9. Plaid Cymru debate: Child poverty

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:14 pm on 16 May 2018.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 6:14, 16 May 2018

(Translated)

Llyr Huws Gruffydd talked of deficient communication skills that emerge in the education system if people don't get the same opportunities, with 60 per cent of young people in the justice system having communication problems. That's why we as a party say that we need the powers here in Wales, in order to deal with that situation.

In the context of childcare, we've heard again on the equalities committee that this should be a universal offer for parents, because when it starts at the age of three or four, parents will have lost the opportunity to go back to work. That is the basis for our view in that regard.