Employability Programmes

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 1:34, 13 December 2017

Thank you very much, Rhianon. Absolutely. We are trying to work cross-departmentally. If you think that we've got a budget of about £15 billion, we need to make sure that every penny of that we use to the maximum, and working cross-departmentally makes absolute sense. What I've been doing is to meet independently and individually with different Ministers to make sure that they are concentrating on this agenda. So, I met with my colleague here last week to discuss how we can help, for example, in relation to care. A lot of people can't go back to work because they have caring responsibilities. So, how do we plait these things together to make sure that they're all connected and that we can get people back to work? This idea of cross-departmental work is something that is not just words; we are now getting down to the nitty-gritty of how that happens in practice.