14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
From the information we have, the disability employment gap is consistently higher in Wales than across the UK, particularly for people with a learning disability. Could you give us a brief insight as to why you think it might be higher in Wales than…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're continuing our inquiry into disability and employment. In the committee room, we've got Gerraint Jones-Griffiths, who is the Engage to Change lead ambassador for Learning Disability Wales and…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you for that, for putting that on the record. Thank you very much for your appearance, and we'll obviously send you a transcript. Please do change it if we've got something wrong. We'll now take a short break before the next session, which will be…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay, but not on specific issues around a person who comes to you who's been discriminated against at work.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, you don't work with them—
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. If you could just briefly write to us with where your funding comes from, because obviously it's an important point that, if you're turning down employers who need help because you haven't got enough money, that's an issue. You say there's…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
But you're trying to scrutinise Government, so if you get your money from Government you have a problem. How much of your resources comes from outside Government?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
A couple of quick questions from me. You said earlier that you lack the capacity to respond to employers, that you need more resources. How much of your resources comes from Government and how much from other sources?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. Jane Dodds.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. I'm looking at the clock, and we've still got one more section to go into. Mick, are you content at the moment with that?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, the paper we've got from Learning Disability Wales with the National Centre for Mental Health at Cardiff University, that doesn't fit in with your criteria.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay, thank you. Can I bring back Mick Antoniw, please?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes, apprenticeships.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Two. Okay.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. Moving swiftly on, onto this very subject, Joel James.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. You can come back to that, Mick, when I come back to you later on. Julie Morgan.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Rhian.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Can I just bring in Mick Antoniw, who's been trying to come in for a little while, before I go to Julie Morgan?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Okay. Thank you.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you. Sioned Williams.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
We will look forward to that, hopefully in the not-too-distant future. Lastly from me, before I hand over to one of the other Members, some of the evidence that we have received highlights that people with certain conditions—neurodivergence with a learning…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Yes, we have got the list.
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
The reason that I am pursuing this is because we are in the last chance saloon here in terms of the action that needs to be taken before the end of this Parliament. I was trying to understand the reasons for the delay in lodging the report that is now under…
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Anabledd a chyflogaeth: sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, the disability and employment group: what were its terms of reference, then?
14 Hydref 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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That's a different one. Okay.
