Motion NDM7197 as amended:

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Welcomes the Ministerial Advisory Group’s first Annual Report of the Improving Outcomes for Children programme.

2. Acknowledges that the increase in the number of children taken into care is the result of a number of complex factors, including intergenerational poverty and austerity.

3. Calls for the re-engineering of the system to focus resources on prevention to protect children and improve their outcomes.

4. Calls on the Welsh Government to avoid the use of binding targets to reduce the number of children taken into care.