<p>Child Poverty in South Wales West</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:42 pm on 14 September 2016.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:42, 14 September 2016

Confidence and appropriate skills to help people join the workforce, of course, are key to tackling child poverty, and it’s important that children grow up in an environment that values their talents and their aptitudes and that helps them to develop those in order to expand their own horizons. But the adults in the lives of some of these children themselves may need some help to help create that environment. I appreciate that there will be some crossover with one of your colleagues here, but community-based learning is a very important part of helping adults to create that environment. Would you agree with me that some of the courses that are offered in the community could contain elements, such as how to manage budgets and how to set up and market businesses and developing Welsh-language skills, not just as separate subjects, but as part of those basic skills training that you tend to get in community-based learning courses?