, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
That was also on my agenda with Lord Timpson last week, when I met him, the MOU for probation. Because I visited greater Manchester, when we saw that this was a route-map, I would say, a route, to devolution of probation in Wales, and we felt the MOU approach…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, thank you, Jane. Of course, just looking at the numbers, there are 800 registered speech and language therapists in Wales. It is difficult there in terms of prioritising their role. I've mentioned early years, Flying Start—crucially important. And we're…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch yn fawr, Jane. I did give quite an extensive response in my evidence to the committee on this, on the speech, language and communication needs, particularly in the youth justice system. I think what's important now is that officials—and, of course…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
A timeline is what we need, in the next few weeks, of when the centre will open. It's actually already costing money. It's costing money to the UK Government, so it's absolutely in their interest. I'll just make the quick point again, Chair, that the UK…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, that he's coming back to me as soon as possible on the way forward.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, I pressed him on the point, the timing. I also pressed him in terms of are there any issues that we can help to resolve in terms of management of the centre. He did refer to the centre—and I'm sure he perhaps did when he came to give evidence to this…
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General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you for that question. The residential women's centre, as I think I've already said, was on my agenda on Wednesday when I met with Lord Timpson, and I'm continually pressing for an update on this, as you are, and I've had questions in the Senedd, which…
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General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, I would like to comment at this point that we very much value the work that's been done by Dr Rob Jones, and the fact that we have been working very closely with him, looking at and working with him to respond to the fact files he's produced, which…
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General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you very much, Altaf. I know, in my evidence paper, in the annex, I have responded to give an update on all of the committee reports, and the women's experiences in the criminal justice system is really important. I did say in my evidence report that…
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General ministerial scrutiny: session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
And also Riaz Hassan, head of the ARWAP team.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Do you want us to leave?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
That would be a question for local government, because we still do need to provide that emergency support, there's no question about it, through local government, to foodbanks. But I think it does vary across Wales; we can't say that one size fits all. And I…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
We, obviously, are looking at the impact of our objectives, with the community food partnerships. Local government, as you know, when they get the funding, they don't like—. I mean, we try and give them as much leeway as possible to respond to local needs…
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Yes, I'd have thought so. I hope you'll see that the letter I wrote to you on 20 January does cover quite a few of these points.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
I will bring Claire in here, but I do think you know we are talking about the providers here, and the providers from local government are Trussell Trust, the foodbanks and some of those local initiatives that we've been talking about. But in terms of…
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, I think I've probably answered that question in the sense that the money we provide goes to local authorities. We don't have criteria or eligibility. It is tackling food poverty, but it's basically up to the WLGA and local authorities to decide how they…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Yes, I think both Huw Irranca-Davies and I visited FareShare recently. We fund them. I think the evidence that you've got on FareShare speaks for itself, doesn't it, in terms of how they are enabling people to access fresh food. I think one of the great…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Yes, and the Trussell Trust, as we've said, want to be out of business. They want people to be able to be sustained without turning to foodbanks. It does make a difference to people who are struggling, and it can be for a short period of time—a change of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you. I mean, that does go back to, perhaps, earlier points that I've made about the funding that we've put into directly tackling food poverty. I think it's important to say that funding goes to local authorities via the Welsh Local Government…
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Yes. Diolch yn fawr. It clearly is a national issue too.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Good. Right.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
That's a really important point, because we do want to—. The 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' delivery plan is up until 2027. I mean, Keith, did you have anything to add?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Well, I think the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' delivery plan is a route to that. So, obviously, you've had that evidence, which is really useful, but again it goes back to us influencing our local health boards, our local authorities, and our local…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Diolch yn fawr, Jane. Of course, this is where it's a truly cross-Government issue, and it is for planning. This is certainly something—. I mean, I don't know, Keith, whether you've got anything more to add in terms of acknowledgement of that issue and real…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Food and fun—I mean, Julie did the work on food and fun. That, in the school holidays, is crucially important in primary schools.
