Lynne Neagle: 3. What steps is the Minister taking to ensure that all local authorities and schools are using the new guidance on talking about suicide and self-harm in schools? OAQ55100
Lynne Neagle: I speak today as Chair of the Assembly's Children, Young People and Education Committee. Each year, we consider how the Welsh Government's draft budget provides for the children and young people of Wales. This work is informed by the financial scrutiny we mainstream into all our work and is undertaken with a children's rights approach at its heart. Throughout this Assembly, we have called on...
Lynne Neagle: Minister, last week the cross-party group on suicide prevention, which I chair, had a presentation from Professor Ann John on the thematic review of deaths by suicide and probable suicide in children 2013-14. The review examines the deaths of 33 children who died by suicide and probable suicide and seeks to identify opportunities for prevention of further suicides. I've said before in this...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Llywydd. The Inspire! tutor awards are organised by Learning and Work Cymru and celebrate the work of dedicated tutors and mentors, who have encouraged people from all backgrounds and ages to achieve their potential. Behind every successful adult learner, there is an inspirational tutor or mentor. Daniel Dyboski-Bryant of Grŵp Llandrillo Menai has been teaching refugees and...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, for the opportunity to make a brief contribution to this debate. This is a landmark day for children in Wales and I am really pleased that we have got here after all this time. I think it is very important to recognise the role that the Deputy Minister has played on this issue for 20 years in two different Parliaments. So, thank you, Deputy Minister, for...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Llywydd. Can I thank you, Minister, for your statement and add my thanks to you, your officials and the many, many people who, on the ground, have worked really, really hard to deliver this? I was at a conference yesterday looking at the whole-school approach, where some teachers were presenting on the health and well-being AoLE, and the enthusiasm that teachers have for...
Lynne Neagle: The Welsh Government urgently needs to implement the recommendations in 'Everybody's Business' to develop a postvention strategy for suicide. That strategy should be co-produced with those with lived experience of suicide bereavement, and ensure that flexible support is available to people when they need it, whether that be in the immediate aftermath of a suicide, in six weeks, in two, three...
Lynne Neagle: Members will remember that the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, so ably chaired by Dai Lloyd, undertook a major inquiry into suicide prevention in Wales in 2018 and produced a report called 'Everybody's Business'. As part of that inquiry, we looked carefully at the support available for those bereaved by suicide, including meeting with people living with suicide loss. I've spoken...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm really pleased to open this debate on suicide bereavement. I'd like to thank Dai Lloyd AM and David Melding AM for co-submitting the motion with me today, and Dai Lloyd for closing the debate. I'd also like to thank all the Members who have supported the motion. Today, I want to start by recognising that losing someone to suicide is a uniquely devastating loss....
Lynne Neagle: David, will you take an intervention?
Lynne Neagle: You said that you had had lots of communication from professionals working in this field. Are you aware that every single professional who gave evidence to the Children, Young People and Education Committee from health, education, across the board, were in support of this legislation?
Lynne Neagle: There can be no better backdrop to our debate today and the headlong rush to exit the EU at the end of the month than the ludicrous pantomime surrounding the ringing of Big Ben on 31 January. Firstly, it is a complete waste of time and energy, secondly, the Prime Minister, egged on by his Eurosceptic right-wingers, now seems to think it is a good idea, and, thirdly, he wants the public to pay...
Lynne Neagle: I would like to ask for a statement from the Minister for Health and Social Services on the sustainable social services grant, please. I'd also associate myself with the remarks made earlier by Leanne Wood; the learning disability helpline was funded by the sustainable social services grant. I've also received representations from the Wales Council of the Blind, who've had their funding cut...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, First Minister, and I share that disappointment about the vote last week. I was an Erasmus student. I, from a working-class home, from one of Wales's most deprived communities, who had never even had a family holiday abroad, was able to go and study at the University of Paris under the Erasmus programme, and have always been grateful for that opportunity. Continued participation...
Lynne Neagle: 4. Will the First Minister make a statement on the future of the Erasmus Plus programme? OAQ54932
Lynne Neagle: First Minister, the loss of every one of the 33 young people included in that review is an immense tragedy, which will have devastated families, schools, friends, and whole communities. I believe that review is the closest thing we have to hearing the voices of young people who have died by suicide; the nearest thing we have to retrospective recommendations from those young people about what...
Lynne Neagle: 2. How does the Welsh Government intend to respond to the recent review of deaths of children and young people by suicide or suspected suicide? OAQ54862
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, First Minister. Following our very well-supported cross-party debate on this, I was contacted last week by a lady who'd just had a diagnosis last week of pancreatic cancer, but had been told she would have to wait two months for surgery. She was upset and shocked by that. Her husband was understandably very angry and I really felt for both of them, because we know that pancreatic...
Lynne Neagle: 5. What discussions has the First Minister had with the Minister for Health and Social Services about reducing waiting times for surgery to treat pancreatic cancer? OAQ54849
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Minister. You referred in your earlier answer to Delyth Jewell to the dossier that was uncovered last week by the Labour Party. That dossier laid bare the fact that our NHS is very much up for sale in any UK-US trade talks. Do you share my concern that if Brexit goes ahead under a Tory Government, we will very much risk the commercialisation and marketisation of our NHS, and would...
