20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Thank you. This is my last question, Chair.
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
I think that's a very fair reflection, then, because ALN is essentially the same definition as SEN, isn't it, and what you've just said, there are going to be discrepancies in everyone's school policies and practices, if they can't understand it themselves…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
So, do you believe that the challenges facing the introduction of the new system are solely about the implementation, or do you think there are deeper difficulties that have origins in the design and wording of the Act and then the code?
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
I'll follow on from that. So, from what you observe and the tribunal observes, do you consider that all local authority policies and practices are fully compliant with the law, then?
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
You could always write to us about those views.
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Bore da. Sorry I can't be with you this morning. Diolch, Cadeirydd. I wish I was there in person, but unfortunately I can't be with you today. You say in your foreword to the tribunal's 2022-23 annual report that the Welsh Government has been clear that any…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Okay. I'll leave it there, then, Cadeirydd. I don't think I'm going to get the answer I want.
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Sorry, Chair, but I'm going to keep pushing this, because I'd like to get a definitive answer. Do you think the Welsh Government need to be taking the lead role in this?
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
I'll come on to that in a second, but there's one thing I did want to pick up on there. You said it was all of the above coming around the table to make it work. I don't dispute that, but I've seen from my time in local government, my time here in the Senedd…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
I couldn't disagree with what you're saying at all—we need to make sure this is right—but one organisation somewhere has got to be ultimately responsible, surely, for turning this situation around. We're letting young people and young children down across…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Okay. That's good. It will be interesting to see what the response will be when the report comes out. One of the most fundamental things we have heard about, from reports that we have done since the inception of this committee in this Senedd term, is the huge…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
That's right. Just on that, what input are you having with the Welsh Government on this, because obviously they're probably going to take a keen interest in this piece of work as well? Obviously, things might change in the coming weeks, with new Ministers…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
I want to talk about infrastructure—other services and the workforce now. So, Care Inspectorate Wales has recently launched a joint review with Health Inspectorate Wales and Estyn examining how healthcare, education and children’s services in Wales are…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
It's not ideal for the child, and it shouldn't be done, I don't think, anywhere, but what I'm interested in is: you are the regulator here, what are you doing to try and stop local authorities from doing this? You're the ones supposed to be regulating this…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
What do you think the implications of that are, within your most recent report, where you stated: 'In Wales, unlike England, the majority of services operating without registration are being directly provided by local authorities themselves, not by…
20 March 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Diolch, Cadeirydd. My first question to you is: how many care-experienced children in Wales are currently living in unregistered placements?
19 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, disused metal mines can be a danger to public health and our waterways if they're not managed correctly. But, with the correct management and restoration, disused metal mines can also have great potential for a focus for educational and…
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Why don't you go and speak to them, Mike, like the farmers you call over?
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, I'm back again this week asking for another urgent statement on the workplace recycling scheme that's being implemented by the Welsh Government. I've met with countless businesses and waste operators right across Wales who say to me that the scheme…
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I always think that rural development starts with rural growth, and my colleague Sam Kurtz and the cross-party group on rural growth generated their report last week on growth in the rural economy, which he's showing a lovely prop for there…
5 March 2024 , Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 9: Vacant seats that cannot be filled in accordance with new section 11 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (to be inserted by section 9 of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill) (Amendments 29, 30, 33, 34, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123)
What analysis have you done around whether, if the parliamentary arithmetic changed and it created paralysis in the Senedd, that could, effectively, render the Government unable to pass any legislation due to a vacancy arising? Is that something that you've…
5 March 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2024-25
Do you not realise that a lot of people out in the constituency that I represent, Brecon and Radnor—when you keep talking about the funding settlement from the UK Government—are extremely annoyed with the way the Welsh Government spends its budget, when they…
5 March 2024 , Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2024-25
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I move the amendments tabled in the name of my colleague, Darren Millar. I'd like to begin by thanking the Deputy Minister for your statement today and by acknowledging the work of councillors and council staff, right…
5 March 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer, and thank you very much for allowing me to sit down; I didn't really want to fall over. Minister, I would like to add my weight to Darren Millar asking for a statement on the new waste recycling rules. I've been inundated by…
5 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I want to see Welsh democracy develop, and this Senedd become the best it can be to represent the people of Wales. First Minister, you believe that increasing the Members in this place will increase scrutiny; I respectfully disagree with you…
