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Group 3: Data on use of BSL and monitoring (Amendments 3, 11)
This is the last time I'll be speaking, so I too would like to pay tribute to Mark Isherwood for his commitment and persistence in making sure that this Bill gets over the line. I too have learned an enormous amount about BSL children and BSL adults, and I…
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Group 2: Targets for Teachers and Assessors of BSL (Amendment 2)
I welcome this amendment, which does strengthen the importance of making sure that there are enough interpreters in the pipeline. To move from level 1, which is a complete beginner, to become a registered BSL interpreter at level 6, is obviously quite a long…
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Group 1: BSL: National adviser, advisory panel and complaints (Amendments 1, 14, 10, 12, 13, 15)
The children's commissioner, when she gave evidence, was very clear, both in what she said and in body language, that it was not about creating a parallel system, that children who use BSL have to be treated no differently to any other child whose rights need…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Okay. Thank you very much. At this stage, Ken Skates, I wondered if you could tell us whether Mark Barry's assessment that the projects that are outlined as being the most immediate ones will cost more than the £300 million that remains from what was promised…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Ken, I just wondered—
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. But in the short term, what we have is a commitment to push ahead with the south Wales metro lines that are incomplete at the moment. For my constituents, that is incredibly important, because at the moment there…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The rail network
Thank you to Plaid for bringing this debate, because we definitely need to understand a bit better exactly what money is on the table and what isn't. So, I do congratulate Eluned Morgan and the Cabinet Secretary for transport on putting together a package…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I'm not competing on the figures, Cabinet Secretary, and I'm sure it's really difficult to understand exactly what's going on, but I just wanted to raise the difficult cliff edge that exists as a result of the shared prosperity fund, which is 30 per cent…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay. So, you're satisfied that the system you're putting in place is actually going to improve the identification of postnatal depression. Because, clearly, this is one of the most devastating things, for both the mother and the child.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Yes, I did, if you don't mind. The national evaluation of Flying Start highlighted that there was a need for clearer and more consistent procedures for assessing postnatal depression, and I wondered how the arrangements you're putting in place are going to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Absolutely. Okay. Just briefly, there's a lot of emphasis being put, in Plenary and elsewhere, on expanding the childcare aspect of Flying Start and there's some reflection of concern in that national evaluation of Flying Start that it's undermining the other…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
—and they need other people too.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Because the health visitor can’t do everything all the time—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay. So, when I visited a stay and play in St Mellons, which had breastfeeding support attached to it, I was hearing stories about health visitors who were just going round and round in their cars, knocking on the door, not getting entry because people…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
But even so, it's incredibly low and quite disturbing.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay. So, are you suggesting that these outreach visits are not counted in the number of visits?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
So, we're expanding the Flying Start—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
I do know what Flying Start is.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
What do you mean by outreach?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
All right. I haven't read that report. Moving on to Flying Start, I find it really difficult to understand how health visitor contact levels have fallen to a record low of 2.9 visits that a particular child will have contact with a health visitor in a single…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay. So, moving away from doctors, health visitors and midwives also are in short supply. You know, we always need more of them, and we definitely need more of them for different reasons, which we don't go into here. But how many of them have assistants who…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay. But I go back to my challenge about prudent healthcare. Are the people who are seeing the child and their parents qualified sufficiently to see that child, but no more? You know, you don't need a fully fledged consultant paediatrician to make that first…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you. I want to just look at the paediatric workforce. The Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health says that there's chronic underinvestment in community child health in their report published last June. In your evidence, you talk about three…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Appointment of temporary Chair
I second Carolyn.
, Plenary
Group 3: Remediation (Amendments 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 30, 62, 63)
I commend the work of those who've been involved in these amendments, because it is absolutely essential that people have remediation if they buy a property in good faith without realising defects that are hidden because they haven't been properly inspected…
