, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
We’ll certainly follow this up from what we were saying about the Wales Interpretation and Translation Service. I am aware of the fact that there’s been some research done into the health experiences of asylum seekers and refugees—the HEAR 2 study in Wales. I…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. That's a really important question for us. I've mentioned our communications campaign, Hate Hurts Wales, which is an anti-hate crime campaign, and we fund the Wales hate support centre. It's run by Victim Support Cymru, with free and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Jane Dodds.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
If I could also just say that this is all relevant to not only devolving justice, but our equality and human rights objectives, as well. So, this week, we'll be chairing a human rights advisory group. It's about how do we incorporate the UN convention on the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. A really important question in terms of all intersectionality and all the ways that we're bringing our action plans together at the moment. The root to this is the strategic equality plan. Obviously, the strategic equality plans are four-year…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. This is an area, again, that we need to constantly monitor, evaluate and review. You'll be aware of the Wales Interpretation and Translation Service. That was established in 2009 to meet the interpretation and translation needs of the whole…
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Obviously, we haven't excluded anyone from the plan, and people with lived experience have been involved in co-producing the plan. The grass-roots funding that we gave out to many organisations included elders, all generations. Obviously, the plan is open for…
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
We'll follow that up.
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
It's not certainly addressed particularly. But, as it's come out, I think this is something that we'd want to talk to our health colleagues about particularly, because, as far as sexual assault services are concerned—. Obviously we're talking about sexual…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Well, that's where we have to improve on the access to the data, and also when it's not devolved—. But in terms of sexual assault, that's a sort of crossing over the jagged edge, particularly. And I'm aware of that EHRC report on the latest 'Is Wales Fairer?'…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
It is.
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
But I'm going to answer the question about—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Well, I've touched on this really. Just picking up on the last point about the links to disproportionate violence against women and sexual abuse, this is another aspect of my work, which is about devolving justice to Wales, working very closely with the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Altaf. Of course, I mentioned the learning we had, the tragic, in a way, learning we had from the pandemic from the disproportionate experience of the impact of coronavirus on black, Asian and minority ethnic people. That has very much driven the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
It is crucial, isn't it, that we make sure that—. The implementation and measuring the progress and impact of the plan is key. Many of the questions that have come out of your inquiry quite rightly have been about how do we measure, what are the outcomes, and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
So, we will be very widely sharing the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan' annual report, but also there's quite a lot of webinars going on at the moment as well. I've mentioned the public sector leadership summit. We also have, of course, links to the wider…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Cascading.
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. I sort of started to mention that, Altaf, just now in terms of the plan and how it's going to be a really useful document. We already do have an anti-racist Wales stakeholder bulletin, and I'm just thinking back to Jane Dodds's question…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Yes, of course, and I was a few minutes late.
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Yes, good practice. That's really important through the Hwb platform of providing educational materials, which all schools can access to share that good practice. But I think, also, in terms of just sharing the good practice, I've mentioned two schools doing…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. Well, I think you're referring to the whole plan, or just in terms of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Yes, and, of course, what's really important is that there's a whole chapter in the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan' in terms of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people, and we have an expert on our team as well. I think what's really important about the Gypsy, Roma…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
[Inaudible.]—one comment that you're sharing with me, which is absolutely important, that we hear all of that feedback, and it's come to your committee. But, as I've said, I've worked so closely with the Welsh Local Government Association. I've met with all…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Amelia, a quick word—?
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Inquiry into the implementation of the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan': Ministerial evidence session
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you very much, Ken. I've already given quite a bit of information about the external accountability group, and then, alongside that, the internal support group as well. I don't think I've got much more to say about the external…
