Jenny Rathbone: ...courage of its convictions in facing down some of the vested interests with out-of-date concepts to ensure that we are going to ensure that every child is going to have relationship and sexuality education, to ensure that they understand how their body works and what are appropriate relationships. I think that the small amount of money we've put into period dignity has ensured that every...
Jenny Rathbone: ...are potentially still having to move around every 12 months, if you've got a landlord who's completely taking this to the letter of the law, and that's obviously hugely disruptive to any child's education. So, I wondered if you could just clarify whether it will be possible to differentiate between somebody who's letting out their sole property or somebody who's letting out a property they...
Jenny Rathbone: ...children's lungs. It's something that's beyond the power of the nursery providers, because they simply don't have the resources to move. But it is ironic that, right next door to it, is a primary school where parents insist on picking up their children by car, because that is their right, and they are adding to an already unacceptable problem. I find that it's not only in that particular...
Jenny Rathbone: ...care. I've just been reading the draft plan that has arisen out of 'A Healthier Wales', which has been written by the social care workforce as well as HEIW, which encompasses the deanery, the education and development services, and the pharmacists. So, I think it's very important that we have a workforce programme that really is going to join up the dots between these two services, and I...
Jenny Rathbone: ...the destruction and murder of the Roma and Sinti, which was spoken about by Isaac Blake. He embraced the memorial stone project that was also brought to the Senedd two weeks ago, and organised for schools to take part in that creative project so that they could be part of the permanent memorial in Westminster. He told me yesterday that several schools had turned down the opportunity to...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you. I completely endorse your approach to relationship and sexuality education, making it compulsory, because in the context of the most advantaged, least deprived secondary school in my constituency, these phones are a major problem. Because they have the police in every single week trying to explain to young people, if they're sharing compromising photographs on their phones, it is...
Jenny Rathbone: ...puberty, this can become a major issue. The report that we did with the Children and Young People Committee in the fourth Assembly told us how complex that is. But we need to ensure that all schools are taking this agenda seriously. Some schools do absolutely brilliantly, and other schools think that it is somebody else's problem. I think I'd like to highlight the report that came out from...
Jenny Rathbone: ...police are classifying Extinction Rebellion as an extremist organisation, putting it on a par with far-right or religious extremists. So, can the Welsh Government confirm that it will instruct schools not to refer young people who are concerned about the climate emergency to the discredited Prevent programme as if they were a security risk, because I think this is absolutely the opposite...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you. Minister, you'll be fully aware that there is increasing demand for Welsh-medium education at primary and secondary level, and, in light of that rising trend, I wondered what consideration the Government has given to making a further leap in bilingualism amongst monolingual English-speaking communities by ensuring that the expanded childcare offer, which was primarily in the medium...
Jenny Rathbone: I just wanted to ask you whether you've also read the Samaritans' report, which is about the role that schools can play in preventing suicide, because I think that's an excellent report as well on the well-being agenda.
Jenny Rathbone: ...we can all agree on. It's also in the Liberal Democrats' manifesto as well. Not repeating what other people have already said, picking up on Jayne Bryant's point about the lack of hedges around schools to protect them from air pollution, can we therefore ensure that all local authorities are stopping the indiscriminate spraying of pesticides around school perimeters, because that makes...
Jenny Rathbone: ...whether or not he intends to include, as a matter of priority, (a) restrictions on price promotions on high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt foods, and (b) a restriction on hot food takeaways near schools.
Jenny Rathbone: .... So, that doesn't actually resolve the problem. The disabled are exempt in the Nottingham scheme, and I would expect, obviously, that disabled parking would be exempt in the new one. Now, the school run was mentioned, I think by Llyr. There are some schools in my constituency where they're using a very restricted playground area for parking staff cars. We have lost sight of what we're...
Jenny Rathbone: ...has been in the vanguard on ensuring that local businesses get a fair chance at bidding for local contracts. For example, there's a dairy producer that started off by just procuring to two or three schools and is now delivering services to five local authorities and a health board. And so, it seems to me that these are great examples of what can be done but that we're quite a long way from...
Jenny Rathbone: 2. What progress has the Welsh Government made in reshaping public procurement to enable more fresh food for schools, hospitals and nursing homes to be procured locally? OAQ54723
Jenny Rathbone: ...taking part in elections, I agree that that is really serious, but I think that lowering the age to 16 is going to increase the numbers taking part, because 16-year-olds are still in compulsory education and therefore there will be a huge opportunity to explain to everybody just what is at stake here and why they should be taking part in these important elections.
Jenny Rathbone: ...want to know—the baby born next week: how are they going to be protected from the marketing of unhealthy products masquerading as food? We know that less than three quarters of children starting school have a healthy weight. What is that figure going to be in 2022? We absolutely have to have a whole-system approach; this is not just the Minister for health's department. I want to see...
Jenny Rathbone: ...I've got a constituent with an enduring physical disability whose parents are very keen to ensure that their daughter lives as active a life as possible, and this requires them taking her to after-school activities by car, as she would have great difficulty getting her wheelchair on and off a bus and then navigating her way to the venue of the activity. The narrow street where she lives is...
Jenny Rathbone: So, sticking with that argument, are you then prepared to discuss reducing the budget for health in order to put more money into education?
Jenny Rathbone: I think we need to hear from the education Minister. I think it's very important that we have set what's called the level 2 plus benchmark—that we need all pupils to achieve five GCSEs where possible, including language and maths. I think that's absolutely right. You can see how, in previous years, when that wasn't the benchmark, there was less attention placed on the language and maths. I...
