11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. I was just about to ask about those extra burdens of, of course, tracking whether everyone has taken up the offer, and also to measure the outcomes. That also could possibly fall on the schools. But it also could be done by the local authorities…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
I completely agree with what you said. The opportunity is there within the new curriculum, but the worry is that there'll be 22 different interpretations of the curriculum, at the very least. I'm talking just about local authority areas, not the clusters and…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you, Chair. A lot of mine have been answered anyway, but I just wanted to carry on from what you've just said now. I completely concur with what Mr Parry and James Evans just said: those pupils are the focus, the children we want to be focusing on. I…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Yes. here could be a requirement to have black this, that and another and no labels. We already do that in school settings, don't we, saying 'We don't want you to have any labels on any clothing.' So, there's that way of looking at it. And, obviously, they're…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Just to add that some of the evidence we've had so far is that the centres themselves said they provide an awful lot of clothing and things like that themselves, including coats and things, to sort of try and be that leveller, so that everyone is using the…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
We've had lots of evidence back from learners as well saying that they enjoy the independence and that experience that they wouldn't normally get in a lot of families at the end of junior school sort of age; so, perhaps that is a good time.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Can I concur with what you just said? Obviously, it comes to priorities, and we have to think about core education and providing for that. But, apparently, there's going to be direct money from the Welsh Government to ensure that that's the case, so this…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Can I just ask? You all mention that a lot is being done already, but, obviously, cuts are being made across the board within our local authorities now, due to the pressures that they're under. An example of this has been £70,000 being taken away from…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes. Thank you.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes, thank you. Can I just follow on from that? You were just saying earlier about expanding that Flying Start provision. What we've heard in evidence is that it doesn't matter what background you're from, how much money you earn, we're seeing that speech and…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Just following on from what James Evans just said about additional learning needs and the rise, of course, in the numbers of young children presenting with speech and language problems, particularly at an early age, and coming into school now, post pandemic…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Just talking about prevention and cross-portfolio impacts, to what extent are you concerned that, in the long term, your social care portfolio will bear the brunt of the real-terms funding reductions in other Cabinet portfolios, for example, the static…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Deputy Minister. During scrutiny of the draft budget 2023-24, you repeatedly told us that there'd be no reductions to funding in relation to children and young people's budgets, and that expenditure had been maintained for them, yet this year we…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Excellent. Thank you, Deputy Minister.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Okay. Brilliant. And have you made detailed assessments for all the third sector and other providers that provide those vital services for children of the impact of the budget?
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Given the significant role that you've just outlined that the third sector plays, obviously, with children and children's services, can I just confirm, then, that you both have made detailed assessments of the impact of the 2024-25 budget on them, and you're…
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Okay, great.
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Okay. On voluntary sector funding, can you offer assurances in the current financial climate, and is there anything practical that you can do to improve the stability and address the short-term nature of funding for the children’s sector?
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Absolutely. Will you be keeping an eye on what local authorities are doing across the 22 different local authorities?
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
But there's no guarantee, is there, Minister, that that money, given the significant pressures that the Minister outlined earlier on the NHS, will get to those services, those children's front-line services?
11 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Cyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru 2024-25 - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Chair. Ministers, the Welsh Local Government Association has warned that it’s only a matter of time before a Welsh local authority goes bankrupt. Its written evidence says that £41 million of the current year's £219 million overspend is directly…
10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Tlodi plant a chyrhaeddiad addysgol
Do, ac mae'n werth ei ddweud eto, Ddirprwy Weinidog. A hoffech chi wneud ymyriad ar ganlyniadau PISA? Efallai y dylech fod yn dawel felly, a gwrando. Mae'r Gweinidog wedi beio COVID am y canlyniad hwn, ac eto nid oedd rhannau eraill o'r DU mor ddrwg, a bu'n…
10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Tlodi plant a chyrhaeddiad addysgol
Rydych chi'n lwcus nad yw'n glymblaid. Un pwynt allweddol yn y ddadl heddiw na ddylid ei anwybyddu yw'r bwlch cyrhaeddiad addysgol sy'n cynyddu'n barhaus yma yng Nghymru. Cadarnhaodd Sefydliad Joseph Rowntree yn ei adroddiad yn 2013 fod perfformiad addysgol…
10 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Plaid Cymru: Tlodi plant a chyrhaeddiad addysgol
Meddai'r Dirprwy Weinidog. Un pwynt allweddol yn y ddadl hon na ddylid ei anwybyddu yw'r bwlch cyrhaeddiad addysgol sy'n cynyddu'n barhaus yng Nghymru. Cadarnhaodd Sefydliad Joseph Rowntree—[Torri ar draws.]
