, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. We'll hold you to that, then, Minister—'Nothing to be seen here.' Whenever a Minister says that, you think there's always something to be seen. [Laughter.] There we are. Minister, are you satisfied that regulations made under the creation power provided…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
As we've, actually, just talked about the draft affirmative procedure, do you think it would give the opportunity for sufficient scrutiny of the regulations made under the delegated powers given via the Bill, rather than via an Act of the Senedd? And has any…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. Do you—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Minister, we talked about this slightly earlier, but, to go a bit deeper, why is secondary legislation considered to be the appropriate mechanism for bringing forward the new procurement regime for health services in Wales? Did you consider…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
That probably leads me on to my final question, actually, about the new commission for tertiary education and research and how could they support care-experienced students. Is there anything that you could recommend to the commission in terms of creating a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Good afternoon. Just a final two questions from me. We've talked around best practice from around the rest of the United Kingdom. Was there anything you just want to add any more on that, because I know Scotland have got the minimum offer to care-experienced…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Diolch. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
Thank you very much. I have the million-dollar question, I'm afraid, and you can be as succinct as you want, because it's a direct question. So, what are the main things that you would change in the system to improve the lives of care-experienced children and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 11
I'm really interested in that figure, where you said that 73 per cent of that younger age bracket have got credit or struggling to cope. What are the bigger issues why people are in that bracket? Do you think it can be societal sometimes, that you feel…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Happy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Siân was eager to get in. Right.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
—and a one-person answer will be fine. So, just thinking about the universal basic income pilot that's been introduced, there were concerns raised at the time about how that would impact on care leavers. Could you explain, or one of you explain, how that's…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 10
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I've got two questions, if that's all right, but, in the interests of time, because it's quite nice to see there's no real divergence of opinion amongst the panel, unless you've got any real difference with somebody who's already answered…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Let's look at edge of care, for example, if edge of care is working for someone and it's proving to keep children out of being looked after and having care orders put against them—. Other authorities don't do that; would that be something that probably should…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Mine is just on the big changes that are needed. From what we've heard from evidence, there is disparity across Wales of level of service, level of intervention. Do you think it would be better to have—we've got the social services and well-being Act—a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
I've heard directly from a trainee social worker that, when they were training, they felt that they had work just dumped on top of them. They were inexperienced, and a senior social worker put a huge case load onto that person, and they didn't know where to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Okay. I'll move on then, Cadeirydd. One thing that we have heard through the inquiry was from social workers and people just the huge case load that social workers have. Do you or does your organisation have any practical solutions of how they can reduce case…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Do you think they should be strengthened? Because people can find a way out of those. I was a councillor; I know people can find their ways out of those things.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Do you think, when social workers, like you said, do their first couple of years' placements with local authorities, that there should be more, perhaps, strict rules around making social workers stay with those local authorities or within local authorities in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
I suppose with pay it's that vicious circle as well, isn't it, because people are always going to think on their feet if they can get more money, and then local social services departments need those people, so it just goes round and round and round. So, I do…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 9
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Thank you very much for coming today. What we're seeing from data is that, since 2018, I think it's 32.4 per cent of staff now are agency staff working within children's services. Do you know why social workers are choosing to work for…
