, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Brilliant, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 14
Thank you, Minister. Good to see you today. I would agree with your last comment on the support being available until 25. Actually, I'd prefer it to be until they're ready to let go and feel ready to go into the real world. The question I wanted to ask you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Good. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. I'm just going on the data that we've got, obviously. The latest data on the use of agency social workers is from 2018 and showed that 32.4 per cent of whole-time equivalent vacancies in children's services were filled by agency workers. Care…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Thank you. Jayne started my questioning off nicely there. But following on from what Jayne said already, one of the biggest and most fundamental things that we've heard from people so far is that disruption that constant changes and frequent changes in social…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Sorry.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Okay, thanks.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Yes, just really quickly, sorry. We all don't want it to happen, but if something bad happened in those situations—we've heard of cases where people are feeling unsafe in certain surroundings, with other people sharing those places that they're staying—where…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Okay, thank you. Thanks, all.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Okay, thanks, Sally.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
What about—? We've heard a lot about training for people who have those responsibilities. Would you offer training to those unregistered carers, if they're willing to accept it, on how to deal with things like mental health and all that sort of thing that the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 13
Just on that, how do you—? What extra—? Oh, God, I can hear myself. What extra safeguards are you putting in place to ensure that those children are safe in those environments if that is the last resort and there is nothing else that can be done?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: The roads review
Thank you to Natasha Asghar for bringing this debate to the Senedd today in the name of Darren Millar. I’ve said it before—and many of my colleagues have, multiple times—that a decent road and transport infrastructure is the absolute key to a vibrant economy…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you, Minister, and we welcome that expansion of it, because at the moment, there is a postcode lottery when it comes to Flying Start, and there are severe pockets of deprivation in rural areas that are seen as affluent, such as Monmouthshire, and that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you, Minister. In Wales, degree apprenticeships are still in their pilot phase, and still only available in IT, engineering and advanced manufacturing. In Scotland, they offer far more. In England, they offer over 100 degree apprenticeships. This…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
9. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to increase apprenticeship opportunities? OQ59224
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Will the Minister acknowledge that there is a real-terms and cash cut in education in your budget this year? And will you also acknowledge that, with you putting the money that is designated for education not solely into the education budget but putting it…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Thank you. And whose fault do you think it is that the Welsh Government are cutting the education budget in cash, in real terms? Do you think it's Brexit, or is it a political decision? It's clearly a political decision. You're showing Wales today that the…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Thank you. I think I wasn't down to speak, but I will speak, because I think it's very important that I do speak on education. I can't believe that Plaid Cymru just stood up and said that they were going to support a budget that is, in real terms, cutting…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
And finally, are there any challenges caused by cross-border movement of students to university, particularly given the ongoing role of the home local authority in supporting care-experienced young people up to the aged 25?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
That’s great. And following on from that, in what concrete ways could higher education providers work more effectively with other services, as was mentioned earlier—schools, local authorities—to create that more joined-up approach to higher education for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Could I just add, just as a supplementary on what you—I can't remember your name, sorry—just said? Hannah, was it? Just to ask you, on the care package that was mentioned, for example, and those examples of best practice—as you just said, the small things—how…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
That's great, thank you—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 12
Thank you, Chair. What are Welsh universities currently doing to improve outcomes for care-experienced young people, and can you share any examples of good practice with us, please?
