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Papers to note
Apologies. Just continuing the meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, and I just wanted to ask Members to note the letter from the Minister for Social Justice regarding an update on recommendation 7 of our report, 'Debt and the pandemic'.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
If—[Inaudible.]—meeting for any reason, I propose—[Inaudible.]—.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee, where we've got a full agenda throughout the day. First of all, I'd just like to welcome everybody to the meeting, which is a bilingual meeting, being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and there…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Strategy 2022-26
Thank you very much for calling me. We heard lots of excellent good practice amongst public bodies—a range of them—in really taking seriously the ways in which they needed to refer people who were survivors of violence as migrants with no recourse to public…
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Summer of Fun 2022
It's always very sobering when you go into schools in September and you hear the children who are asked what did they do over the summer holidays and they recount what they did on the school trip in the summer term, because it tells you that they didn't do…
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Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Evaluating and Improving Education and Learning in Wales
Well, I certainly defer to the expertise of Vikki Howells and agree with her that the value added by schools is the most important measure, because you could have a brilliant child starting school aged four or five, brilliant at maths—you want to ensure that…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Thank you very much indeed for your evidence. We've come to the end of our time. We'll obviously send you transcripts of what you have said. Please take the time to ensure that we've recorded what you wanted to say accurately. Thank you, otherwise, very much…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
[Inaudible.]—I hope. You may think it'll make you into better, more effective organisations. But, Shân, did you want to add to what your colleagues have said?
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
All right. Well, thank you for that. Helen, did you want to add something?
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
A number of public sector procurement professionals raised concerns about contract monitoring post procurement. Is that something that your organisations would worry about?
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Thank you for articulating that particular challenge. If the Bill becomes law, then, apart from that one that you've just identified, Geraint, what are the other key challenges that you envisage for implementing this Bill and how would you look to address…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
To sum up—
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Thank you for that. Ken Skates, you're going to follow up on this procurement aspect.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Very good. Shân, you wanted to come back in.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Very good. We'll need to move on now to the procurement aspects of this Bill, and Peredur Owen Griffiths is going to start us off.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Okay. It doesn't make you not as good, though, just because you're smaller.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Okay. Shân, just briefly, you wanted to come back in.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Okay, thanks very much. Sarah Murphy, do you want to take this further?
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Thank you. Back to you, Jane.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Jane, can I just come in here? I'm just struggling to understand how representation by one of the bodies that organise among your workforce—the FBU, for the sake of argument—. Supposing that one of them was on the partnership council, what impact is that…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Thank you. Can I bring in Jane Dodds now to talk about the social partnership council?
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Go ahead, Shân.
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 2
Welcome back to the final session of the Equality and Social Justice Committee’s inquiry this afternoon into the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill. We’re very pleased to welcome Geraint Thomas, the temporary assistant chief officer for…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 1
If there are no further questions, I think I'd like to thank you both for your very reflective and thoughtful responses to our questions. Clearly, this is uncharted territory to some extent, and so we need to ensure that this is a practical Bill that's going…
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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 1
Peredur wanted to ask—
