, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
From the information we have, the disability employment gap is consistently higher in Wales than across the UK, particularly for people with a learning disability. Could you give us a brief insight as to why you think it might be higher in Wales than…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're continuing our inquiry into disability and employment. In the committee room, we've got Gerraint Jones-Griffiths, who is the Engage to Change lead ambassador for Learning Disability Wales and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Thank you for that, for putting that on the record. Thank you very much for your appearance, and we'll obviously send you a transcript. Please do change it if we've got something wrong. We'll now take a short break before the next session, which will be…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay, but not on specific issues around a person who comes to you who's been discriminated against at work.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
So, you don't work with them—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay. If you could just briefly write to us with where your funding comes from, because obviously it's an important point that, if you're turning down employers who need help because you haven't got enough money, that's an issue. You say there's…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
But you're trying to scrutinise Government, so if you get your money from Government you have a problem. How much of your resources comes from outside Government?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
A couple of quick questions from me. You said earlier that you lack the capacity to respond to employers, that you need more resources. How much of your resources comes from Government and how much from other sources?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay. Jane Dodds.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay. I'm looking at the clock, and we've still got one more section to go into. Mick, are you content at the moment with that?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
So, the paper we've got from Learning Disability Wales with the National Centre for Mental Health at Cardiff University, that doesn't fit in with your criteria.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay, thank you. Can I bring back Mick Antoniw, please?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Yes, apprenticeships.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Two. Okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Thank you. Moving swiftly on, onto this very subject, Joel James.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay. You can come back to that, Mick, when I come back to you later on. Julie Morgan.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Rhian.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Can I just bring in Mick Antoniw, who's been trying to come in for a little while, before I go to Julie Morgan?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay. Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Thank you. Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
We will look forward to that, hopefully in the not-too-distant future. Lastly from me, before I hand over to one of the other Members, some of the evidence that we have received highlights that people with certain conditions—neurodivergence with a learning…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Yes, we have got the list.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
The reason that I am pursuing this is because we are in the last chance saloon here in terms of the action that needs to be taken before the end of this Parliament. I was trying to understand the reasons for the delay in lodging the report that is now under…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
So, the disability and employment group: what were its terms of reference, then?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 6
That's a different one. Okay.
