Housing Provision for Vulnerable Children

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 6 November 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:13, 6 November 2018

The problem is the lack of devolution, because, of course, secure welfare provision is currently managed on an England-and-Wales basis through a network of 15 secure children's homes. We do look to work with the UK Government's Department for Education and the Ministry of Justice as to how best to reconfigure youth justice provision, but this is another example of why justice needs to be devolved, to avoid a situation where we are entirely dependent on departments in London to provide services in Wales. And that is something, certainly, that I'm sure will be a matter for discussion over the next few years.