, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Sue, any additional comments?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you very much, Chair. I think in your responses to previous questions, you’ve covered my first question which was about the delivery at a local, national and school level, so I think we’ve covered that. But just to look at the implementation of the Bill…
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Topical Questions
I've dealt with a myriad of issues in my constituency relating to issues of flooding and sewage discharges for which Welsh Water were responsible. Of course, I share the dismay with continued pollution leaks and sewage discharges, and I think financial or…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Fly-tipping is a consistent problem in Denbighshire, but has skyrocketed since Denbighshire County Council's total breakdown in waste collection earlier this year, following their bungled roll-out of the Trolibocs recycling system. Residents across the Vale…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
4. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the impact of fly-tipping in Vale of Clwyd? OQ61652
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Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Mental Health and Well-being
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. In my remarks responding to the Minister's statement, I made a simple oversight in saying that we hadn't received a statement since Mark Drakeford was First Minister. I'm pleased you've corrected me in your response to say that we…
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Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Mental Health and Well-being
Thank you very much for your statement this afternoon, Minister. Firstly, I'd like to say that I'm pleased to be responding to this statement today, and it's a pleasure to be speaking as a newly established ambassador of Bipolar UK. It has been an honour to…
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Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to request a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for finance regarding the planned protests against the cuts to business rates relief next Wednesday in Prestatyn. I met with Prestatyn business forum in August, and to say that the morale was low…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Ophthalmology services
It’s a pleasure to take part in this debate tonight, on a subject of great importance, which constituents raise with increasing regularity. Firstly, I’d like to make it clear that my constituents have received excellent ophthalmology treatment, and I have…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
Thanks very much. In my speech, I was talking about the disparity across the UK nations. Do you think that it's acceptable that England have had a women's health plan since 2022, and yet in Wales we're still waiting? And we've got now, with your remarks, a…
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Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Women's healthcare
Firstly, I'd like to thank Delyth Jewell for bringing this debate forward today, and I'm grateful to be able to contribute to it and support it also as well. Despite women and girls making up more than half of the Welsh population, women's health and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
I think that's been the consensus in that regard. I was just checking with you, as a body, as to whether you had any different thoughts on that. But over the sessions that we've had, I think that's certainly a consensus that we've been able to gauge as a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
I've asked previous panellists over two sessions now about the difference between the terminology in the existing WESPs and the Welsh education implementation plans—the WEIPs—that were initially proposed in the White Paper. Is there any difference in that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Diolch. Are there any other areas of services for children and young people that you believe should be added to the scope of the national framework for Welsh language and education and local authorities—the WESPs, basically—and if so, which services would…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Would you be seeking something additional in the Bill to achieve that, then, as a governing body over schools as something from the Welsh Government to give you the powers to assess the progress of Welsh language provision in those schools, or is it…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thanks very much. What would Estyn’s role be in that, then, in terms of the accountability at a national, local and school level? Where would Estyn play a role within that system?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Mererid, any additional comments to that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good afternoon and thanks for joining us today. I want to focus on Part 4 of the Bill, if I may, today. I’ll just start by asking this. The Welsh Government wants to establish a clear line of accountability at a national, local and school…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Any additional—?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
And that's ultimately the question. Are we perhaps just overthinking it, and it's just a change in terminology, or is it something more meaningful than just a terminology issue? That's all we're trying to establish, really.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
So, obviously, as we know, the WESPs are something that's established, but, in the original White Paper published by the Welsh Government, they were advertised as WEIPs—Welsh in education strategic plans. I'm just trying to establish whether the difference in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Yes, I think that's important. Just finally, if I may, Chair, when we took evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, he told me—or told us, as a committee, I should say—that local authorities had asked for the name and the concept of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Yes. Any more comments?
