One of the points with the greatest social impact will be the extension from 5 to 20 days of paternity leave for employees of “Citizen Companies”, who will be able to deduct the benefit granted from taxes paid to the Union.
The RNPI, of which Promundo is part, today sent a letter to President Dilma Rousseff asking her to fully sanction the Legal Framework for Early Childhood, a bill approved by Congress and which brings a series of innovations to public policies aimed at children up to six years. The letter also includes an unprecedented cartoon, written by cartoonist and coordinator of the RNPI Executive Secretariat Claudius Ceccon, which illustrates the activists' desire to defend and promote the rights of Brazilian children. Click here to read the full letter .
“Brazil is expressing that it wants this law. Children need it. We, from the National Early Childhood Network, who are intensely engaged in the processing and improvement of the Bill, are now willing to cooperate, in everything within our power, for the implementation of the Legal Framework for Early Childhood” states an excerpt from the Letter.
Early Childhood Legal Framework
The Legal Framework for Early Childhood (PLC 14/2015) was processed throughout 2014 in the Chamber of Deputies, was unanimously approved in the Federal Senate during the first session of 2016, and is now under analysis by the Federal Government. The National First Infancy Network is proud to have participated in the construction of this project, in countless meetings, seminars and meetings involving numerous member organizations across the country. If it is fully sanctioned, the First Childhood Legal Framework will be the most advanced and complete law in the world. world about comprehensive care for Early Childhood – the period between zero and six years of age. The drafting of the proposal to change the law included broad participation from different sectors of organized civil society: NGOs, foundations, universities and legislators, producing a legal text that combines principles of law, human values, indications from science, professional experience, political conception of the role of the family, society and the State in relation to the child and the government decision to implement the new determinations. “The greatest strength of this law and its most profound, lasting and transformative result is in promoting the “culture of comprehensive care” for the child , from conception to six years of age. All of its provisions start from a perspective of care, in the broad sense of the term, aimed at children as unique and diverse subjects, people and citizens, capable of and participants in what concerns them, but in need, as a right, of the most tender attention, more competent and more responsible”, says Vital Didonet, legislative advisor at Rede Nacional Primeira Infância.
More about the Early Childhood Legal Framework
The Early Childhood Legal Framework determines the formulation and implementation of public policies for early childhood, considering the specificity and relevance of the first years of life in human development. Among the highlights, the bill establishes the creation of an Integrated National Policy for Early Childhood, with an intersectoral approach and coordination, with a comprehensive view of all children's rights in early childhood, with co-responsibility between the Union, states and municipalities .One of the points with the greatest social impact will be the extension of paternity leave from 5 to 20 days for employees of “Citizen Companies”, who will be able to deduct the benefit granted from taxes paid to the Union.In addition to the new law, the Legal Framework foresees changes and complements to the Child and Adolescent Statute, the CLT, the Criminal Procedure Code, the law establishing the Citizen Company and the law on the Declaration of Live Birth.
In the ECA:– Inserts a paragraph that states the co-responsibility of fathers and mothers in the care and education of their children.– Provides that the Union supports the implementation of foster family care services as a public policy and provides special attention to the work of reference educators in institutional care services for children up to three years of age.– Guarantees the right of at least one of the parents to remain full-time as companions in neonatal ICUs.– Ensures that pregnant women in situations of deprivation of liberty have environments suitable to the health and care standards of the SUS for welcoming the child, and guarantees responsible hospital discharge, counter-referral in Primary Care, and access to breastfeeding support services and groups, the same rights as other pregnant women. – Includes the pregnant woman's right to receive guidance on breastfeeding, nutrition healthy complement, child growth and development.
In the CLT: – Provides that the employee stops attending work, without prejudice to salary, for up to two days to attend medical appointments and other exams during the period of pregnancy of his wife or partner, and one day per year, to monitor the child up to six years of age in medical consultation. In the Code of Criminal Procedure: – Provides for the possibility of the judge replacing preventive detention with house arrest in the case of pregnant women, women with children up to 12 years of age, men responsible for the care of children up to 12 years incomplete. – Provides that the police authorities collect information about the existence of children of the accused, and that the information appears in the arrest report in the act.
Law 11,770, “Citizen Company” law: – Establishes 20 days of paternity leave for employees of companies linked to the “Citizen Company” program, including in the case of an employee who adopts a child.
National Early Childhood Network and the Legal Framework
The Legal Framework for Early Childhood implements at the federal level several points contained in the National Plan for Early Childhood, approved by Conanda, and which sets goals to be achieved by 2022, the year of the Bicentenary of Brazil's Independence. It is a letter of commitment from the country to guarantee compliance with the rights of children up to six years of age affirmed by the Federal Constitution, the Child and Adolescent Statute and the laws applied to education, health, social assistance and diversity.
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