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Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
Last sentence. We also call on the Welsh Government to work with the children's commissioner to implement the WAVE Trust's campaign to reduce child abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences by 2030, because those efforts will undoubtedly help to…
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Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and can I begin by moving the amendment tabled in the name of Darren Millar and by thanking the children's commissioner for her annual report and for the effort of all those in producing it? I would like to focus my contribution on…
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Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. As you may already know, as many Members in this Chamber know, I'm the Senedd species champion for seagrass, and I was delighted to have read the national seagrass action plan earlier in the year, which was published by Seagrass…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's efforts to restore marine habitats? OQ61723
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
I've finished my questions.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Oh, sorry.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
No, it's okay. That was my final question, Chair.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
With that in mind, then, with the targeted employability support scheme, the TESS, where does that come in and you come in, if that makes sense? Where does that differ from what you're proposing, if that makes sense?
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Perfect, brilliant. Well, with that in mind, then, because you mentioned there work-experience placements and the need to have support via specialist job coaching, has there been much discussion with the Welsh Government about that? Have they sounded things…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Perfect. Brilliant. And that's absolutely fascinating. I often find how weird or how life can move sometimes quite quickly as well, really, from when you're in one place, and then, all of a sudden, it's like a whirlwind, and, all of a sudden, you're somewhere…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Thanks ever so much for coming in this afternoon. I hope you don’t mind, my questions are mainly aimed at you, Gerraint, if that’s okay, about the Engage to Change project. I just want to get a bit more information about that. What were the objectives of it…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Sorry about that, I thought I had time for a swift sip then. [Laughter.]
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Yes. So, one of the things that we're getting fed back is that there's a lack of apprenticeship opportunities. There's a lack of awareness of the ones that are there, both with the apprentice, but then also with the employer, really.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Again, some of the consultation responses we've been getting, especially from disabled people, they’ve basically said, 'There are far too few voluntary opportunities.' And then, when there are work placements, it always seems to be the same, like maybe the…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okay, perfect. Chair, if I may, I've just got two final questions.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
You mentioned there about systemic ableism. That's one of the concerns that I have; it's one of the concerns that has been expressed to the committee before, where an employer would look at, say, a person with a disability as maybe less productive than…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Okey-dokey. Perfect. Brilliant. Well, I suppose that brings us on to the second question: some of the evidence we've taken has basically said, 'Listen, if you address education inequalities within schools or within the college system, that will help address…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 6
Thank you, Chair, and thanks ever so much for coming in this afternoon. As the Chair said, I wanted to just briefly touch upon education and training, but one of the questions I'd like to ask first, though, covers the employment gap. One of the concerns that…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Sound the Alarm: The Governance of Fire and Rescue Services'
I would like to start by thanking my colleagues on the Equality and Social Justice Committee and the clerking team for preparing this invaluable and quite detailed report that I believe captures at a strategic level many of the issues facing fire and rescue…
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90-second Statements
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Cardiff City Football Club, who celebrated the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of their inaugural match this week. The club, originally known as Riverside AFC, played Barry West End on 7 October 1899…
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Topical Questions
I'd like to start by thanking my colleague Heledd for raising such an important topical question today. As many of you may know, I come from Llantwit Fardre. I knew June; I was in the same school as her children, and this tragic incident has had a devastating…
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Statement by the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership: Social partnership
Oh, well, okay. Finally, Minister, one quick thing: there's no mention whatsoever of disabled workers in the statement, and I know, for example, in the Equality and Social Justice Committee, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has called for disabled…
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Statement by the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership: Social partnership
I've got a last paragraph. Can I finish it?
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Statement by the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership: Social partnership
Thank you, Minister, for your statement today. In July this year, the then Minister for Social Partnership, Sarah Murphy, first explained how social partnership is embedded in the way of working in Wales and said that we've been doing it for a long time and…
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Business Statement and Announcement
Can I please ask the Trefnydd for two statements today, both concerning child hearing issues? Firstly, Trefnydd, I would like to support calls for an oral statement on the reasons why the GCSE in sign language in Wales has been dropped and what proposals the…
