Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 1 February 2017.
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for his reply. He knows that I’ve drawn to his attention in the past some examples of very good practice in Mid and West Wales that stand outside some of the Communities First and Government-supported things, and there are some good things happening in the third sector and in the voluntary sector. I met with Jig-So, which is a project in Cardigan, a couple of weeks ago. It’s a long-standing project that works across boundaries, which often means it falls between two stools in terms of support from local authorities, being in Carmarthenshire, north Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. It works around a crèche provision, training for parents, parenting, cooking skills and young people’s support in general. Is the Cabinet Secretary prepared, or are his officials prepared, to look at projects like Jig-So? Because they feel they’ve got something different and special to offer the concept of children’s zones outside the one that the public sector tends to approach it upon?