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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you very much. We look forward to receiving your examples of achievements that you've taken through the courts, or other ways in which you've really made progress. We're now going to take a five-minute break before we come back with our next session…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you very much indeed. Thank you for giving us such a broad impression of all the stuff you're doing, which is really useful. So, I think you're—. Sioned, do you have a question?
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
—there's something Julie Morgan wanted to ask.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you for that. I'm just wondering and—
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Mick Antoniw.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you. Jane Dodds.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Hang on a sec, Sioned. Jane Dodds wanted to come in.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Very good. Can I bring in Sioned Wiliams?
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Yes, briefly. If you could both be brief in your questions and answers.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Okay, thank you. Could I now call in Joel James?
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
If there are things that you could send us, a summary of the achievement, it would be very useful for everybody else to realise that this can be contested.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
No, it's absolutely fine—
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Okay, thank you. Jane Dodds.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Okay. Lastly from me: what's the TUC doing to support disabled people in closing the disability employment gap in Wales, which is particularly pronounced in some of our Valleys communities? I think Neath Port Talbot—
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you very much. One of the other things that was highlighted in your report was the need to have disability equality training based on the social model of disability, and I wondered if you could tell us what progress has been made in ensuring that…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Very good. So, it's good to know that you're running a second course, which obviously indicates there's an appetite for getting to grips with this issue. What progress would you say had been made by both the Welsh and the UK Governments on the asks from your…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
So, thank you very much for coming in. I wanted to start off by asking you about the campaign that the TUC launched in 2018 around disability and hidden impairments. Some of the issues that were raised in your report were ones that I thought were particularly…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Therefore, we'll go straight into evidence session 11 of our inquiry into disability and employment. I'm very pleased to welcome Rhianydd Williams, the equality and policy officer for the Wales Trades Union Congress.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We are a bilingual institution and simultaneous translation is available from Welsh. I've had no apologies for this session, although, unfortunately, Julie Morgan is unable to remain with us for the full…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon.
, Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
I think the issue was that, the people serving the poorest communities, there are fewer of them, serving people with much greater need.
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Debate on petition P-06-1400, 'Fair and Adequate Resourcing of General Practice in Wales'
I think this is a very welcome petition, because all health boards need to spend more money and energy and time on primary care. I just want to have a quick look at some of the social justice issues involved in this, because there are 389 practices in Wales…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
I absolutely agree with you, and I see the Cabinet Secretary nodding, and I'm sure that we'll be able to work together on that. It's very good to have the support of Mike Hedges in his capacity as Chair of the LJC and indeed Delyth Jewell of the culture…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
Thank you very much. It's good to know that Joel James, in his role as a councillor, was promoting the EUSS scheme, and that's something that all councillors and, indeed, Senedd Members and MPs should have been doing. We have to remind ourselves that not all…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
EU citizens who lived in Wales before Brexit were supposed to apply to stay here by the end of June 2021. As you'll recall, that was just as the sixth Senedd committees were being set up. The committee I chair has been monitoring the quarterly statistics…
