, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. 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, we have heard that up to 75 per cent of cases can involve domestic violence. What more…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. A critique from the British Association of Social Workers of the recent MacAlister independent review in England was that it comes across as simplistic and highly negative. The association says child abuse and neglect are hidden and hard to prove…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
We'll certainly come on to questions around workforce later as well, so there'll be points on that. But before we go on to that, perhaps you can explain why workforce instability means higher rates in care.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Jan.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Okay, thank you. And we're also interested in any views you can share with us about the huge variation in the numbers and rates of children going into care in different local authorities across Wales, even when rates of deprivation are accounted for. Would…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Does anybody want to add anything, or are you happy with that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
So, I'll move on to our main item on the agenda today, which is services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform; it's our thirteenth evidence session. I'd like to welcome the witnesses here this morning. We have Jan Coles, head of children…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da and welcome to this meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv. A record of proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptations…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to the meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee today.
, Plenary
Topical Questions
This news has been absolutely heartbreaking, and my deepest and sincere condolences go to the family and friends of Eve, Darcy and Rafel during this utterly awful time, and my thoughts go out to Sophie and Shane, who are in that critical condition, for their…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
Diolch.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
Yes. We haven't done our report yet, so this is all the evidence. So, it might come up in our report in a way that it could be part of that report. But, if there was a further, in-depth investigation, then it's unlikely that the children and young people…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I think it's important for us, as chairs, I think, to make sure that we're communicating, and this is some of the work that we've done on the Children, Youth People and Education Committee where it has been touched on in some of the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
That's really helpful. Thank you. You've also touched on inequality and how this would help reduce inequality. What groups in particular would you anticipate it would benefit the most?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Thank you for your contribution this morning, and I think I was particularly struck by the point that you make that if you're going to do this, you have to commit to it fully. You've touched on a number of countries this morning, but is…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Just on the point about the implementation or incorporating the right to adequate housing into law, what do you think the way—? Is there any other way of putting this into law? Have you looked at any other options, rather than the way that you've suggested…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
I think that's interesting, around progressive realisation, because, obviously, now people like you are talking about people who are struggling through the night, feeling that this is something—the right to adequate housing—that feels quite distant from some…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Diolch, Cadeirydd. You touched on the importance of supply, really. Perhaps you could say how important the role of supply is—you know, how many houses we have—and perhaps think about those countries that you've touched on, whether it's Finland, Canada or…
, 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 item 1 on 9 March
Now we go on to the next item, which is to meet in private. I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of this meeting and for item 1 at the meeting on 9 March. Are Members content? I…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
We now move on to the next item on our agenda, which is our papers to note. The papers are set out in the agenda and in the paper pack. There's a large volume of papers, as there often is—there are seven papers to note. Are Members content to note those…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Brilliant. Thank you, and thank you so much for joining us today and providing the evidence. It's really useful to us, so diolch yn fawr. We really appreciate you coming in to support our inquiry. You will be sent a transcript within the coming weeks to check…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Thank you, Hannah. Lena.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Jacqui, is there anything you'd like to add? No. Hannah.
