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Professor Wass.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Okay. Could I just bring in Joel James, and then I'll come back to you, Jane?
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Fine. Professor Jones, you wanted to come in.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Dr Bryan.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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I beg your pardon. Anything further to add? If not, Jane, move on.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Professor Wass.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Okay. Who would like to start off? Obviously, it's quite a wide question. Who'd like to kick off? Melanie, go ahead.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're continuing our inquiry into disability and employment, and I'm very pleased to welcome Professor Melanie Jones and Professor Victoria Wass, from Cardiff University—and thank you very much indeed…
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Very good. Thank you so much for your time. We’re now going to take a short break. Our next session will start at roughly a quarter to, so in about six minutes, with our academic colleagues.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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We'd only want brief answers, and we hopefully wouldn’t take too much of your time. So, thank you very much. We’ll be sending you a transcript, if there’s anything you don’t think is accurate please do correct it.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Thank you. We have run out of time. Thank you very much indeed for your important evidence and for setting the scene for our evidence sessions. If we’ve got any further questions, perhaps we can just write to you.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Thank you. Joel James.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Yes. We obviously need to measure outcomes and that's one of the ways in which we can do it. Mick, back to you.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Us. [Laughter.]
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Very good. Mick Antoniw, please.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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We're hearing what you're saying, but we have a number of specific questions we need to cover.
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Sioned Williams.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Thank you. Jane Dodds.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Thank you for that. Julie, back to you.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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I do.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Can I just come in and ask about the role of trade unions, because it's very difficult for the individual to start negotiating as an individual on their own? What role do they play in terms of supporting people who need adjustments to enable them to be…
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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I beg your pardon. I'm so sorry.
30 Medi 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
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Thank you for that summary. Can I now call Sioned Williams?
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Right. Looking at it from the point of view of somebody who's disabled, and the poor level of engagement of employers, particularly in viewing this as a social issue, rather than just simply, 'Are we going to make adjustments to enable somebody to join the…
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I think that will emerge. I suppose you included specific actions in the recommendations of the disability rights taskforce, which is, obviously, involving what would appear to be a large number of stakeholders in different working groups. So, what progress…