, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Ruth Nortey, if I could ask you a bit more about your research: I wondered whether, in your research, throughout Wales, you've come across particular issues arising in particular areas that you're able to highlight, and have you seen any particular good…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you. And then, finally from me, what about support for disabled people who want to become self-employed? Could Business Wales take any more actions? What are your recommendations there?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
The next issue I was going to raise was transport. You've already mentioned that, and disabled people have raised that as being a big issue in relation to accessing employment. So, I wondered if the disability rights taskforce did discuss the issue of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you. I'm sure we'll consider all those issues.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Right. So, how do you think employers could learn more about the social model? What would be the best means of that happening?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Bore da, and very nice to have you here today. In your written evidence, you said that there's little evidence that the social model of disability is being used to underpin employment and recruitment practices. Can you expand on what you mean when you say…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
September is Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month. In Wales, around 1,200 people are diagnosed with gynaecological cancer every year, and 470 people die. The five most common types are cervical, ovarian, endometrial, vaginal and vulval. Different…
, Plenary
Motion under Standing Order 26.79 to withdraw the Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill
I think it is a great shame that the Bill has had to be withdrawn. The Bill did show our ambition to take this place, our national Parliament, a step towards being fully representative of the public that we serve in Wales, and I do hope that this may be…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales: A new partnership to transform our railways
First of all, can I praise Transport for Wales for its work in the community and with politicians in Cardiff North, and for its responsiveness to many of the issues that we've raised with them? The electrification's caused a lot of disruption to residents in…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
I really welcome the report that the Minister has given today. I think that the move towards a national framework, following the setting up of the national office, is a very positive step forward, and I'm very pleased that the Minister is going to keep us…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
This week is International Week of Deaf People, so I’d like to ask for a Government statement on what the Government is doing to support deaf and hard of hearing people across Wales. I’m very pleased that Wales is the only country in the UK to include British…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Yes, that's fine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Well, I'll just ask two quick questions and I'll put them together. One is about children's rights. I don't think there's any reference in the child rights impact assessment about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, for example. So, what…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
I support that. We certainly want children with ALN to have the opportunity. I was thinking about—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
It was on the additional learning needs. The point I wanted to make was that you would have children with additional leaning needs who weren’t in units and who weren’t in special schools, and how you would ensure that they were part of it. I think you did…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes. And then the last question I had is: what's your assessment of the recommendations in the Jay review of criminally exploited children, which Action for Children commissioned?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
—should be devolved, yes. So, it's got a long history, certainly. But have you had any indication from the Ministers involved in Westminster that they're thinking in these terms?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes, and I was on the Welsh Affairs Committee in Westminster 20 years ago, and the recommendation was that youth justice—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
And if youth justice is devolved, which I hope very much it will be devolved, have you got any particular sort of changes, or particular initiatives that you think we’d be able to develop here as a result of that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Then I wondered—but I think this is to Jane probably—whether you’ve had any discussion with UK Government Ministers about recognising seeing children as victims in need of support, rather than perpetrators of crime, because that’s a key issue, isn’t it?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Right, then, to go on to the charity and the third sector. I think we all know what a vital role they play, particularly working with children directly. Do you think there's a case for the statutory authorities to do the statutory bit, and the relationship…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you. Have you any comments on how the safeguarding boards are playing a role in all this?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Right. Thanks very much for that. We've talked a lot about inter-agency working and sharing of information, and obviously it's all key to any sort of development in this area. So, could you tell us in what specific ways the Welsh Government is ensuring…
