Mr Simon Thomas: ...from Wales as well, and they are deeply concerned—and I emphasise that; they are deeply concerned—about the uncertainty for them and for their children, because they do have children in our schools in Ceredigion, too. In addition to making the stance clear on behalf of the Welsh Government, what else can you do on behalf of the Government to urge the Westminster Government not to use...
Paul Davies: Of course, with few remaining survivors of the Holocaust alive today, it is our duty to continue to educate our younger generations to have even the most basic understanding of those events and to support the commemorations taking place across Wales to promote awareness. And as politicians, we have a responsibility to show leadership on this issue, we must ensure that anti-Semitic rhetoric is...
Paul Davies: ...NRW as ‘out of control’. Many of us have grave concerns about the ability of your Government to manage public services, with our largest health board in special measures, along with 19 schools. NRW is another public organisation that is under your management that is failing to deliver. So, leader of the house, on behalf of everyone who appreciates and relies on Welsh natural...
Alun Davies: I don't know what you were doing, First Minister, in 1973; I was in Dukestown Junior School in Tredegar. I'm not sure what Darren Millar was doing in 1973, but I'm sure he wasn't reading the report of Lord Kilbrandon, who reported at that time that Wales needed a Parliament of 100 members. Since then, we've had reports from Ivor Richard, from Laura McAllister, from everybody who's looked at...
David Melding: ...'s exhibition on the Celtic civilisation, and it ended 200 or 300 years too early it seemed to me, because the Celtic civilisation still flourishes: we see it in the eisteddfod; we see it in our school policy to encourage Welsh-medium education; we see it in the aim to have 1 million Welsh speakers and we see it in the Mabinogion—there has been yet another magnificent translation in the...
Rebecca Evans: ...drinking is really important—and we’ve invested there by supporting the development of a community alcohol partnership, which is bringing together local stakeholders, trading standards, police, schools and alcohol retailers, in order to support young people in particular to avoid having a harmful relationship with alcohol.
Hefin David: ...and their families. I’ll be 40 next year, but I remember—my father was a Rhymney valley district councillor, and I remember at the time feeling the incredible injustices of friends of mine in school on dinner tickets because their parents were on strike, and the difficulties and divisions that this caused in the school in which I grew up. I was fortunate my father didn’t pursue his...
John Griffiths: ...on our national health service, with all the benefits that brings for COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 health services, and in allowing restrictions to be eased for a return of economic activity, our schools and more normal living. Understandably, expectations of the roll-out are very high, and my constituents want to see every effort made to vaccinate as many people as possible, as quickly as...
...and replace with: Notes the actions being taken by the Welsh Government, NHS Wales and local government partners including: a) the announcement of a record £281m investment in health professional education and training budgets on 18 January 2023; b) the commitment to publish the workforce plan by the end of January 2023; c) the ongoing work of the care action committee to create...
Carwyn Jones: ...already mentioned two examples there of centres that have been put in place in order to deal with and meet the challenges of the future, and, of course, much of this will be driven by the higher education sector, so, many of these centres, in the future, will be run by them. But there's no doubt at all that we want to encourage cross-border economic working. It happens everywhere else in...
Adam Price: ...leadership hustings. Reports from the first hustings held last week in the battle to replace you certainly made for interesting reading. Your skills Minister complained about the cuts to adult education. The finance Secretary described your attempts at reorganising local government as having been, as he put it, flawed and a distraction. And your health Secretary admitted that healthcare...
Mark Drakeford: ...indigenous and lesser used languages, with specific reference to early years and childcare policy. In leading this item, we were able to draw on the pioneering work in Wales on early years language education. In keeping with this theme of the summit, and in line with the way we work in Wales as a bilingual nation, the plenary discussions were conducted on a multilingual basis. For the...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...for recruitment and retention of staff, including programmes that are standardised to provide clinical oversight and tutoring to our nursing staff, and also international recruitment. Health Education and Improvement Wales is leading on the development of a sustainable national workforce development plan for nursing, and I hope that this work will lead to solutions and a focus to tackle...
Suzy Davies: ...the commissioner in terms of legislation on the new curriculum, implementing the continuum and creating fair examination systems. And the report refers to the commissioner’s work on Welsh-medium education. Now, I would have liked to have seen specific references to other teaching locations, not just Welsh medium, because Welsh language rights, as safeguarded by standards, are relevant to...
Julie Morgan: ...across the UK. The immediacy of the current position in Cwm Taf Morgannwg has arisen because of staffing shortages, and it would be wrong to ignore the challenges the health board is facing. Health Education and Improvement Wales is already developing a joint health and social care workforce strategy. Four doctors in training are expected to achieve their certificate of completion of...
Nick Ramsay: ...Children's Society has said that parents of deaf children currently face a postcode lottery when it comes to funding for these sign language classes that are so crucial to helping their social and educational development. Can I ask that the Welsh Government's review—because I know you've committed to one—of the British Sign Language funding takes place as swiftly as possible so that...
David Melding: ...Heritage Group and what they’ve done in the past to raise awareness of the Senghenydd disaster and keep that memory alive through local displays and such. But displays, records, photographs, education materials, memorials, public art, walking trails are all vital in retaining our memory as a living thing of our past. And I do hope that you’re working with the councils to ensure that...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...within the policy framework in Wales, with the future generations Act, our approach to economic investment, our approach to jobs and skills and our approach to developing and integrating the higher education sector within the work that we do to power the economy forward. If we have random input of funding from the UK Government without any engagement with that, then it's a recipe for...
David Melding: ...have via public transport.’ And better air quality monitoring is also required, especially in Wales’s 36 air quality management areas and in particular, I think, monitoring of air quality near schools. The impact on young people of air pollution is particularly acute. We must ensure that the Welsh Government delivers effectively on its own national air quality strategy, and that is...
...Welsh Government to ensure that people who wish to work from home are not impeded by a lack of broadband access. 5. Notes that Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth of Manchester Business School have stated that flexible workers, and particularly home workers, face 'the potential for occupational stress to be increased as a result of work intensification, conflicts with...
