These are papers built through consultation of COFACE members, with recommendations for action at national and EU level.
COFACE Families Europe adopted 14 Digitalisation principles for creating a better Internet and web for all.
This position paper adopted end 2024 analyses how the quality of interaction between ECEC services and families can enhance educational outcomes and the overall experience for both children and parents.
In order to boost the shift towards fully inclusive societies, the COFACE Disability platform for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families produced the S.H.I.F.T. guide in 2019, which proposes 5 objectives, 15 tools, and 45 actions in the areas of Support, Human rights, Independence, Families and society Transition to achieve meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities and their families.
The European Charter addresses the needs of family carers irrespective of the cause of the person’s support need.
In 2019, COFACE Families Europe mobilised voters locally through its member organisations (representing families of all types, without discrimination). These recommendations are addressed at EU-level policymakers in the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the EU, from whom we expect joint leadership to ensure tangible results for Europe’s citizens. It is on this basis that we have assessed the European Union's work from 2019 to 2024, and how it contributes to achieving eight positive outcomes for families of today.
This publication adopted ten years ago in 2012 consists of the COFACE position on the family dimension of the UNCRPD, followed by the integral text of the Convention.
We are an organisation that works for the rights of all families in Europe since 1958. In short, we are called ‘COFACE’. We wrote this easy-to-read booklet to talk about our aims for 2020-2024.
In this COFACE Strategic Framework, we provide a comprehensive, integrated, and long-term strategy to develop appropriate 21st-century policies to support the achievement of 8 positive outcomes for all families.
COFACE-Families Europe is concerned about the social and environmental sustainability of the current economic system.
