9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Sioned.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Thank you. Questions now from Sioned Williams.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Okay. Ken.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Alistair, briefly.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Okay. Jane Dodds, I think you wanted to come in, briefly.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Albert wants to come in.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
No problem. And I'll just bring in Ken Skates now to talk about family courts.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
I'm going to bring Albert in, but, then, I am going to move straight on to Ken, because we're really tight on time.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Okay.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Alistair, you just mentioned about local authorities putting investment into this as well. We know these are really difficult times for local authorities. Do you see that as something—I've raised it with the Minister—about how, for local authorities, that's…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Thank you. A question from Sioned Williams.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Absolutely. I'll just bring Laura Jones in on this.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Thank you. So, we've had snapshot data from Swansea, which suggests that a third of care-experienced parents go on to have a child removed from their care. Does that figure, firstly, surprise you, and would you consider legislating to ensure care-experienced…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Okay, thank you, Deputy Minister, that's really helpful. We know that, in terms of risk factors, poverty, substance misuse, mental health and learning disabilities are all part of the complex picture of why children in Wales are going into care. However…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
We are meeting for item 6, which is our fourteenth evidence session on services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform. I'd like to welcome this morning Julie Morgan, Deputy Minister for Social Services; Albert Heaney, chief social care…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Welcome back.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 8 and 9 of this meeting and for the whole of the meetings on 14 March and 22 March
And now we'll go into item 4, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 8 and 9 of the meeting and for the whole of the meetings on 14 and 22 March. Is everybody happy to do that? Okay. So, we will now proceed…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
We would appreciate if you could send us that case study, and also we will perhaps put something in writing asking a particular question that we didn't get time to do so. So, diolch yn fawr iawn.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you for joining us. You will receive a transcript following this evidence session to check for accuracy. So, thank you once again for joining us.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
If we didn't have the Deputy Minister after you, we would have talked to you all day, so—.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. Thanks, James. And I very much just want to put on record my grateful thanks as well to you all for joining us, and we really appreciate you coming in, because we've gone way over time and I'm really thankful to you for answering all our questions…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. Thanks, Jan. And just to say, just for you to be aware, case loads are very much on our agenda. So, we might write to you about some things, because I'm very conscious of time and I just want to bring James just back in for a last question, because…
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Yes, absolutely.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Go on, Jan.
9 March 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. Jane Dodds wanted to come in.
