, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you. I think Laura wanted to come in there, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair, and thank you for joining us this morning. The code of practice for looked-after and accommodated children says that local authorities must place an early emphasis on financial literacy and financial capability skills. To what extent is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Thank you. Research from the Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre at Cardiff University showed that vulnerability to child criminal exploitation is increased when young people live independently as it heightens risk factors for exploitation…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Thank you. I think you've answered a little bit of my next question, just now and previously, but I'll still ask it anyway. Again, the Public Health Wales report also said that there are untenable differences between authorities when it comes to their…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, all, for joining us this morning. A recent report from Public Health Wales found that leaving care is considered a 'predictable route into homelessness', with around a quarter of homeless young people being care experienced…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Many of the care-experienced children we have met have told us they don't feel listened to and that decisions are made to them rather than with them. Do you have any views on the extent that care-experienced children are given a genuine voice in the big…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. Have you got any other comments about social work training and the opportunities for continuous professional development?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. Thinking about the age again of the social work students, do you think that life experience comes into this? Do you think that they—? How can I say this? I know you've just touched on it, but do you think the younger they are, the less likely they…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Do you have any information about the age profile of students?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you, Chair, and thank you for joining us this morning. Turning to social work training, we've heard concerns from front-line practitioners that social work students being accepted onto courses are becoming younger, meaning that, maybe, inexperienced…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to thank the petitioner for this petition again, and, in light of new UK legislation to prosecute irresponsible and dangerous watercraft use, I wonder if the committee could write to Welsh Government to see whether they plan to…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1307 The Welsh Government should commit to the adoption of the maintenance of new housing estates by local authorities
Thank you.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1307 The Welsh Government should commit to the adoption of the maintenance of new housing estates by local authorities
Thank you, Chair. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I think you've touched on my question quite a few times over the last 20 minutes, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Is the petitioner's suggestion that local authorities should adopt all communal areas…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
The rising cost of living has led to a record number of pets being abandoned. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimate that a pet is cast aside every 15 minutes in the UK. Dogs Trust have reported a record number of calls from…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
6. Will the Minister outline what impact the rising cost of living has had on animal welfare? OQ59111
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, Minister. Nurses in Rhondda are contacting me almost daily at the end of their tether. Demand over the winter months for ambulances and accident and emergency has been nothing like they've experienced before. They know that, in order to get sick…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
9. What impact has the pathways of care reporting framework had in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board area? OQ59150
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Thank you. The big question now: what is the main thing you would change to improve the system for care-experienced children in Wales?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Thank you, Chair, and thank you for joining us this morning. Without attaching criticism to individual local authorities or social workers, do you have any comment on the huge variation in the rates of children in care between Welsh local authorities, even…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. Is there any other information you would like to share with us relevant to this inquiry into services for care-experienced children in Wales?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, both, for joining us. Sir Andrew, you have very recently made a judgment in which you refer to the ‘very substantial deficit that exists nationally in the provision of facilities for the secure accommodation of children’ and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you. To what extent would you say that the odds are stacked against some of those parents during the pre-proceedings stage, when social services have set out initial concerns about a child—for example, that there are significant barriers to them getting…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, all, for joining us this morning. Can you tell us about the main challenges facing parents at risk of having their children removed, and what more can the system do to mitigate these risk factors that lead to children being…
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to echo your sentiment there that Tassia definitely is an inspiration, and I think she touched us all when we met her after the debate at the Senedd. I know she definitely touched me with all her hard work in campaigning to raise…
