25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Chair. And just following on again, you suggested that the Welsh Government explores the potential for a child payment in the longer term. Can you just perhaps outline the benefits that it would have, and the financial and practical…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2
Thank you. Just following on from that, I'm just looking at the Bevan Foundation's written evidence, which highlighted that the policies to reduce childhood poverty through increasing household income through work and more generous benefits and initiatives to…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. My question, really, just follows on, because you've just given the example of perhaps one thing the Welsh Government could learn from Scotland in terms of best practice: does anybody else want to mention any other countries, or places…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. In terms of tackling child poverty, to what extent does the approach set out by the Welsh Government strategy align with international best practice?
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1
Brilliant. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1
Thank you. Has Ally got any experience from some of the countries that you've mentioned? You've given some good examples earlier on.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1
Thank you. Thank you very much for that. Just following up on that, then. How do you think national—? And some of the countries that you've mentioned around where national Governments are held accountable for reducing child poverty, is that effective, how is…
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1
Mari.
25 September 2023 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, everybody, for this session, because I think it's really, really helpful. You've given us a lot already. You've talked a lot in your contributions around targets already and how important you do see targets, I think. Is there…
20 September 2023 , Plenary
90-second Statements
Last week, Kaleidoscope celebrated 20 years of operating in Wales. Their ethos is to offer effective and innovative treatments for substance misuse. I'm so proud to have such a compassionate and pioneering organisation based in my constituency. They really do…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the whole of the meeting on 27 September
We'll move on to the next item, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the whole meeting on 27 September. I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
We'll move on to the next item on our agenda, which is papers to note. Obviously, it's been summer recess, so we have a number of papers to note—that's 32. They are all set out in the agenda and in the paper pack. Is everybody happy to take those together? I…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Diolch yn fawr. Thanks for your time. Thank you to your officials as well for joining us.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
I just wanted to sort of highlight that our report was based on lots of statistics that we took, lots of evidence from academics, professionals, stakeholders, people in the workforce, on the ground, those professionals, but most importantly those children and…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Brilliant, absolutely, and that is something the committee all has a strong interest in, so any information that does come, please continue to share with us. That would be really helpful. And we will, obviously, share our information that we have, likewise…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Yes, go for it.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
No, I wanted to keep—.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Do you want to carry on?
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
No, no—thank you. We've got a keen interest in this. Questions now from Heledd Fychan.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Okay, that would be really helpful, thank you.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Yes.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Okay, thank you, Buffy. Just going back a bit to parental advocacy, do you know when are we likely to have a decision about the long-term funding of parental advocacy?
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Thank you. We'll move on now to questions from Buffy Williams.
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Sorry, James. I was just going to say that we see this as being a very important issue as well and there is a conflict in what young people's experiences are at the moment. We heard directly from those young people and, obviously, in our recommendation, we…
14 September 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - Ministerial scrutiny session
Together. James.
