, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
And that could perhaps cut across that attitude of fear that some employers have because they would know that support would be available for the employee. Great, thank you. You were going to talk about Disability Confident.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Sorry. Could I just ask one further question on that? We have heard people say that employers—. You mentioned 'best-kept secret' there. It's obvious that there is a problem in terms of its implementation, the waiting list, and so on, but is there enough…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Okay. Right. I just wanted to check that. Great. Thank you. We have heard a number of views about some of the UK Government's key interventions and those views were quite mixed, for example, on Access to Work and Disability Confident. Could you let us know…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Yes. Okay. But, in terms of you, in terms of Careers Wales—. Obviously, it does sound as if there are people who are on both groups, people like the DPECs and so on, but in terms of you as a national agency, you're not aware, or you haven't seen evidence of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
So, could I just have some clarity? On which group does Careers Wales sit? Is it that group that's existed since 2018?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
We have certainly heard evidence, to be honest, that there is a great number of groups, working groups and taskforces relating to this, but there's been very little progress, has there not, so that does strike a consistent chord, to be honest, in terms of the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Yes.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Thank you, Chair. I have a couple of questions regarding making progress in terms of disabled people's employment, in terms of what the Welsh Government and the UK Government are doing. So, we have known for several years that Welsh Government has a…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Yes, thank you. Thank you so much. Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
And Access to Work: do you have any further comments on that? As I said, you said—you referenced that some employers had had bad experiences with it.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
And we've heard mixed views also of those UK Government interventions. Access to Work you've mentioned, and you talked in one of your previous answers about employers having bad experiences of that, and also I think you said about Disability Confident—and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Thanks. What, therefore, do you feel—? I mean, I can guess from your first answer what you feel about the impact of current Welsh Government, specifically, employment support initiatives. So, what opportunities are there? Could you give us a few examples of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 8
Thank you, Chair, and good afternoon. I'd like to ask what involvement you have had with the Welsh Government's disability rights taskforce, which of course includes a working group looking at employment and income. Have you come across that at all? Have you…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill relating to planning processes for quarry development
The industrial history of our communities is engraved in our landscape, and some of these communities are so inextricably linked with the industry that their names have become synonymous with the traces of those industries, the scars on the land that continue…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
You don't have all the powers, and I take it that you won't be urging the Chancellor to scrap that two-child cap in the forthcoming budget, which is disappointing, considering all this evidence in all these reports. According to a new report by Citizens…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch. The well-being of Wales report clearly demonstrates for me that tackling poverty is the key to improving inequalities. Trussell’s latest report, published last week, shows that the number of people facing hunger and hardship—that is, the number of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Inequality remains a significant challenge that hinders not only individual potential, but the collective well-being of our country. The most recent report into the well-being of Wales, published at the end of last month, highlighted…
, Plenary
Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
This is something that we've been raising and the Bevan Foundation have been loudly raising: the issue of no recourse to public funds as regards entitlement to free school meals. I've raised it with the Cabinet Secretary for Education. There still has been no…
, Plenary
Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2023-24
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. There are several important elements, I think, to the report that require the Government's attention, a number of them related to the impact of poverty and the way that children's rights are being undermined. I'd like to start by…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you. Local authorities provide the majority of front-line services to support residents who need assistance. And we heard yesterday, didn’t we, that there is a black hole of £540 million, at least, in their budgets, which will have a significant impact…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. How is the Welsh Government supporting South Wales West residents who have been affected by the redundancies at Tata steelworks? OQ61696
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Yes, thank you. I will move on to one other question. Professor Debbie Foster told the committee that she found that the Welsh Government's work on this issue was carried out in silos, and that they weren't interconnected. How have you found the Welsh…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Yes. With regard to the action plan, I suppose, that is going to be forthcoming.
