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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel two
Yes, that's fine. I think everybody's—.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel two
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee's meeting, which is a bilingual meeting, and simultaneous translation is available for anybody who's not speaking Welsh. We're going to take the second panel of our short inquiry into young people in…
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Papers to note
Okay. We can pick it up later if needed. The committee will now take a break until 3 o'clock, when we'll have our second panel with the police and the youth justice service. For those who may be watching this from home, please do join us again at 3 o'clock…
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Papers to note
There are six papers to note. Are Members content to—? Thank you very much. So, we'll note all those papers, and we'll come back to them later if we need to. Jane Dodds.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay. So, not something that you're able to add anything on at the moment. Thank you. Well, thank you all very much indeed for your evidence—really interesting. You've all given a lot of information for us to think about. You will be sent a transcript of what…
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Finally from me, we've heard lots of good examples of good practice from all of you in your individual work; I just wondered what the role of the children's commissioner was, because she's not been mentioned at all, particularly with those young people with…
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay, very good. Jane, over to you, if you want to pick up any other issues to do with this.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Jane, do you want to come in now? Jane Dodds.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay. Dave, do you want to go first, then?
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Shall we start with Pippa and then we'll come to Adam or Dave?
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Thank you. Can I bring Altaf Hussain in now, please?
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Could I just ask what the relationship is with solicitors? Because they must become aware that there are communication issues when they're talking to their client before they appear before the Youth Justice Board. Are they proactively saying, 'I think there…
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Kim.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay. If we can now move on to the advocacy services that exist for young people who are struggling with these issues. Sarah Murphy.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Pippa, do you want to start off?
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Given that it's between 60 and 90 per cent of all the people we're talking about, I can't understand, myself, how it is that people don't know about this, if they're working in this field. Ken, back to you.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Kim Jenkins, you wanted to add something—.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay. Jane Dodds, I think you wanted to come in at this point.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Thanks. Back to you, Ken.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Ken, before you go on, I think Pippa Cotterill wanted to come in on this point.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Dave.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Yes, Dave, please do.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Who'd like to go first?
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Thank you. Just to say to all witnesses, but particularly those who are online, if you wish to add to something that another speaker has said, please just raise your hand and I'll call you in. If we could now move on to Ken Skates.
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Experiences of young people with speech, language and communication needs in the criminal justice system—panel one
Okay. Pippa Cotterill.
