, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thanks for that answer. In his evidence to the CYPE committee last week, the Minister, Mark Drakeford, mentioned that there would be some flexibility, potentially, within that, particularly in regard to schools that may have more challenges in the delivery of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, everybody, and good morning, Efa. I just want to focus on Part 4 of the Bill, if I may. The Welsh Government wants to establish a clear line of accountability at a national, local and school level for the planning of…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Will you take an intervention, Carolyn? You list many of the complexities there about local authorities trying to navigate some of the guidance, and obviously there's a disparity between local authorities, and obviously resources is an issue that you've…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
I wouldn’t have those figures at hand, but maybe if you liaise with your local health board, Mike, down in Swansea then they might be able to enlighten you with some more figures around that, but I don't have them on me, unfortunately, so I wouldn't be giving…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
Yes, please.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: 20mph speed limits
I’m pleased to be taking part in this debate this afternoon. It’s now over a year since the 20 mph was introduced in September last year. Perhaps we should take a moment to reflect and recollect the events of the past year since the law was introduced, and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
The issue surrounding recruitment and retention is very much a non-political matter, and as a former employee of Betsi Cadwaladr, the line of 'Train. Work. Live.' in north Wales is nothing new in that regard, because it was always something that was spoken…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Something that is devolved to Wales is transport matters. I'd like a statement, please, from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales regarding overcrowding on Transport for Wales rail services in north Wales, and recent failures in planning for…
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Questions to the First Minister
The Age Cymru report published in August shows that, while 12-month social care delays have been slowly coming down, we still have one in six waiting more than 30 days for a social care package to be implemented, unfortunately. Delays in social care are still…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
And just finally, if I may, just to cover workforce, there have obviously been issues in recruiting Welsh-medium teachers, particularly in secondary schools. So, I'm wondering, obviously, what plans there will be within the Bill to skill up Welsh-medium…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Yes, I suppose if it's done in an understandable way that everybody can be on board with, the terminology is probably quite small in that regard. The White Paper included a proposal for Estyn to undertake a rapid review of a local authority's WESP and to make…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
And why does the Bill retain the term 'Welsh in education strategic plan'? Does that reflect the change in direction that this Bill is trying to achieve? Why is it not called, you know, a 'Welsh education implementation plan'?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Diolch yn fawr, Gadeirydd. I can hear myself talking—I'll take those off. That's not a good thing, is it? [Laughter.] There have been suggestions during previous scrutiny and reviews that the Welsh Government doesn't have the necessary power and control over…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
No, no, it's fine. I'm drawing to a close, but just to ask quickly about the statistic that 315 care leavers were classed as homeless, according to Welsh Government data. So, obviously, a lot of my questioning has been about discussions with various Cabinet…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
I'd hope so. [Laughter.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
How would you measure that, then? At what point would you—? And what metrics would you use to measure that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
And obviously you've mentioned in the response that there’s very much a cross-Government approach to it, which is great, but what discussions have you had with the Cabinet Secretary for health and the Cabinet Secretary for Education in that regard—with the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thanks. I want to cover multi-agency information sharing, if I may. You mentioned in your response to the first question, Minister, about parity of esteem. So, in terms of making sure at-risk children don't slip through the net, what can be done better to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thanks for that comprehensive response—sorry, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you very much, Chair. I want to talk about the capacity of the social services workforce, including issues such as high case loads, staff turnover et cetera. What progress has the Welsh Government made in this regard and for developing a cohort of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
As a self-confessed fan of Emmerdale, I was pleased to see that this was recently highlighted in the soap in terms of highlighting the story of Belle Dingle and her partner Tom; Belle was unfortunately the victim of coercive behaviour. So, I’m glad that that…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
My thoughts go out to the workers of Kimberly-Clark in Flint as well, as, obviously, you know that my constituency doesn't lie too far from the Flint area and, no doubt, this will have an impact on people locally in the Vale of Clwyd as well in more ways than…
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Statement by the First Minister: Government priorities
I would like to welcome you to the role of First Minister, and I'm pleased to hear that you intend it to be a listening Government. I just wish that your predecessors had had the same outlook in that regard. We've seen, time after time, Government priorities…
