5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Who'd like to start?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Okay. Well, we clearly need to have that conversation with the Minister in due course. Very good. If I could now ask Sioned Williams to come in.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Excellent. And, Pippa, could you just elaborate on why it is that some local education authorities have no input from speech and language therapists?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Yes, in the first instance, and then I'll come back to colleagues in the room.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Okay. But there are 10 local authorities where there is no speech and language therapist, which is a bit worrying. Is this a conversation you've had with any of these local authorities, as to why they don't think a speech and language therapist is needed?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Adam Edwards, as you're the youth offending service team manager, how confident are you that your teams are aware of the prevalence of these problems?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
So, you offer free training to anybody who's in the youth justice sector. How good is the take-up across the piece?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
Thank you for that additional background information. So, given that we're talking about 60 to 90 per cent of all the young people who are coming into contact with the youth justice system, how confident are you that there's a shared recognition and…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
You said they 'might' become disengaged from education. If they haven't got the reading level required for secondary education, it's almost certain they're going to become disengaged, is it not? Kim, do you want to just respond to that?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Profiadau o’r system cyfiawnder troseddol: pobl ifanc ag anghenion lleferydd, iaith a chyfathrebu—panel un
We are conducting a one-day inquiry into the experience of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system. I’m very pleased to welcome Pippa Cotterill, head of the Wales office for the Royal College of Speech and…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. I hope you'll be able to hear me, and also the simultaneous translation that is available.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Okay. Can you hear me now, Jane? We'll just take a break while we sort this out outside the public domain.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Thank you for pointing that out. Could somebody—?
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Good afternoon, everybody. I'd like to welcome you to the Equality and Social Justice Committee, and this afternoon we're conducting an inquiry into the experience of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Thank you very much for allowing me to join you.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
That's good to know.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
—women in prison, both to their children, because it normally leads to the children going into care—. I really want to get a sense of the urgency, given that it's 15 years since Jean Corston wrote that report, and here we are. Governments of both stripes are…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Okay, but given the cost of—
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Okay. So, that would be a UK ministerial decision.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
So, if the Swansea venture doesn't come off, for whatever reason, it would be perfectly possible to vire that money into other ways of avoiding women being sent into custodial sentences.
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Twenty-four million pounds has been allocated to support women in or at risk of contact of the criminal justice system over the next three years. That's excellent, but to what extent do the Welsh Government and its partners have any control or influence over…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Well, perhaps we can send you the—
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
The Equality and Social Justice Committee has taken evidence from the Magistrates' Association, so we can tell you that half of the magistrates had never heard of the women's justice blueprint—that comes from their chief executive—and we were also told by the…
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Okay. We'll come back to women's—
5 Rhagfyr 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Arglwydd Bellamy CB, Is-ysgrifennydd Gwladol Seneddol dros Gyfiawnder: Cyfiawnder yng Nghymru
Okay. I think the concern is that improving recidivism is really difficult if we've got this jagged edge where some services are supposed to be joining up—housing, et cetera—and others are not devolved and they're all based in Whitehall.
