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Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis and housing
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Diolch, Weinidog. Our communities have all suffered due to the economic effects of COVID, and this has been compounded of course by the cost-of-living crisis, which is hitting our most disadvantaged areas the hardest. As well as mitigating these crises now…
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Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
2. What consideration did the Minister give to supporting the introduction of community wealth-building strategies when allocating the budgets of local authorities in South Wales West? OQ57934
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Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Conversion Therapy
Thank you, Deputy Llywydd, and thank you to the Deputy Minister for her robust statement this afternoon. I'd like to identify myself and my party entirely with what you have said about the disgraceful stance of the Westminster Government on this issue. Having…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine
I thank the Minister for the statement. Last Saturday morning, I was at an event in Resolven to mark the support of the community for Ukraine. The event was on the local primary school yard at Ynysfach school, and people of all ages had turned out to stand in…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: High-risk tips
Across my region of South Wales West, there are more than 900 disused tips, with over 600 of them being within Neath Port Talbot, where I live. The overwhelming majority of these are deemed lower risk, but 39 are within the higher risk categories. It's…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: High-risk tips
Our industrial heritage has helped shape our nation. The history of our people can be read in our landscape. Entire communities were built around industry, they provided jobs, a living, and a sense of common identity. The reach and impact of Welsh history was…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Minding the future: The childcare barrier facing working parents'
Differences in access, availability and quality of childcare for different social groups reinforces inequality and outcomes between these groups, which is why universal, high-quality childcare access is so important when trying to create a prosperous Wales…
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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report: 'Minding the future: The childcare barrier facing working parents'
I'm pleased to contribute to this debate as Plaid Cymru's spokesperson on equality and social justice and also as a committee member. A few weeks ago, we marked International Women's Day and discussed here in the Chamber the annual Chwarae Teg 'State of the…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Homes for Ukraine scheme update
Given the utterly inadequate and unsuitable approach of the UK Government to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, and the warning issued in a statement by the heads of the Refugee Council, the British Red Cross, Save the Children and Oxfam that the visa system was…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Brif Weinidog. A constituent of mine from the Swansea valley, named Laura, recently got in contact with me about her awful experience of having to undergo pregnancy scans on her own without her husband due to COVID rules. Since COVID restrictions and…
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Questions to the First Minister
3. Will the First Minister make a statement on the effect of COVID on maternity services in South Wales West? OQ57865
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Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 10
Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 10
Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, both. I just want to ask a general question, really, regarding your understanding of the scale of peer-on-peer sexual harassment and the nature of that harassment. I just wanted to ask how concerned are parents and carers…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Certainly. And, as the mother of a daughter, I know exactly what that means now, because she has reported back to me regarding those types of cases. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Thank you. In your paper, you used a term that I wasn't completely clear regarding its meaning. Can you explain what you meant by saying increasingly that modern romantic and/or sexual relationships between young people now are no longer a process of consent…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Do you want me to ask the question again? You've provided us with some examples there regarding some of the most common forms of sexual harassment between learners, but what proportion of those cases—and I would think that we're talking about all the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Did you hear the—? Can you hear me?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
All the cases that you're aware of, including secondary.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Thank you. Very useful. One of the questions that we've been asking ourselves as a committee was that element of primary schools. So, clearly, from what you're told us, it's completely right that we're asking those questions regarding that sector. You've…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 9
Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, Professor. Clearly, your experience and your insight in this field in terms of your research and expertise is very, very broad, so how much of a surprise, if at all, were Estyn's report findings regarding the scale and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 8
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 8
I know you want to come back in, but I know that there'll be a number of questions, so if you could be succinct, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 8
Diolch, Iestyn.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 8
Thank you. I think that one of my fellow Members may ask specifically about the impact on specific groups and will draw upon your expertise, both, there. I appreciate what the two of you have said in terms of the lack of data and, in a way, that's why we felt…
