29 Ebrill 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol ar ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
In terms of your top line of the aims is to improve children's outcomes and help close the poverty-related attainment gap, how successful have you been in enabling people from less well-off families to ensure that they are getting this valuable service?
29 Ebrill 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol ar ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Very good. I should have said, Martha, that we have, obviously, all read your paper, which is extremely useful at giving us some of the detail. So, it's really just to probe why you did X rather than Y. Jane Malcolm, could I bring you in in terms of how…
29 Ebrill 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol ar ofal plant: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
This is the third evidence session we've done on our childcare follow-up inquiry, and I'm very pleased to welcome Jane Malcolm, the national operations manager for the National Day Nurseries Association Scotland, and Martha Friendly, joining us from Toronto…
29 Ebrill 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We are a bilingual institution, so there is instant translation from Welsh to English for anybody who's joining us today. Before I go on to the discussion of today's scrutiny meeting, I'd just like to…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gwaith Craffu Cyffredinol
There's just so much we need to do on this, because we're facing down big food. The so-called healthy food you're talking about that's available, a lot of it is laced with ultra-processed chemicals that are actually all completely part of the problem. In…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gwaith Craffu Cyffredinol
Okay, I agree that it's not just Eluned Morgan's department that has to deal with this. We're making a significant investment in free school meals for primary school children, but we're having great difficulty in understanding how we get healthy food into…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gwaith Craffu Cyffredinol
Yes. Obviously, one of the biggest challenges that the Welsh Government faces is how we turn the health budget around from being an ill-health service to a service where prevention and primary intervention have a much higher focus, so that we have a healthier…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gwaith Craffu Cyffredinol
Fair enough, but Unite says that 350 staff have already left, and clearly there will be more as a result of this absolutely appalling decision. So, we have to offer people hope as well as capture the really important skills they already have.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Gwaith Craffu Cyffredinol
The key issue is that we don't lose people with transferrable skills. Skills is at the heart of the economy Minister's strategy, and I didn't see anything in the announcement from the economy Minister about how we're going to support people, who are already…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
Exactly, how we marshal the resources to achieve the outcomes.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
The point is the monitoring framework sounds woolly, and it doesn't convince elected Members on the backbenches—collectively, of all parties—that it's going to deliver a sea change in a focus on reducing child poverty.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
We represent very similar constituencies.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
The monitoring framework is just too woolly—
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
So do I, Minister.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
But, if you don't set child poverty reduction targets, you don't have your Government focusing on achieving those child poverty reduction targets, and, against you, you've got the children's commissioner, Audit Wales and the Bevan Foundation and many others…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
The Equality and Social Justice Committee heard a wealth of evidence that the Welsh Government's draft poverty strategy lacked ambition, and focused far too much on what we can't control, which is what goes on at the other end of the M4. So, we can't do…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
Okay.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
But there is an endemic problem, isn't there, that good practice doesn't travel well, and that there is huge variation, as John Griffiths has said, between local authorities? So, we somehow have to get a grip on this because of the urgency for the outcomes…
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
Okay.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
Okay. I urge you to look at why we are consistently missing the targets that the Government sets itself when we hear some local authorities are even suggesting they might go bankrupt as a result of their failure to change the model of support.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
I'm not arguing against that.
26 Ebrill 2024 , Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Plant sydd â phrofiad o fod mewn gofal
What your two civil servants have outlined is, obviously, very important work, but what I'm concerned about is the pace of change, because, despite the fact that we had a First Minister who made this one of his high-level commitments and ambitions, we're…
24 Ebrill 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith, 'Adroddiad ar berfformiad Dŵr Cymru'
Yn bendant. Roedd cynghorau'n arfer dosbarthu casgenni dŵr yng Nghaerdydd, ond yn anffodus, oherwydd y toriadau, nid ydynt yn gwneud hynny mwyach. Ond serch hynny, gall y rheini sy'n gallu gwneud hynny gynaeafu eu dŵr oherwydd mae'n well dŵr ar gyfer y…
24 Ebrill 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Adroddiad y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith, 'Adroddiad ar berfformiad Dŵr Cymru'
Mae hwn yn amlwg yn fater pwysig iawn ac rwy'n siŵr fod ein holl etholwyr yn bryderus iawn yn ei gylch. Mae gennym system ddraenio Fictoraidd nad yw'n addas i'r diben o gwbl, nid yn unig oherwydd y cynnydd yn ein poblogaeth, ond oherwydd y newidiadau yn ein…
24 Ebrill 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl ar Gynnig Deddfwriaethol gan Aelod: Bil i wella diogeledd bwyd
Rwy'n croesawu diddordeb Janet, ond mae arnaf ofn fy mod yn mynd i bleidleisio yn ei erbyn.
