, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
And is there enough capacity in the family courts, such as with specialist judges?
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Thank you, James. Just to clarify something, you've just referred to Welsh Government funding for the pilots and hoping that it could be rolled out. Can you just clarify what else you think needs to happen for this to roll out across Wales? And, do you think…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Great, thank you. Questions now from James Evans.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Jane Dodds.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
We're now moving on to item 4, which is services for care-experienced children and exploring radical reform, and our eighth evidence session. We've got our witnesses here who've joined us. Thank you for coming in this morning. We have Vikki Morris, deputy…
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Welcome back.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
You will receive a transcript just to check for accuracy as well. Diolch. We'll move on to the next item on the agenda. We're going to into private for a few minutes, just to bring in the next witnesses. So, we'll move into private.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Diolch yn fawr, both.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Brilliant. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for both your time this morning and your insight and expertise on this. We really do appreciate it, and, as I said, we will be in touch if there's anything further that we can raise with you, and, likewise, if…
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
That's very kind of you. Thank you for that offer, and I'm sure we'll take you up on that.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Absolutely.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you, Ken. And just for information as well, we will be hearing from heads of children's services in Wales on 9 March, and we have already written to them as well. So, hopefully we'll get that information from them. So, thank you for that as well…
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. Okay, thank you, Sioned. Questions now from Ken Skates.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. Questions now from Sioned Williams.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you, that's really helpful. We'll go back to James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Yes, thank you; diolch. I'm just going to bring Jane Dodds in very briefly.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Sorry, Sir Nicholas, did you want to add anything?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. That's really helpful. Thank you, Laura. We've got a couple of questions now from James Evans.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Okay. Welcome back to Members. We will move on to the next item on our agenda, which is item 3, which is on services for care experienced children and exploring radical reform, and this is our seventh evidence session. And, we're very pleased to have our…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
We'll now take a very short break just to change the witnesses over.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you very much for joining us. I know we've had to finish very promptly, but we really appreciate your evidence here this morning. Thank you for coming, and I'm sure that you'll be following our work closely as well. You will be sent a transcript to…
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
One, and a very short answer as well.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you. I know I did say 'finally', but I think we've got a quick question from James before we do finish. But I'll just say thank you for sharing those voices; I think it's incredibly powerful. Very appreciative. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
We'll just move, finally, to some questions from Laura Jones. Laura.
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Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Okay. Okay, Ken?