22 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you. The Bill means that the Welsh Government will fund local authorities for residential outdoor education. What mechanism do you expect them to use: add it to the block grant or do it on claims?
22 Chwefror 2024 , Finance Committee
Goblygiadau ariannol y Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Diolch, Gadeirydd. The cost of the Bill is showing at between £14 million and £20 million a year, which is a range better than an awful lot of Government Bills that have come before us in the past. The Welsh Government says that this is not affordable and…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod
Content.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Yes, as gentle as this. [Laughter.]
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Okay, thank you very much.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Thank you. Are you certain—? Perhaps that's a bit too strong a word. Are you confident—that might be a better word—that agencies clearly indicate their fees on invoices, as stipulated under the agency framework?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
I'll start off with an ideological view. I don't believe that supply teachers should be employed via agencies, I think they should be employed directly via the local authorities, either in a consortium or individually, but that's a political view, so I don't…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Moving on to agency fees, what's the Welsh Government's understanding of agencies' justification of their fees and whether it is comfortable with such a wide variation in fees?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Yes. I don't think we can take this much further, but I think that further information on this, on numbers, might be helpful. As my friend Natasha Asghar said, we're known as 'the spreadsheet committee', so, if you can provide additional numbers, it would be…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
And on this section, whether the Government has updated figures for 2022-23, showing the spend and number of cover days worked through the agency framework by job role. I don't expect you to answer that in full, but, if you have got that information, can you…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Diolch, Cadeirydd. How concerned is the Welsh Government about the risk of schools employing unqualified staff for cover, both short term and long term, rather than employing teachers, in the context of budget pressures?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
Well, let's say that the supply rate is £150 a day. Let us say that they go to an agency, which takes £20 off it. If the school employs them directly, the teacher gets the £150, rather than getting £130 and the agency getting £20.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
But if they directly employ a supply teacher, it's not going to cost them any more than paying an agency, it's just that the teacher gets more.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru: Cyflenwi ar gyfer Absenoldeb Athrawon
But, surely, one of the ways they come off the framework is by direct employment, and they directly employ teachers they know, which means the teacher gets all the money, rather than some of it going to the agency. Isn't that better, rather than worse?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Can I just agree with Natasha? The one thing we do know is that it has to be in the accounts somewhere in terms of income. The other question is this: we were told by officials that it didn't matter because we could get paid market value for it, and we would…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
I'd like to do it before the report is drafted. I heard what Adam said—I was using my knowledge of Welsh, and I think I got most of it. But it's just unbelievable that they don't collect this information. So, we need to see the forms, because our…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Yes, and we can ask for the application form.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
So, you have that as a problem. And where people live, I think there's a feeling—one I get—is that there are certain areas of relatively affluent parts of Wales where people are much more likely to get appointed, and I think that we would like to have a true…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Yn y gogledd, yng Nghaernarfon, mae pawb yn siarad Cymraeg.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Can we have a copy of the application form sent to us? Let's go back to first principles. I've spent a large part, and not necessarily pleasant, of Monday and Sunday going through deputy headteacher applications. On the form: 'Do you speak Welsh—yes or no?'…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datgan buddiannau
I'll share I'm a school governor, but I don't think that's registrable.
7 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Fer: Mynediad cyflymach at wasanaethau clyw yng Nghymru
Diolch, Janet, am roi munud i mi yn y ddadl hon. Rwy'n llywydd Grŵp Trwm eu Clyw Abertawe. Mae clyw pobl yn dirywio gydag oedran. Gyda cholli clyw sy'n gysylltiedig ag oedran, a elwir hefyd yn presbycwsis—gobeithio imi ddweud hynny'n iawn—mae'r clyw'n…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Cyflenwad tai
Nid yw Llywodraeth Cymru wedi adeiladu unrhyw dai. Datblygwyr preifat, mawr a bach, unigolion, cynghorau a chymdeithasau tai sydd wedi adeiladu tai. Mae’r mathau canlynol o ddeiliadaeth i'w cael: perchen-feddiannaeth, prynu drwy forgais, rhentu’n breifat, tai…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiadau 90 Eiliad
Y pumed o Chwefror oedd Diwrnod Ymchwil Canser y Byd. Hoffwn ddefnyddio'r datganiad hwn i dynnu sylw at lewcemia, canser gwaed dinistriol sy'n hawlio 250 o fywydau y flwyddyn yng Nghymru. Dangosodd data diweddaraf Arsyllfa Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru mai Bwrdd…
7 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau Amserol
Diolch. Mae croeso mawr i'r arian, ond ni fydd yn mynd yn agos at ateb y costau ychwanegol mewn adrannau gwasanaethau cymdeithasol ledled Cymru. Nid wyf yn credu, yn Lloegr, y bydd yn atal hysbysiadau adran 114 ychwanegol, sef y term technegol am awdurdodau…
