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...
Peter Fox: ...to some and large wads of cake to others. That is morally wrong. We need to do something to change that, moving forward. Mike was quite right, and I touched on some of that in my opening about school balances and other elements of the reserves. Mike's also right that we need to understand how the SSA, the standard spending assessment, is built, so that we can challenge it and analyse it...
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.
Heledd Fychan: ..., and we've seen the superb opportunities that exist for our children and young people and how they and we benefit from these visits. But one of the things that's concerned to me in speaking to schools in my region, and considering that South Wales Central is that region, is that more and more say that the cost of buses specifically does mean that they are perhaps bringing the school...
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...
Jane Hutt: ...is very intergenerational, and it is supported, of course, by our county voluntary councils in the way that I've described. But also we will look—and I'll certainly look with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language—at ways in which we can particularly learn from those examples. Just to note that this is something where you will be recognising that children and young people are...
Jane Hutt: ...£100 million in childcare in Wales a year already. Our childcare offer provides 30 hours of funded childcare a week for up to 48 weeks a year for three and four-year-olds. Parents in training and education get help with childcare costs, and we're already rolling out high-quality childcare to two-year-olds across Wales through our Flying Start programme. And funded childcare is supporting,...
Jane Hutt: ...substantially our discretionary assistance fund, and also, as you say, it's as a result of part of our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru, the fact that we have those commitments for primary school pupils of free school meals that have rolled out. Can I just also say that it's really important that it's extending to free school meal holiday provision, being available now for children...
...care capacity in the community, upscale existing good practice, and capture all loved ones, including children; c) ensure that workforce and funding decisions prioritise the wellbeing, staffing, education and training needs of those working across the full spectrum of palliative and end-of-life care.
Mabon ap Gwynfor: ...and understand the proposed legislation is entirely unacceptable. The purpose of devolution, as weak as it is, is to give us the power to set policy in specific areas here in Wales, such as health, education, the environment and housing. Transferring those powers back to Westminster is contrary to the will of the people of Wales. It is entirely unacceptable. This Westminster legislation...
Heledd Fychan: ...but that the issue of resources and that we don't have the necessary materials, particularly in Welsh, is a concern for them. Certainly, from some of the visits that I've undertaken to Welsh schools in my region recently, I've seen teachers who are delighted by the new curriculum, but also are spending a great deal of time translating materials in the evenings and during holiday times, to...
Jeremy Miles: The Member makes a series of very important points. She talked about the importance of children's own experience of schools, and I think that listening and the hearing of the voices of young people in this is very, very important. The £40 million capital that I announced recently is intended to enable schools to make the kinds of adaptations that schools sometimes do—to fence off areas, to...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...all of the services available through pharmacies and so on. I'd like to hear from the Minister about the kind of investment that the Government is making or considering in order to tackle that educational challenge, which clearly needs to be overcome, because it's only if people understand the different ways that they can access health services will they start to take advantage of those...
Vaughan Gething: ...just the opportunities to generate low-carbon power, but the jobs that should come from that as well. So, we'll build on that work, and the work that we have already set out with further and higher education providers. One of the things that businesses are already doing is looking at where they think there are gaps and opportunities and the skills base of where they are, as well as a...
Lesley Griffiths: ...yesterday—I don't know if Members will have picked it up on social media—was doing a significant piece of work on a farm in the Vale of Glamorgan, and he's very happy to go anywhere to help educate people in relation to responsible dog ownership, something that I obviously publicise as well. I'm continuing to have discussions with my UK Government counterparts to see what legislation...
Mark Drakeford: ...definition of antisemitism. We don’t intend to pursue this through the funding route to which Darren Millar referred, but this is how we intend to take that conversation further forward: higher education institutions in Wales have an obligation to carry out their functions in full recognition of their obligations under their public sector equality duty. We are to carry out a review of...
Mark Drakeford: ...statement here on the floor of the Senedd practical action that is being taken to increase the provision of NHS dentistry for children, including the pilot that the Minister set out in secondary schools—a pilot being carried out in north Wales in the first instance, and we hope, if it is successful, to be able to do more of that elsewhere. In Powys, to which Jane Dodds referred directly,...
Lee Waters: ...to continue funding the emergency subsidy at the rate that we have. We've already spent over £100 million a year subsidising privatised companies to run buses. On top of that, a quarter of the education budget is spent on school transport. So, there are significant sums of public money going into private companies into a broken model, that has not delivered us the system that we need. And...
Samuel Kurtz: I'm grateful to the Member for intervening. I can imagine that the autumn budget released extra, additional funding for both education and the health service, by the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, last October. But we are here to debate health services here in Wales. We are elected by the people here in Wales to sit in a Welsh Parliament. I recently spoke—[Interruption.] Well, I'm very happy to...
