Vaughan Gething: ...NHS bodies and local authorities to conduct a joint investigation into concerns raised under the NHS complaints procedure and under the social services complaints procedure regulations. That does not cover the large number of social services complaints made by children under the Representations Procedures (Wales) Regulations 2014, nor does it take account of complaints that are made...
Vaughan Gething: Can I just refer to amendment 42(6)? 'As soon as reasonably practicable, the recipient of the representation must publish the response prepared under subsection (4) on their website'. That leaves no room for any discretion whatsoever; the word 'must' in this drafting is very clear and unambiguous.
Vaughan Gething: Thank you, Llywydd. All of the amendments in this group relate to representations being made by the citizen voice body and the response that should be provided to them, but they, of course, have different permutations. And I do want to make clear again that, despite the language being used, refusing to agree to amendments 42 or 77 are not examples or evidence of bad faith, or a deliberate...
Caroline Jones: ...citizen voice body must be heard. The community health councils have been an effective champion for Welsh patients, in part, because of their right to be heard. Public bodies have to take notice of representations made by CHCs. The amendments tabled by Angela and Rhun extend this duty to the citizen voice body. If this new body is to be our voice, public bodies should have to listen to...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Our amendments here specify that not only should Welsh Ministers be able to be recipients of representation by the CVB, as is proposed by the Conservatives, but that if they do receive representation the Government then has to provide a response. So, I would ask the Conservatives to perhaps look at ours as an improvement on their amendment—or at the very least, if your amendments fall, that...
Angela Burns: ...Helen Mary Jones with my full support. It's in line with committee recommendation 13 at Stage 1. During our evidence sessions, it became very apparent that the body should be able to make representations to Welsh Ministers as this would enable the body to become actively involved in and influence the design of future health and care systems in particular. The board of community health...
Group 14: Citizen Voice Body — representations to public bodies (Amendments 41, 76, 1, 42, 77)
Elin Jones: This brings us to group 14, which relates to representations to public bodies by the citizen voice body. The lead amendment in this group is amendment 41, I call on Angela Burns to move the amendment and speak to the other amendments in the group. Angela Burns.
Caroline Jones: ...would be lost by scrapping the CHCs and replacing them with a small national body with an office in Cardiff, for example. If the new body is to truly be the voice of the citizens it has to have representation in all parts of Wales and be accessible to everybody, regardless of where they live in Wales.
Angela Burns: ...very sad and demoralising situations within the NHS—. That initial legislation, when it first came in, as introduced by your Cabinet colleague Kirsty Williams, was groundbreaking. But we've done nothing to build on it, and we've done nothing to really take it forward. Now this supports a recommendation in the health committee. This was a recommendation where we took an awful lot of...
Rebecca Evans: Again, thank you to Dai Lloyd for raising this particular issue. I will certainly explore it myself to better understand the issue. I know that you'll also be making those important representations to the Home Office in respect of their deportation processes and so on, but I'll certainly gather some further information.
David Rowlands: ...are closed courts, including the exclusion of journalists, means there is no independent scrutiny of the judicial procedures. There are also many obstacles for families in securing good legal representation as there may be conflicts of interests where large practices are often engaged on local authority business. The removal of a child from its natural parents is a traumatic event, both...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...be raised with the UK Government, because this will come back for future bidding rounds. In that case, we need to make the case that rugby has a different pedigree and tradition in Wales. It was not born out of public schools, it was born out of mining communities, all the way back to its inception in Wales. In the 1970s, the teams that played had lawyers and doctors alongside colliers who...
Mark Isherwood: ...authorities derives from the relative change of overall population and school-age populations across each local authority area, an analysis of the latest published official statistics for each does not paint a clear picture in this respect for either. The local government Minister also states that the division of the local government settlement between local authorities is done by the...
Rebecca Evans: I recall, in response to your representations to the Minister on this particular issue, that she was happy to come to the Rhondda to undertake a visit. I know that she's already been to Rhondda Cynon Taf more widely on two occasions, and Members right across the Government have been visiting and speaking to people who are quite understandably completely distressed by the flooding. I've spoken...
Mick Antoniw: ...any manifesto or policy proposal in the Welsh Assembly; and their presence in this Chamber is, effectively, an unforeseen consequence of an electoral system that was intended to broaden democratic representation, but has, in my view, been abused to subvert its real democratic objective. And you have to ask what is the real purpose of this motion. Well, I think it is an opportunist attempt...
Jeremy Miles: ...is a high figure. The reasons she outlines in her question for her concern are exactly the same reasons that lay behind my concern, and which is why I and others in the Government have made these representations directly to the Migration Advisory Committee. What we had hoped was that the version of the immigration policy that the UK Government brought forward would take into fuller regard...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...iawn. Minister, there's been real and understandable anger at the crude label of 'low skilled' that the UK Government has now levelled at people such as social workers, when we know that they're not low skilled, they are low paid, and you simply cannot put a value on the precious human qualities of compassion and care. How would he respond to Dr Moira Fraser-Pearce, the director of policy...
David Lloyd: ...and has fallen foul of the UK Government's points-based immigration system as a result. Now, Wales relies on the EU social care professionals, as it is, in an already overstretched system. So, what representations are you making about social care in Wales post Brexit?
Jeremy Miles: Well, the meeting I had earlier this week with a range of stakeholders around Wales and Home Office officials, included representation from the Welsh Local Government Association. Most recently, we've made funding available to each local authority to support their efforts in addition to the Wales-wide efforts that we are making, so that local authorities have the capacity to do it themselves...
