, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 4
Thank you. Just briefly as a follow-up, how confident are you that real change will happen? And then another question: are there any gaps in the data currently collected by local authorities and Welsh Government?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair. Are any of you involved with Welsh Government in shaping a radical reform of the system?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. Just briefly, are any of you involved in shaping the Welsh Government's plans for reform of the system, and what would be the single biggest thing that you would wish to change?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. Yes, I was just going to follow up on the call for a national list and a national map for foster carers. Does such a list exist in England or in Scotland?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you very much for that positive message for the people of Wrexham and the region. Wrexham AFC, of course, have been talking recently about a plan B, and the Welsh Government has already earmarked, I believe, £25 million to this project. Will you…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
2. What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that the UK Government's decision not to support the Wrexham Gateway project will have on the Welsh economy? OQ59032
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Thank you. Just one final question, actually. With regard to the Welsh Government's cross-Government group on eligibility for education food provision, should they be looking at making any additional decisions and taking any additional measures in relation to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Thank you. Steffan, can I just ask you about the campaign to get EMA increased by £5 a week? What do you think will happen? What do you think the Government's going to decide to do?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Thank you. It's really interesting what you both said about small amounts of money going a long way in preventing or stopping—or both—people from suffering from crisis point in regard to the cost-of-living crisis. Do you think, though, that the Government has…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Yes, thank you, Chair. I'm going to ask about wider cost-of-living support for households, and begin by asking both Peter and Luke how effective you think the Welsh Government is in supporting—beyond energy costs—households with the wider cost-of-living…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, I'd be very grateful for a statement on the status of the Wrexham Gateway project in light of the failure by the UK Government to support the scheme through the levelling-up bid process. This is a hugely important scheme for…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 7: Social partnership duty (Amendments 53, 96, 54, 97, 55)
Chair, Jane's just messaged me to say that her internet has just gone down.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: Social Partnership Council: political representatives (Amendments 13, 17, 19, 21, 26, 30, 33, 37, 51)
Thanks, Chair. Further to the comments made by Sarah Murphy, which I agree with, I'd also add that scrutiny of Welsh Government bodies takes place in the Senedd itself, through committee work and Siambr work, not in the bodies themselves, so I'd object to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 1: Social Partnership Council: chairing, meetings and procedure (Amendments 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 1, 43, 48)
Thank you, Chair. The SPC is a Welsh Government body. I know of no other Executive bodies that have chairs appointed by the Senedd, so it's entirely appropriate that the First Minister, or for that matter, any other Minister or Deputy Minister within the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Just one final question from me. Your paper refers to a comprehensive review of the national minimum allowance for foster and kinship carers to cover the full costs of children in their care. The review, I understand, was undertaken in 2020…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thanks, Chair. The Welsh Government’s budget improvement plan says that the invest-to-save fund is being refocused to concentrate programme for government commitments relating to improving outcomes for looked-after children, and you say that the first tranche…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thanks, Minister. You may be aware that we’re in the middle of taking evidence at the moment for our inquiry looking into the Welsh Government’s commitment to explore radical reform of the system for care-experienced children, and your budget paper refers to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
Thanks, Chair. Thanks, Ministers. I have some questions about safeguarding and care-experienced children, if I may. The Welsh Local Government Association and Barnardo's have both flagged up significant financial pressures on the children's social care…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Minister. Altaf.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Thank you. Last year you accepted our recommendation to commission and publish independent research to improve how the effectiveness and impact of preventative spend is measured. Are you able to give an update on the research, whether it was commissioned and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Thanks, Chair. Regarding health inequalities, we know how much impact good-quality affordable housing can have in terms of health and life chances, so can you tell us a little about how work takes place across Government departments to ensure that spend on…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Lovely. Thanks. I think Jane—yes, Jane's got a supplementary.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Yes, absolutely. And there's the national milestone of increasing the proportion of people who volunteer by 10 per cent by 2050. Are there allocations that you're able to point to that support volunteering and the work being done in trying to meet that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2023-24: ministerial evidence session
Thanks, Chair. It's good to see you, Ministers. Just on the voluntary sector, how do budget allocations support core funding for the third sector, given the cost-of-living pressures and the sky-high demand for services?
