Julie Morgan: ...of the team the best. But can I draw particular attention to the achievements of the highest scorer in the championship so far? He was born and bred in Cardiff North, went to Whitchurch High School and his family still live in Whitchurch. Of course, it’s Gareth Bale. So, I would like to also ask what the Assembly can do to acknowledge the achievement of everybody in the team.
Julie Morgan: I particularly welcome the actions on food poverty, and I am pleased that she mentioned the initiative that was taken in Cardiff by Food Cardiff—the school holidays initiative. One of the things that I’m very concerned about is waste. I held a short debate on waste during the last Assembly and there was a huge amount of public interest. As a result, I had some sort of training sessions in...
Julie Morgan: ...that we have a debate that is based on facts, and we know that the figures that are given, and the tone of the debate, are just grossly exaggerated. According to figures from Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, the percentage of non-UK-born nationals in Wales is just 5.8 per cent, and the percentage of migrants of working age in Wales is 8 per cent of the population. That...
Julie Morgan: ...then, but the challenge still remains. He called for something similar to the Cabinet sub-committee that is recommended by the Prison Reform Trust, as well as covering, in a wide-ranging speech, educational attainment, the permanence of education and the participation of children in the decisions about their lives. Lee Waters talked about the further education system. He talked about the...
Julie Morgan: 6. What plans does the Minister have to improve pupils’ understanding of politics and current affairs in schools? OAQ(5)0015(EDU)
Julie Morgan: ...of the election, and she went to vote. But she told me that she and her friends just felt they didn’t have enough information about politics and choices, and what you could do via democracy, in schools. So, is there anything further that she thinks could be done to encourage young people to recognise how important the voting process is, and what sort of decisions can be made?
Julie Morgan: ...curriculum does address hands-on training and makes the students aware of the actual jobs that they will do when they do actually enter employment? I know that the new curriculum at Cardiff medical school does offer now a lot more hands-on experience for the students and they believe that the breadth of experience that’s being offered to them in that training has resulted, this year, in...
Julie Morgan: ...stage? Would the Minister agree that it’s really important that it’s not only the transport officers and departments in local authorities that are involved, but all the other departments—the education departments, the housing departments—because this is something that affects the behaviour of everybody in most aspects of their life? Is the Minister aware whether, in local...
Julie Morgan: ...d like to congratulate Vikki Howells on choosing such a vitally important subject for this debate. I just wanted to refer to a visit I made to Denmark some years ago, with a delegation, looking at education provision. I visited a preschool, such as she referred to in Sweden, I think, for two and three-year-olds. The two and three-year-olds were playing outside in the snow. It was bitterly...
Julie Morgan: ..., Sean Evans, who was also at Rio as an Olympic sailing coach. Would the Cabinet Secretary recognise the great achievements of the Llanishen sailing club, which offered sailing to all the local schools? Sadly, the Llanishen reservoir is now drained and not in operation. But, under the new ownership of Dŵr Cymru, we hope it’ll be restored to its former glory. So, would the Cabinet...
Julie Morgan: In Whitchurch, we’ve got a company called Schools Into Europe, and I’ve been told by the director there that there has been a drop-off in the number of schools undertaking trips abroad, which he does think is partly due to the confusion over travel safety guidance, and schools adopting their own ad hoc rules as to whether it’s safe to travel or not. So, following up to her answer to the...
Julie Morgan: ...transform the lives of families. It will affect rates of employment, it will boost the economy, it will unleash the talents of many parents—many of them women—as well as providing first-class educational and care opportunities for the children. So, I think that this is an ambitious, challenging programme. I know that my constituents are absolutely thrilled that this opportunity is...
Julie Morgan: ...children to start good, healthy patterns of behaviour from an early stage in life. I do think it’s important to remember at this point that many of the activities that children undertake outside school do cost parents quite a bit money. Football clubs, swimming and tennis—parents do actually have to pay out of their pockets for a lot of that. That’s why it is so important that much...
Julie Morgan: ...and integrate, and I do believe that very strongly—we need to do that—but I also think that we must recognise the strengths that those families bring. I’m particularly thinking in terms of schools, because in Cathays High School in my constituency, where a lot of asylum-seeking children and economic migrants, as we call them, are, there are 63 different languages spoken and children...
Julie Morgan: .... The young women who spoke were absolutely inspiring in their very positive attitudes, but also revealing how much inequality they do feel that they face in their everyday lives. They said that in school, they felt that they weren’t allowed to play football, the teachers thought they weren’t as good as boys at maths—all the sorts of things that we know tend to happen and that we...
Julie Morgan: Will the Minister make a statement on speech and language therapy in schools?
Julie Morgan: Will the Minister make a statement on speech and language therapy in schools?
Julie Morgan: ...woman who lives in Cardiff North—his friend—who said, ‘Bash may have been born abroad, but he is now Welsh’. He’s been brought up by a foster family—she’s still his mum—he’s been educated here, he has no contacts in Afghanistan, and it just seems to me absolutely inhumane that, at the age of 18, the Home Office then decide, ‘Right, he goes back’. I accept entirely...
Julie Morgan: ...in an urban environment, and it is important that we get the feedback from children on the places that we do have and what they mean to them. One of the great joys, I think, of this job is meeting school councils when they come into this building and we hear from them, first hand, exactly what their views are, because consultation with children and giving them a chance to have their say I...
Julie Morgan: ...short debate to voice some of the concerns and anxieties that have been brought to my attention about the consequences of the MEDIC Forward programme introduced by Cardiff University at the medical school, based at the University Hospital of Wales site in the Heath, in my constituency of Cardiff North. I’ve had many people come to me expressing a great deal of disquiet and concern....
