11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you very much. Obviously, children living in poverty is a matter of huge concern to the Government and, as you know, the child poverty strategy will be published later on this month, and we did have a lot of discussion yesterday in the Chamber as well…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes. In our first phase, we exceeded our targets enormously, and it looks as if the second phase is going very well as well. So, it would be wonderful to extend provision from nine months upwards, but we'll see how that turns out in England. But, basically…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, the Flying Start provision is for any child. It isn't limited to working parents; it's for all children who need it. That's for the Flying Start element—the two-year-olds. So, as I say, as far as our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru, we are…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, obviously, with any money that comes from the central Government as a Barnett consequential, or in any way, it is up to the Welsh Government to decide how it spends that money. And we have had a different approach to providing childcare than the…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Two of those funding streams are recurrent, and they are being placed in the overall grant scheme in order to make things more rational.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
This is part of our commitment to local government to try to reduce the administrative burden, so that's why we are amalgamating some grants. So, two streams of funding will be added to the budget from 2024-25 on a recurrent basis, and that's the Playworks…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Just to repeat how challenging the budget discussions and decisions have been, and it's been necessary to make some very difficult decisions, I've protected the children and communities grant as much as I've been able to, as much as possible, and though it's…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
It has been allocated individually to the local authorities, but the policy stream that we have set up underneath the board for eliminating profit, which is led by Albert Heaney, in fact is developing regional provision, and, in fact, we've already developed…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, first of all, I think it's really important to say that both the WLGA and the ADSS are in support of this policy, that they have come out publicly saying that this is, they think, the right thing to do, so we do have their support. In relation to…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I have those 89 as an increase in workforce staffing within children's services.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, as you note, the grant scheme has been protected and is continuing for this coming financial year. It was three years initially and now it's become five years because of the COVID two years. And, of course, grant schemes are not indefinite. They are…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you very much, Ken, for that question. We are very aware of the significant challenges in recruitment and retention for social care workers and we are working very closely with the local authorities to try to support positive change. And, obviously…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
There is a commitment across Government to preventative spending, and I think that is illustrated by the nature of, for example, the ministerial oversight board for the transformation of children's services. Because the First Minister co-chairs that with me…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
The impact assessment that we do does, obviously, look at the needs of children, but it is an impact assessment that looks holistically at all the different cross-cutting needs that there are for children.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I can confirm that those services that I referred to are protected for the next financial year, yes.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
For the children's sector? Yes. Right, well, I'll answer that. Again, as I've said, we had to face difficult decisions in terms of prioritising the front-line services, and we chose not to impose any cuts on our third sector grants, but decided to protect our…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
We work very closely with them, and, obviously, with the overall transformation programme, that is done jointly with the local authorities.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I think local authorities will have to make difficult decisions about this, about spending overall, in the way that we've had to make difficult decisions in the Welsh Government, but I know that social services are a priority for councils. Obviously…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you. I'll answer that. Well, certainly, the funding that we're giving to local government is increasing by 3.1 per cent. So, I think that's very important—that in these really, really difficult times, we've managed to maintain and increase what the…
10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol
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10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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