Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. This is an important issue and I'm very pleased that we're getting the opportunity to discuss it today. Although the motion today talks about new-build properties, I wanted to raise the issue of leaseholders who have brought former council or social housing properties, and then faced very large bills to...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm very pleased to open this debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee's report on perinatal mental health. Perinatal mental illness affects up to one in five women in Wales. With around 33,000 births a year, that means up to 6,600 women in Wales encounter mental health issues caused or worsened by pregnancy or childbirth every year....
Lynne Neagle: The underlying reason our committee chose to consider this topic is the fact that perinatal mental illness can have an effect on children. It has been proven that the first 1,000 days of a child's life, from pregnancy through to a child's second birthday, is a critical window of time that sets the stage for a person's development and lifelong health. It is a period of enormous potential, but...
Lynne Neagle: While we accept that the most specialist of services will sometimes require patients to travel, our report is clear that mother and baby unit provision needs to be developed in Wales. Recommendation 6 called on the Welsh Government to establish a mother and baby unit in south Wales, commissioned and funded on a national basis to provide all-Wales services and adequately staffed in terms of...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm going to have to be very quick because I haven't got a lot of time, so I won't be able to respond to everybody's points, but thank you to everyone who's contributed, and it's great to see such a range of speakers across the Chamber on this very important subject. I'll just try and pick up on some of the points from the debate. Darren Millar referred...
Lynne Neagle: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on efforts to improve school standards in Torfaen?
Lynne Neagle: Will the First Minister make a statement on how the Welsh Government supports Gypsy and Traveller families in education?
Lynne Neagle: I'm pleased to make a brief contribution to this debate. Now, I don't profess to have the kind of detailed and technical knowledge that some of our other speakers have shown this afternoon, but what I do know is that I have dealt with a very steady stream of complaints about unadopted roads in my 19 years as Assembly Member for Torfaen. Now, in some cases, those roads have been in a genuinely...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Loneliness and isolation might have been seen as a peripheral subject a few years ago, and I am pleased that we have prioritised it in the health committee and that there is growing public awareness of the damage loneliness can do to our health. We are all becoming familiar with the public health impact of...
Lynne Neagle: I'm speaking this afternoon in my capacity as Chair of the Assembly's Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've recently undertaken a comprehensive inquiry into the emotional and mental health of children and young people in Wales. Tomorrow, we will hold our final oral evidence session, hearing from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services and the Cabinet Secretary for...
Lynne Neagle: I'm grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate on Estyn's annual report. It is important that the Assembly has the opportunity to scrutinise the work of the chief inspector, both in this annual debate and in committee. The Children, Young People and Education Committee is itself taking evidence from the chief inspector on the annual report next week, and I'm sure that what has...
Lynne Neagle: What steps is the Cabinet Secretary taking to improve educational outcomes for Gypsy and Traveller children in Wales?
Lynne Neagle: Will the First Minister provide an update on the toolkit that is being produced to develop a national approach to tackling anti-social behaviour, for use by social housing providers in Wales?
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm very pleased to open this debate today on the Children, Young People and Education Committee's report on teachers' professional learning and education. The quality of teaching in our schools is, I believe, the most important element of our children's education. Both the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Estyn have left no-one in any doubt about how...
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Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can I thank all the Members who have contributed to the debate this afternoon, and also thank the Cabinet Secretary for her response? I will try and cover some of the main points that were made by Members. I very much welcome Darren Millar's reinforcement of the message that the role of teachers and the quality of teaching is actually fundamental if we are going...
Lynne Neagle: 8. Will the First Minister outline how the Welsh Government is working to improve child health in Wales? OAQ51964
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, First Minister. One of the biggest health challenges children face in Wales is that of childhood obesity, where Wales has some of the worst rates in the UK and, indeed, in western Europe. So, it's absolutely vital that we start to tackle that issue. Now, it has come to my attention that, over the next three years, Wales will receive £57 million as a result of the soft drinks...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. I know that you are very well aware of my very deep concerns about the impact of attempting a major restructure of local government during a time of austerity, and can I take this opportunity to remind the Cabinet Secretary that in the last Assembly, Torfaen submitted a proposal for a voluntary merger, which was declined? So, there is...
Lynne Neagle: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on social housing provision in Torfaen?
