During an S&D conference today on the European Child Guarantee, the S&D vice-president for economic and social affairs, Mercedes Bresso, and the S&D MEPs Brando Benifei and Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, called for putting an end to child poverty in the EU. The Child Guarantee is a new instrument developed by the S&D Group in 2014 to tackle the multidimensional aspects of child poverty. It would ensure that every European child at risk of poverty has access to free quality health care, free quality education, free quality childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition.