I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate, and Plaid Cymru will be supporting the motion, because it's crucial that we protect and promote the rights of children in Wales, and we cannot cut any corners while doing so. We know that children in Wales are particularly socioeconomically disadvantaged as we have the highest child poverty rate of any UK nation. The children's commissioner has called child poverty the Welsh Government's biggest challenge. This is not, however, a new challenge, although we know that the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of regulations have often made it difficult for many children and young people to realise the rights they are entitled to. The challenge of which the children's commissioner and many children's organisations in Wales speak has, of course, been exacerbated by the austerity imposed on our nation by consecutive Tory Governments, but there is also the ineffectiveness of the Welsh Government to tackle child poverty.