Julie Morgan: ...are also here. It is a privilege for me to have the responsibility for unpaid carers in my portfolio, and I want to ensure that carers do feel valued, that they don't face stigma in society, or in schools, when they say, 'I am a carer'. Across Wales, there are at least 370,000 people caring for someone else for at least an hour a week. And Jayne Bryant has already mentioned their huge...
Mike Hedges: ...to provide a breakdown of the funding claimed by each local authority against the additional funding the Welsh Government has made available. Also, a report on council projected reserves, excluding schools' delegated budgets, would be helpful, and an update on schools' delegated budgets and the number projected to go into deficit this year would also be helpful. And this is only anecdotal,...
Jack Sargeant: ...community assets in a broad sense, but there have also been a number of petitions that we've considered as a committee seeking to specifically preserve local buildings, for example Cowbridge Girls School or Coleg Harlech. Every single one of us in our communities will have a building that doesn't make enough money for its owner, a building that has become perhaps too costly to maintain,...
Julie James: ...colleagues, because this agenda cuts right across the Welsh Government's work, to make sure that we address in that holistic way those sorts of behaviours and so, for example, we pick things up in schools, we pick things up through the youth protection engagement framework and we pick things up from a number of agencies that all share information correctly in order to be able to get both...
Darren Millar: ...on this matter. I’ve been contacted by many residents in Colwyn Bay regarding a potential development in the Pwllycrochan area in the town, and, unfortunately, as you will appreciate, many of the schools in the town are bursting at the seams, there’s a lack of dentists, our healthcare facilities are struggling as well to cope with the demands that are placed upon them, and we’ve got...
Angela Burns: ..., and, two, that they are able to earn a better standard of living, a better wage, so that they can then put that back into the economy. That, in turn, generates the cash for us to spend on health, education and all the other myriad public service requirements that we have. And, so, the working base is actually picking up quite a hefty burden. So, my question to you, Cabinet Secretary, is,...
David Lloyd: ...Government and all of us will be contributing to this target of a million Welsh speakers by halfway through this century—of course, partially, the majority of the work will be undertaken in the education sector—and thinking of our scrutiny work as a committee, then we will have to look at how we’re going to achieve that outcome. So, we will also have to work with the education...
Delyth Jewell: ...blocked culvert. If the same thing keeps happening, how can these residents trust that their properties will be safe in the future? And finally, what counselling services will be made available in schools in affected areas, please, because particularly very little children can find these incidents really deeply damaging? Thank you.
Carwyn Jones: ...ground there may be between the parties so we can remove the situation where we have 22 local authorities, one of which collapsed entirely, and six of which were in special measures at one point in education. It’s not a sustainable model. There’s not a huge amount of disagreement over that, but, of course, it’s a question of whether an agreement can be reached on a cross-party basis...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Diolch, Llywydd. I'm delighted to help open proceedings here on the Stage 3 committee for this important Bill. I've responded to calls from scrutiny committees—the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee—for a duty on the face of the Bill, and I've duly brought forward amendment 4. To give effect to this duty, the Welsh...
Adam Price: ...society, including political parties—my own party among them—had failed to properly acknowledge and address the systemic racism to be found in almost every sphere, from politics to health, to education and the economy. As a powerfully symbolic, but also practical, step to achieve that shared aspiration to become an anti-racist nation, will you commit to Wales joining Scotland in...
Jenny Rathbone: ...jump—the 400m, sorry. So, this is an exemplary family and an exemplary young man, and it’s causing huge concern in the community amongst people who’ve met this young man and who’ve been at school with him, who’ve been at college with him, and who realise just what a contribution he could be making in Wales. So, it was fantastic to have such a great show of solidarity amongst all...
Carwyn Jones: ...as to the benefits of introducing 20 mph speed limits. That will then inform whether we require a refreshment to the current road safety framework. A comprehensive review of speed limits near schools on or near trunk roads has been carried out. There is a multi-year programme to introduce part-time 20 mph limits in those locations. Funding has been provided for local authorities to...
Adam Price: ...some of his attack lines overnight. But they said—and you said—that the agreement does nothing to help the people of Wales: tell that to the 200,000 children that will now receive free school meals as a result of that; tell that to the extra thousands of children that will receive free childcare. They say it does nothing for the NHS and yet, at its heart is the creation of a national...
...pockets provided by the Welsh Government this financial year, including: a) extending the £200 Winter Fuel Support Payment to 400,000 households this winter; b) rolling out universal primary free school meals from September 2022; c) investing £51.6m in the Discretionary Assistance Fund to provide an emergency lifeline for people in severe financial crisis; d) £4m to fund fuel vouchers...
Heledd Fychan: ...as beach litter picks, fundraising for local causes, family film clubs, grub and games night, going to gigs and even learning how to French plait their children's hair, ready for when they go to school. Using their social media platform, they discuss taboo topics such as depression, trouble conceiving children, child bereavement, autism diagnosis, tackling awkward toddler sleeping...
Llyr Gruffydd: ...many people was that weren’t alternative arrangements in place immediately after the company went bust. There are still people who can’t travel to work in Wrexham and can’t travel to education in Wrexham because of those services lost. That isn’t good enough, is it?
Carl Sargeant: ...behind that, and they are often very complex. What we’ve got to do as a collective is understand what those impacts are. That’s why we’re investing in Families First, in Flying Start, in educational promotion programmes and in positive parenting programmes. And the ACE profiling of individuals is just one small part of the ability of complex families to move forward. Of course, I...
Lynne Neagle: ...in their lives. But we know that we need to do more, which is why we're continuing to prioritise investment in perinatal mental health services, and this is also a priority for things like Health Education and Improvement Wales's workforce plan. But we have made really good progress in terms of establishing those teams, and we will continue to prioritise our focus on perinatal mental...
Carwyn Jones: ...already between the sports. There was a time when people would happily play rugby in the winter and cricket in the summer, and the overlap wasn't there; it certainly wasn't there when I was in school, when we played on sloping pitches with a dull ball and one pad—that was the way to learn cricket, if I remember. But the serious point is this: it's important that cricket is able to appeal...
