, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Local Government)
By decarbonisation, but—.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Local Government)
And what about the biodiversity and nature emergencies?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
There is a concern about the standard and getting it up to standard. Are you looking at changing the standard? And I’m not sure whether some of it could be interpretation as well by RSLs and concern about whether they can get up to the standard, so they might…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Is it a multi-year settlement, so that they know? Are you able to give that confidence to the sector?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Good. I'm just going to ask you some questions regarding the transitional accommodation capital programme grant. I know it's been really welcomed by local authorities to build up housing stock that they had transferred out previously. There doesn't seem to be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
[Inaudible.]—allocated for the development of brownfield sites? There was a part previously, I believe.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
That leads me on to TACP, then.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Just moving on to housing supply, Welsh Government has got the target of 20,000 new low-carbon social homes for rent. As of March 2024, there were 8,933 homes delivered against the target, and, given the additional capital for social house building in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
I'd just say that the Cabinet Secretary has made it clear, though, that there are ongoing discussions at the moment. We're not sure, I believe, what funding is going to come through or how much for public sector workers and how much there will be there that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Thank you for the clarification.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
I think it hadn't been put up for three or four years, and then, suddenly, it increased slightly. So, I guess there’s an awful lot of catching up to be done to bring it in line with what’s needed now.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
—going back to the previous Government as well, who didn't put it—. It wasn't put up every year.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
I just want to raise that it’s a historic issue, isn’t it—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
It used to be one in three and it's one in four now, isn't it?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Can you remind me of the ratio again here?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
So, just your views on that, really.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
So, providers and staff have to be inspected, make sure there's fresh food and follow a curriculum, the foundation phase curriculum. I remember at the time thinking, because they're not funded the same as core education, it was really tricky because of having…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
[Inaudible.]—childcare and playgroup provision changed over the years so that they had to follow several policy areas. I remember it being tricky at the time because they had to be up to certain standards, which is really important.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
[Inaudible.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
I remember the social services department phoning round desperately trying to find a space for somebody, and that was quite a few years ago, when I was a councillor. I know of the funding that local authorities have received to actually build care provision…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
The multi-agency action is something really important, where everybody takes their role. But it’s making sure it happens, and leading on it.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Very often we talk about growing the economy through business, and where are the jobs. But they’re out there in social work. And growing the economy through people as well. You made 20 recommendations in the rapid review of child protection in September 2023…
