The stakes of the sector must count as priorities and be better pinpointed in the funding of the Cohesion Policy. The “thematic / specific objectives” are defined by the European Commission and then broken down (or not) by the management authorities (State or Region) in their Operational Programmes. The stakes are therefore two-fold: ensure that the home employment sector (and the related issues) is well-covered by the TO/SO proposed by the Commission, and ensure that the management authorities then take them up locally and choose to devolve a part of their budget to this type of action rather than to others.
- A part of the vocational training could be financed by European Funds such as the European Social Fund (ESF). Although the ESF currently allows to fund a part of vocational training, here it would be a question of targeting the persons who are the furthest away from employment and who could benefit from training and qualification actions of employees of the sector, in particular migrants.
- Experiments on a regional / local level could be carried out in order to fund cross-sector projects related to home employment.
- Moreover, when defining their regional innovation schemes, European regions could develop a more inclusive and pluralistic vision, in particular through social innovation. In this respect, it would be relevant to allow the funding of research in social sciences in order to provide a better response to the sector’s stakes in the forthcoming period. Finally, in light of objective no. 4, Structural Funds could be used to fund the integration of migrants at a local scale. This indication is included in the Commission’s proposals for post-2020 ESF+ fund program.
