, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
March next year. Not till March next year.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, thank you. Just one brief question from me, because we're about to start a disability and employment inquiry. What progress has been made on developing the disability rights action plan, which was due to be published in March? I wondered whether you're…
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. We'll go back to Jane Dodds.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. We need to move on. Sioned, you are next on my list.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Key for this committee is the passporting of benefits, so that if you’ve been assessed as eligible for one scheme, you automatically get the others that you are eligible for, because some local authorities are doing that already and others are simply ignoring…
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I think there's a couple of specific responses we want. I appreciate you can't just pull them out of a hat, so perhaps we could have a—. Did you want to come back, Carolyn, on—?
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Fair enough. Perhaps you'd like to reflect on it and come back to us.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I'm looking for a target. But anyway—
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
But how are you ensuring that people are getting the right information and are taking it up? Social housing is being sorted elsewhere. It's people in private accommodation who are living in the poorest homes, and, for me, getting more money into people's…
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Before we move on from the Warm Homes programme, it came in in April, but how many homes do you want to have benefited from the Warm Homes programme before winter hits in December? So, by the end of November, how many of these fuel-poor households are you…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Carolyn, too much detail.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Fine, we need to move on to things that are in your portfolio. Carolyn.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you. Sioned, you wanted to come back on something.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, good. Well, we'll go with that as well. Buffy, did you have any further questions in this section?
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
I wonder if I can just intervene, Buffy? Very specifically, I was with the Royal College of Midwives on Friday, and they were talking about the Solihull programme, Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond. It's a six to eight-week programme and the sort of thing that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Fine. Can I bring in Buffy Williams now, who's going to talk about health inequalities for children?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
We need to move on, but have you—.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. Well, I think that's part of the problem. Jane.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, this is an interesting discourse, but we need—
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you for the question.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay. Carolyn wanted to come in and then I'll come back to you, Sioned.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Sioned.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, very good. Jane Dodds.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Okay, we'll come back to some detail on that later. Sioned.
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General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Do you have a strategy for getting beyond the Elastoplast? Seven million pounds is obviously a significant sum of money, but how do we get beyond simply giving people cans of food at a foodbank and trying to get people to be more resilient?
