufficient level of care provision for other dependent persons by 2015; underlines the fact that all services should meet ...[+++] the criteria of affordability, accessibility and good quality, so that bringing up children and caring for dependents is no longer a special 'poverty risk' for women;

86. Calls on the Member States to take effective measures to achieve the Barcelona targets for childcare services; calls on the Commission and the Member States to formulate recommendations as to how to meet the need for care services in Europe (more particularly the organising and financing of care for children and other dependent persons), including setting precise targets and indicators, with the aim of providing childcare facilities across the Union for 90% of children from birth until mandatory school age and a sufficient level of care provision for other dependent persons by 2015; underlines the fact that all services should meet ...[+++] the criteria of affordability, accessibility and good quality, so that bringing up children and caring for dependents is no longer a special 'poverty risk' for women;

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop an Open Method of Coordination in the field of care services in order to formulate recommendations on how to meet the need for provision of care services in Europe (i.e. the organising and financing of care for children and other dependent persons), including setting precise targets and indicators, with the aim of providing childcare facilities for 90% of children from birth until mandatory school age across the EU and a sufficient level of care provision for other dependent ...[+++] persons by 2015; underlines that all services should meet the criteria of affordability, accessibility and good quality so that bringing up children and caring for dependents is no longer especially a 'poverty risk' for women;

[9] The primary importance of childcare as a support to the work participation of parents is borne out by Council Recommendation 92/241/EEC of 31 March 1992 which urged Member States to "take and/or encourage initiatives to provide childcare while parents are working, are following a course of education or training in order to obtain employment or are seeking a job or a course of education or training in order to obtain employment".

N. whereas lack of high quality, affordable child care provision makes working life more difficult for women, and whereas the 1992 Recommendation on Child Care has proved insufficient in ensuring adequate child care provision in all Member States,

the provision of childcare services while parents are either working, studying or training or actively seeking work,