Jenny Rathbone: ...team being developed in Swansea, which is taking the load off Cardiff, which, until now, has been the only secondary and tertiary unit in Wales. The specialist endo nurses are improving the education of GPs and gynaecologists, so that women no longer have to wait an average eight years to even get diagnosed. For many women, endo dominates their lives and, on the EndoMarch last Sunday, I...
Jenny Rathbone: ..., and who'd obviously enjoyed the rest of their lives in Wales. At the same time, there was somebody outside the windows of the Neuadd promoting disinformation about relationships and sexuality education, which was very unfortunate, in all sorts of ways. There was nothing that anybody could have done about it at the time, but it was just not good. I suppose there should have been some...
Jenny Rathbone: ...because a lot of people don't understand why they're suffering the way they are with their periods, because people who work here today won't have had the benefit of the relationships and sexuality education that we're now giving to young people.
Jenny Rathbone: ...of accommodation, or they'll just be on the street. Given they've been here for 18 months since the Afghan withdrawal, there's clearly concern that people will be in jobs, they'll have children in school. So, how is the Welsh Government able to ensure that these people are provided with suitable housing offers to not disrupt the links they've already made, and prevent them from becoming...
Jenny Rathbone: ...issue in that six in 10 people never cook from scratch, so this goes well beyond people who are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. I noticed that your nearly £5 million investment in the school holiday enrichment programme, and I wondered what consideration you've given to teaching young people and their families to cook during those summer holiday programmes, because there...
Jenny Rathbone: ...not going to be able to. Their rotas are going to have to change to accommodate whatever still exists of bus services. Equally, the other huge, massive issue in my constituency is the cost of school transport. Children are not attending school because even those on free school meals are having to pay £400 for the privilege of going to school if they live too far away to realistically...
Jenny Rathbone: ...should be condemned as not fit for human habitation. I absolutely welcome the civil penalties that you will be able to put on people who are in idling stationary vehicles, particularly outside schools. I don't think this is quite such a big issue around hospitals, but if it is, then obviously it's just as reprehensible there. But it has to be part of a culture of ensuring that people are...
Jenny Rathbone: ...have to apply the precautionary approach. But I think, at the same time, we shouldn't be throwing the baby out with the bath water. In advance of this debate, I did consult one of the secondary schools in my constituency and asked about this, because I simply didn't know how much this was being used or what attitude I should be taking. So, it was very useful to hear that they indeed use...
Jenny Rathbone: ...is what could happen, because there's no shortage of multinational suppliers who would like to do that. So, the food security issues, we've all rehearsed recently. There's a shortage of chefs in schools. We are not going to be able to afford this in the long term unless the money that we are investing in school meals is also staying in local economies, with local businesses, rather than...
Jenny Rathbone: ...it inexplicable that local authorities aren't on this case because it's going to enrich their local economy, their local shops, their local businesses, and make their lives just a lot easier. Free school meals. Yes, it's great that we're putting £70 million into free school meals in the next year, I absolutely agree with Llyr Gruffydd, but we should not underestimate the challenge that...
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you very much indeed for your interesting report on a very important subject. I think too often in the past the primary purpose of the school system was to maximise the numbers of people who achieved five A to Cs, including English and Maths. I think it's called the capped score in the jargon. But this takes no account of the complexity and challenge of pupils' lives and their ability...
Jenny Rathbone: ...keen to ensure that the BBC for Wales and the west country was going to have a much more relaxed tone than what was broadcast from London. Though he fully subscribed to the Reithian principles of 'educate, entertain and inform,' he wanted them to take place in the same programme, not in silos. So, talks were billed as chats; London had Children's Hour, but Wales had The Hour of the...
Jenny Rathbone: ...ability of a family to be able to buy food that nourishes their families, rather than junk food that can kill them? So, we really do need to ensure that every front-line worker, whether it's the school administrator, the caretaker, or whether it's those busy health and social workers—it's absolutely essential. I was astonished to hear Peter Fox say that the basic income pilot for care...
Jenny Rathbone: ...sector in Wales, but it really isn't enough. And given the significant loss of public money to the foundational economy, and the major implications it has for our ambitious universal free school meals programme, with a third of a child's meal needing to be vegetables and fruit to enable them to grow and learn, in light of these budgetary and policy implications for all your Ministers on...
Jenny Rathbone: I agree with the words of Lord Mann that tackling antisemitism goes beyond education about the Holocaust. However, it would be a mistake for us to think that there is not still an enormous job of work to be done to describe exactly what happened during the Holocaust and the things that were then subsequently suppressed. There was a deliberate policy after the second world war of drawing a...
Jenny Rathbone: ...that local authorities are using, as the rise in food prices is far higher than the 1.65 uplift local authority budgets are getting in total, and there's also a world shortage of chefs, not just in schools, but in restaurants and cafes across the UK. There seem to be three main models of delivery. Ynys Môn, maybe among others, have outsourced their catering provision to private...
Jenny Rathbone: 7. What financial assessment has the Minister made of local authorities' approach to investing in school catering? OQ58952
Jenny Rathbone: Thank you very much for your leadership on this in ensuring that all new projects are going to have to be zero carbon. I'm particularly interested to find out how South Point Primary School in the Vale of Glamorgan is sharing the learning from this project, or rather the Vale of Glamorgan Council or your officers, to ensure that we understand the strengths and weaknesses of this pathfinder...
Jenny Rathbone: ...who are overweight or obese drink no alcohol at all. Obviously, that is not the case when it comes to the one in four children in Wales who are overweight or obese by the time they start primary school. It has to be because of what they are given to eat. I have yet to meet a breast-fed baby who is overweight. So, increasing breast-feeding would reduce the number of babies and toddlers who...
Jenny Rathbone: ...sub-committee has given to measures to eliminate food poverty, building on the experience of the Well-Fed organisation, over and above, of course, the really important initiative to provide free school meals to all primary school pupils. Secondly, on the lack of uptake by some people of these vouchers for energy, whether they are from the UK Government or from the Welsh Government, one of...
