Hannah Blythyn: ...challenges and try and find collective solutions. It brings benefits to businesses, it brings benefits for Wales as well. On the point around the union from the world of work and going into schools, I think I've said before, maybe not in here, but unless you're a multimillionaire or you win the lottery, you're likely to spend a high proportion of your life at work, and young people are,...
Hannah Blythyn: ...existence to make sure that that innovation works for both business and communities, but also for individuals and workers as well. And just very finally, on the comments on the pilot programme in schools, yes, I really look forward to see what the outcome of the pilot programme is, and I was lucky enough, a while ago now, to visit a school—unfortunately, not in the Member's patch, but in...
Hannah Blythyn: ...campaigns to raise awareness of rights and responsibilities in the workplace, the unions and the world of work project has been developed in social partnership with trade unions, teachers and schools. Working with the Wales TUC, the project will support the delivery of careers and work-related experiences—CWRE—an integral part of the new Curriculum for Wales. Through the pilot, a range...
Hannah Blythyn: ...that. Because it's absolutely right that they have a say and a stake in the issues that affect them, and that's why—. The action plan has 46 actions in it, and there is a real focus on not just schools but youth settings and young people as well to make sure, as I said before, that they get that support in place. But I think the point that you made was really, really important, about...
Hannah Blythyn: ..., for standing your ground and doing the right thing, but I wouldn't expect anything else from you, Mike Hedges. That shadow of section 28 still hangs over us. It still hangs over many teachers and schools who are still nervous about wanting to do the right thing, but may feel nervous. That's why the education part of this action plan, and the work we're already doing with our inclusive...
Hannah Blythyn: ...I said before in this Chamber that, when I was growing up in Wales, I couldn't marry the person that I loved. I could get discriminated against in goods and services. I couldn't be talked about in school. So, we have come a long way, but I recognise that we have got a long way to go still, and this plan is just a step in doing that. The elements around hate crime in the action plan not...
Hannah Blythyn: ...to devolve the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and support our trans community, and preliminary work on this has already started. Work has also begun on developing guidance for local authorities and schools to support transgender children and young people, so that they can be confident and comfortable in supporting trans students in all aspects of school life. Dirprwy Lywydd, I must...
Hannah Blythyn: ...in practice. And can I also pass on my thanks and recognition to Ollie for speaking so candidly about this and sharing the experiences of young people, which, sadly, is still happening, not just in schools but in different settings across Wales? It makes me particularly sad, because I was bullied at school because—I think I've said in here before—other children saw something in me that...
Hannah Blythyn: ...reforms are finalised. Recommendation 13 asks the Welsh Government to hold discussions with the Office for National Statistics and the Charity Commission to determine whether making further education and higher education institutions and registered social landlords subject to the socially responsible public procurement duty would negatively impact on their national accounting status and/or...
Hannah Blythyn: ...year. This has allowed the service to maintain the provision of therapy across Wales, supporting veterans when they need it. We have also committed to continuing funding for the service children in education programme, and we've been supporting workshops on suicide prevention and delivering mental health first aid training. Most recently, we have funded a study into the experience of women...
Hannah Blythyn: .... And also, I've arranged for the commissioner to meet a number of my Government colleagues to understand better about those areas that are devolved in which we support veterans, such as health and education, and their families as well, and how we can work collaboratively and move forward, so that we make sure that we can build on the work that we've already done. And we look forward to...
Hannah Blythyn: ...it—going through the process, from reporting to making it being registered as a hate crime, but actually what's done about it in the future. Also, it goes back to what we're trying to do around education as well. And I keep reading over and over, too often, about other people that are experiencing similar things. It goes back to what we were saying about calling things out. I think there...
Hannah Blythyn: ...Pride events across Wales. We have already given support to Swansea Pride and North Wales Pride, and discussions are under way with Pride in the Port in Newport. We are enabling more inclusive education, with Welsh Government providing national guidance for schools by the end of this year to help them fully support transgender pupils. This is being done as part of the whole-school approach...
Hannah Blythyn: ...of legal advice to determine all the levers we have in Wales to end the practice of conversion therapy unilaterally. I want to know what we can do, not just what we can’t do. We will educate and raise awareness of the horrors and ineffectiveness of conversion therapy practices by establishing a dedicated campaign in Wales. The campaign will highlight existing support services for...
Hannah Blythyn: ...union can give you. And I allude to it in the statement that we want to do some work, working with the pilot project with the Wales TUC, to actually reach out to younger workers, young people in schools, actually, to talk to them about their rights and responsibilities, and the role that trade unions play in workplaces and communities in Wales. I do remember writing something many years...
Hannah Blythyn: ...attacks or just those remarks that make you feel that you can't be yourself and feel uncomfortable. I know that we are working very closely across Government with my colleague the Minister for education to ensure that not only are schools safe places and that children and young people have the support, but, actually, teachers and educators have the right resources and the confidence to...
Hannah Blythyn: ..., as a responsible Government, we very much work on a cross-Government basis. We do not operate in silos and we recognise that, actually, we work collectively, whether that be with the Minister for education, the Minister for Social Justice, with my colleagues in health, and right across the Welsh Government piece to make sure we work as a Government, as a collective, to make a difference...
Hannah Blythyn: ...for LGBTQ+ equality, from action to prohibit discrimination in goods and services to the end of the pernicious section 28 and equal marriage. In Wales alone, we are embedding LGBTQ+ inclusive education as part of the new curriculum. We have established a gender identity service to help our trans family to be their true selves. We became the first nation in the UK to offer pre-exposure...
Hannah Blythyn: ...the provisions. We believe that the legislative consent of the Senedd is required, as the majority of issues relating to support of the armed forces community in Wales are in the areas of health, education and housing that are in the scope of the Bill are within competence. I therefore believe it's right for Members to have a chance to debate this Bill and LCM and to have their say....
Hannah Blythyn: ...of Defence to develop a new family strategy for serving personnel, which will provide the support and information needed, whether it's advice on childcare support or support for children in education. Closer to home, we've invested £250,000 per year in Supporting Service Children in Education—SSCE Cymru—to provide advice and support for service children in Wales. Following a...
