, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Thank you very much. Sioned Williams, would you like to ask your questions?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Okay, I think lots of questions there. Shall we ask—?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Thank you. Sarah Murphy.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Okay. So, this is going to involve all the agencies who are involved in the criminal justice system in Wales, regardless of who their employer is?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Okay. One last question, Altaf, and then I'm going to come to Sarah.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Sarah.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Thank you for that. Altaf, back to you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Jane Dodds.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Can I bring in Altaf Hussain, because I know he's got some specific questions on prevention? We'll come back to residential centres. Altaf Hussain.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Okay. That's very useful. Just finally from me, there's obviously increasing pressure for magistrates to send people to prison for longer. That's not, obviously, your responsibility, but it does rather go against everything that you're trying to achieve with…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
We can see how many people have been referred, but we don't know how many people have not been referred and are going straight to prison.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
Very good. We're having difficulty, though, actually being able to see what impact all these different initiatives are having. The Cordis Bright evaluation isn't available at the moment. How do we know that the blueprint is working, particularly around these…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Women's experiences in the criminal justice system—evidence session 4
We'll move straight into our fourth session, then, on women's experiences in the criminal justice system. I very much welcome Jane Hutt, the Minister for Social Justice, and Karin Phillips and James Searle, from the Minister's office, on this issue. Thank you…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da. Welcome to the meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, which is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv. We are a bilingual committee, so instant translation is available from Welsh to English. First of all, I'd just like to offer…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny sessions—the co-operation agreement
I wanted to—. No, I'll pass.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
Okay. Basically, I just wanted to look at the rights of the child to an education. A recent inquiry that the Equality and Social Justice Committee has done is on the numbers of people with communication and speech and language difficulties who are involved in…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
I absolutely agree with you, we need to get some clarity on this, because Lord Bellamy, when he was talking to the legislation and justice committee—the committee chaired by Huw Irranca-Davies—on Monday, he was talking about the Visiting Mum project as if…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
Okay. Thank you.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
The committee I chair works very closely with the IMA and, in fact, I'm hosting an event in the Senedd in the first week back after Christmas. So, just one final thing on this, which is that many families took the decision back in February or March last year…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
Okay. Thank you. In light of the time, I just want to move on briefly to talk about European citizens' rights, and particularly to focus on the 38,000 Europeans living in Wales who've only got pre-settled status and they need to make a second application if…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
I just want to move to a slightly different focus, which is on the quality of equality impact assessments. Earlier this year, the Equality and Social Justice Committee did an inquiry into the childcare policy, and there was a concern that no equality impact…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
But—. Yes, it's more all the other rights that you've described. I'll pass it over to another Member.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
What impact do you think it will have on human rights if the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill goes ahead and all EU law automatically expires at the end of next year?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
Well, that's very useful to know. I just wondered what your assessment is of the impact of this suggested Bill on UK-EU relations, given that we've got the Home Secretary openly saying that she wants to withdraw from the European convention on human rights…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Equality and human rights
Okay. Two brief supplementaries on that. One is: any indication from Lord Bellamy, or anybody else, that, were they to actually produce what they're going to put before Parliament, there might be due consideration given to any amendments from either devolved…
