Julie Morgan: ...and children with poor communication skills are more likely to be the target of abuse than other children. In January, in a short debate, I highlighted the abuse suffered by children at a special school for deaf children in Llandrindod Wells in the 1950s, where, sadly, it was the children with poor speech skills who were being targeted, and that issue is being pursued. But what mechanisms...
Julie Morgan: ...here in the Assembly on 11 July. One way of tackling the lack of awareness and stigma around hepatitis C is by using peer mentors, which have proved very successful. We also need a programme to educate other health professionals about hepatitis C, not just members of the public, because it’s very important that GPs pick up on the signals and recommend testing and refer people for...
Julie Morgan: ...in any way about the fact that we are global citizens and we live in a global world. I believe that everyone in every country has a right to clean water, enough food, basic healthcare and an education, and we have a commitment to ensure these human rights should become a reality for the world’s poor and the victims of tyranny and conflict. And of course, it is in our interest to promote...
Julie Morgan: ...that the police do is much less now than the community activities that they are involved with—working with older people, working with young people. Today, in the Children, Young People and Education Committee, we had evidence given to us by a person who was funded jointly by the police and jointly funded by public health. This is the way things are going—joint working together....
Julie Morgan: ...you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer, for calling me to speak in this debate on the impact on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller and minority ethnic children of merging former specialist grants into the education improvement grant. I am a member of the committee, so I’ve been able to take part in this inquiry. I’m going to concentrate my remarks on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller education, as I...
Julie Morgan: ...for asking this question is prompted by the apparent change of use of the parent and child suite to a meeting room. And when I’m talking, I'm talking about small children now, because I think the school-age children who come here in groups have a fantastic service in this Assembly. But the parent and child suite never really was a parent and child suite, because there never was anything...
Julie Morgan: ...my constituent would like to know from the Cabinet Secretary is: what practical measures are put in place to reinforce this message? Because I think the important issue about type 1 diabetes is education and awareness so that action can be taken swiftly. Simple things like posters, reminders, training events and maybe social media campaigns could perhaps be undertaken, and maybe are...
Julie Morgan: ...his personal commitment to seeing this through. I was reminded of the vulnerability of children when I had a short debate very recently on the alleged abuse in the 1950s in the Llandrindod Wells schools for the deaf because research by my constituent, Cedric Moon, revealed that young deaf boys had been abused by a housemaster. But this abuse was never brought to the attention of the...
Julie Morgan: ...for an initiative called Operation Close Pass that is taking place in north Wales and in cities in England, where plain-clothed police on bikes stop drivers who pass too close to cyclists and educate them about safe passing distances. So, would it be possible to have a debate about safety for cyclists, as they do make up 1 per cent of the traffic, yet I believe are 16 per cent of all...
Julie Morgan: 2. What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of the role of cover supervisors in secondary schools? OAQ(5)0105(EDU)
Julie Morgan: Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on support for deaf children in schools?
Julie Morgan: Last week I spoke at an event organised by the British Deaf Association to give deaf school pupils a taste of future careers and to help them to fulfil their absolute potential. This event coincided with British Sign Language Week. I wondered if it would be possible to have a statement from the Welsh Government about what their views are on making British Sign Language an official language....
Julie Morgan: ...than others is very long standing. It would be daft to try to claim that people moved from rural Ceredigion to Senghenydd in Hefin David’s constituency, as my grandparents did, because of the schools and hospitals and other infrastructure. They moved because of the coal mines. New coal mines opening up would be classed as population-creating industries, with schools, hospitals and the...
Julie Morgan: ...are absolutely crucial steps forward, and other Members have already referred to recommendation 3, which is absolutely key to enable smoking restrictions to be extended to early years childcare educational settings. It’s very pleasing that the Minister has said that that is something that she intends to do. I’d also like to draw attention to recommendation 5, which recommends ‘that...
Julie Morgan: .... I’d just like, finally, to end on a policy level, echoing what many people have said in this debate and the previous debate. I want to give a plea for meaningful sex and relationship education to be given in schools. As the Terrence Higgins Trust says, good-quality, age-appropriate LGBT-inclusive sex education should be available in all schools in Wales.
Julie Morgan: ...improvements that need to be made. I, along with many others, want to particularly mention recommendation 9 of the committee’s report in relation to teaching about healthy relationships in our schools. That was the one area that wasn’t really concluded in the Act and it was left for the review and for the Donaldson review to take this into account and see how it would be implemented....
Julie Morgan: Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. Thank you for calling me to speak in this very important debate about the report from the Children, Young People and Education Committee into youth work. I found it very concerning indeed to hear from people in the youth work field about how the provisions for young people have diminished so much. I personally believe, and I think it was the...
Julie Morgan: ...to improve sites, so I do feel that we are moving along in the right direction. However, there are some areas of concern. Mark Isherwood has already mentioned in his contribution the very low education achievement of Gypsy/Traveller children. In fact, it is staggeringly low—I think it’s about 15 per cent compared to 68 per cent of the average school population. So, we’ve got huge...
Julie Morgan: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The title of my debate is Righting the Wrongs—Historical Allegations relating to Pupils at the Royal Cambrian and Llandrindod Wells Residential Schools for Deaf Children. I have agreed, Deputy Presiding Officer, to give David Melding and Joyce Watson one minute each after my contribution. I was prompted to hold this debate as a result of my constituent,...
Julie Morgan: ...that the proposed levy is as high as it could be. Lastly, I would just like to mention the Daily Mile initiative, which has been mentioned here in this Chamber before and has been taken up by schools in the UK. Of course, one of the first ones to do this was in Scotland and I wondered if there are any examples in Wales. I couldn’t find any examples, but I hope the Minister will be able...
