, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. And then one question to end from myself regarding pathway plans and personal advisers. Despite the code of practice for looked-after and accommodated children, which sets out in detail, and very clearly, that leaving care should be a planned…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you, Chair. Just one question—I'm aware of time, so if you could keep the answers brief. We are aware of comments made by a judge sitting in north Wales, and, as Members, we've also heard concerns about the increasing use of deprivation of liberty…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. Can you outline the scale of the challenges you face with regarding to using unregistered placements, and your views on the challenges you face from Care Inspectorate Wales in this regard?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
And just another question that I had: do you have any specific comments about the availability of mother and baby placements in Wales?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. I'll move on to the questions regarding placements. Could I ask you what you feel are the biggest challenges right now for local authorities in securing quality placements for children close to home? Do you have any comments on the separate issue…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
And you mentioned, for example, the problems in terms of funding for some of the third sector agencies, perhaps that is specifically a problem.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you, Chair. I'd just like to come back very quickly. I'd like to talk to you about placements, specifically, but just to go back to the point that Jane Dodds was making and your response, Sally, to that. Can I just confirm, therefore that you think…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
But, Dirprwy Lywydd, would we need to spend as much on these measures if Wales were free of this unfair and unequal union of nations? Plaid Cymru has been raising concerns about the impact of underinvestment in research and development in Wales for some time…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
As Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for equality and social justice, I'd like to support the points made by Jane Dodds on the investment in the DAF and also echo the comments made by Llyr Gruffydd and Heledd Fychan on the importance of the investment in universal…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
That's all from me. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Thank you. In terms of this new data field that is being introduced by the Higher Education Statistics Agency for care-experienced students in 2022-23, will this be helpful?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Thank you, Chair. Well, following on from that question on data, what should the Welsh Government do to improve the data collected on outcomes for care leavers, particularly in respect of higher education?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you. Just one follow-up question on the nature of the code of practice. It states that, 'local authorities may wish to set up a system of rewards and incentives linked, for example, to attendance in education, training or other activities aimed at…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you. I think, Lee, you mentioned in one of your previous answers that you don't have evidence in terms of what is being delivered exactly, but there is a very detailed section in the code of practice for looked-after and accommodated children, which…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you very much. To be clear, we can imagine and we know the impact of debt on somebody, but in our previous evidence session, we were talking about homelessness, and the high proportion of young people leaving care who are homeless. So, would you agree…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair, and good morning. You have outlined in your responses so far how important financial literacy is. Could you tell us about the impact of poor financial literacy on young people leaving care?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Thank you, Chair. We are tight on time and, if you could keep your responses succinct, I just wanted to ask you—. We've heard about a number of things this morning that you, too, want to see changing—things such as thinking of children's needs rather than…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Diolch. Diolch, Gadeirydd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. And then, do you have any comments to make on the dual role that social workers play when there are concerns with regard to child protection regarding the child of a care-experienced parent, namely that of having a safeguarding role for the child…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. To what extent is there an argument that the social worker professionals are damned if they do and damned if they don't, in terms of recommending to family courts the need to remove children from their birth parents? How difficult is it for them to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you. Clearly, we know about those criteria and the thresholds that you have referred to, and the need to demonstrate and adhere to those criteria in those cases. So, do you feel that that is something that just happens, in terms of how people analyse or…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Thank you, Chair, and good morning. I just wanted to check that the interpretation is working. Yes? Excellent. Something that we have seen is that there is a huge variation in terms of the rate of children in care between local authorities. So I'd like to…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The Welsh language
I'd like to thank the Conservatives for bringing this motion forward and to congratulate them on their contributions in the Welsh language. You mentioned the fact, and took pride in the fact, that S4C had been established by a Conservative Government. Of…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Minister, we on the Equality and Social Justice Committee have heard very serious evidence about the depths of debt in Wales and that energy costs are fundamental to that. I've raised with you in the past the lack of progress in terms of delivering on the…
