7. Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Update on Ukraine

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:17 pm on 17 May 2022.

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Photo of Peter Fox Peter Fox Conservative 5:17, 17 May 2022

Can I thank you, Minister, for your statement? It was very welcome. Thank you for your commitment to this cause. I know you're doing a huge amount in this regard. You've answered some of my key questions, which were about education and screening. They were captured well and I thank you for the deeper understanding of the situation we seem to be facing. But I am having constituents who are contacting me quite often now about some of these concerns. There seems to be, perhaps, a lack of communication back to them to help them understand why some of these things might be happening. Perhaps that's an area, together with the education Minister, that you could look at—trying to articulate better for those people who are helping to look after those children. I had one constituent who has had a Ukrainian child with them now for a month. They've gone through all of the screening and they have a place in school, but they're still unable to access school for some reason—again, a communication issue, I'm sure. But, Minister, you've answered my questions around screening and why the difference between primary and secondary. I thank you for that and thank you for the work that's going on.