Ann Jones: The next item on our agenda is a motion to suspend Standing Orders to allow for the motions under items 8 and 10 on our agenda to be debated, and I call on the Minister for Education to move the motion. Kirsty Williams.
Lesley Griffiths: ...opportunities—Suzy Davies asked that question—to include an update of the licensed animal welfare establishments, and that includes, but not exclusively, all stables, for instance, riding schools and dog boarding establishments. It may also be appropriate to consider the inclusion of the dog breeding regulations when these are reviewed in the future. The local authority enforcement...
Julie James: ...support for individuals, communities and businesses. They have run, with the NHS, our contact tracing system and ensured those self-isolating are supported. They have continued to provide for the education of our children and the day-to-day services like waste and recycling we all rely on. The police have continued to keep us safe on our streets, in our homes and on our roads. They've...
A North Wales Medical School
...that it would be 'foolish' to have a plan for backlogs before the pandemic is over. 4. Further notes that the former First Minister also admitted that Labour had taken 'its eye off the ball' on education. 5. Acknowledges that to rebuild Wales, we need a change of direction and a new government on the 6 May 2021, that will deliver a recovery plan for Wales, which includes: a) creating...
...the New Treatment Fund, making newly approved treatments available in the NHS in an average of 13 days; c) Improved PISA results in all three domains and developed a radical new curriculum for our schools; d) Declared a climate change emergency and set Wales’s first legally binding target to achieve net zero emissions; e) Built 20,000 new homes and strengthened the rights of renters. 2....
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...to take a broad approach to the mental health needs of young people. This includes prevention and early intervention, for instance through our whole-system approach to emotional well-being in schools, through to improving access to specialist services.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...and will appreciate the role of an opposition party in trying to influence policy and changing direction when we need to do that. That's why, when the Minister said there was no case for a medical school for north Wales, we were determined to continue to campaign on that, and we're pleased to see the change of mind there. To COVID now, the situation in Wales is improving, and that's...
John Griffiths: ...of Physicians in Wales got together around 30 organisations to look at this situation, and they were looking at research that showed that the social determinants of health or ill-health—housing, education and poverty—can be more important to health outcomes than healthcare itself or, indeed, lifestyle choices. So, in looking at this situation, they believe that there should be a more...
David Rees: Minister, yesterday I raised concerns about support for young children, and children going back to schools, who have struggled, I think, during this pandemic, and how we can be sure that there are sufficient resources available for them to be able to benefit from talking therapies, therapists and counsellors. I'm deeply worried that we are still short of those numbers of counsellors and...
Siân Gwenllian: ...and also individuals with care or work responsibilities that mean that they can't be available to sit in front of their computer at a specific time? And secondly, in terms of the fund, performance schools have failed to make full use of the support available from Government across the various sectors. It seems that they don't tick the right boxes in order to benefit from the funds that...
Suzy Davies: ...addition to spending more time with their young children, we know that women are more likely to support children with their schoolwork, and they are more likely to socialise with other families in schools and play centres. The way that we socialise in the workplace too is built on listening and sharing by conversing. So, how are you picking up on the best things in the way that women...
Llyr Gruffydd: ...of these issues. And we're pleased that the Minister agrees that it's important to continue raising awareness of Welsh taxes and that she supports the important role that the Senedd has in educating, engaging and informing the Welsh public on fiscal devolution. I am pleased to hear from the Senedd Commission that raising awareness is a part of the communications and engagement strategy of...
Jane Hutt: ...live example of how we're ensuring that as legislation comes forward, it works with and complements the well-being of future generations Act in its well-being duty; and last week, the Minister for Education announcing how the Welsh Government is investing in our future generations by launching an international learning exchange programme for Wales, and this is a down payment on our young...
Mark Drakeford: ...family, who have to face that loss in the particularly distressing circumstances caused by the public health emergency. Llywydd, when I moved into the juniors section of the Model Church in Wales School in Carmarthen, I took part in a competition organised by the World Wildlife Fund. A small number of far bigger boys and girls were to travel to Cardiff—a very distant and important...
Andrew RT Davies: ...come out of COVID—and I use that word 'coming out of COVID', because we're very much still coming out of it, rather than looking back and forgetting about it. There is a big job of work to do in education, in the economy and in the health service, in particular, which has been so battered, shall we say, over the last 12, 14 months, that many of the front-line workers have put heaven and...
Mark Drakeford: ...the biggest catch-up plan for young people in the history of devolution. It will set out the work to develop a new young person’s guarantee, giving everyone under the age of 25 the offer of work, education or training. It will outline steps towards a fair deal for care, including paying the real living wage for all those working in the care sector. It will set out the action we will take...
Mark Drakeford: ...PCR tests in a week, we did 67,000 tests last week. So, there is ample capacity in the system for PCR tests, and we are using hundreds of thousands of lateral flow tests in Wales to make sure that schools continue to be protected, that care home workers are protected, and, indeed, that businesses are able to use them as well. We are involved in the social distancing review that the UK...
Mark Drakeford: .... Amongst our immediate priorities are the continuation of support for businesses while the coronavirus crisis persists and the implementation of our young persons guarantee of an offer of work, education or training to everyone aged under 25 in Wales.
Mark Drakeford: ...were available for businesses. Is it his serious proposition that we should have used the money given to us for test, trace, protect purposes, for vaccination purposes, for catch-up purposes in our schools—that all of that should have been used for business support in Wales? If it is, let him say it. It was a choice he could have offered. I don't suppose, however, he is at all. We have...
