Indeed, despite that the Implementation Reports demonstrate that Member States have taken many of the necessary steps to implement the programmes, only a few Member States have adopted a fully integrated "lifecycle approach" to employment. More efforts are needed to hit the target agreed last year for every young person who has left school or university to be offered a job, training or other employability measure within six months of becoming unemployed.
Gender gaps remain also wide and availability of affordable child care is still a problem in a number of Member States which makes it more difficult to reconcile work and private life. Moreover, Member States are showing limited progress on modernising their employment protection legislation.