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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you for the question.
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much for the question. Again, it's a very important question following up on Shav Taj's question. One of the clearest lessons, I think, that we can learn from the recent reviews that have been conducted is that we must improve in terms of…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Diolch yn fawr. Thank you for raising this really important question. The strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse, which runs until 2036, was published in March, alongside a three-year delivery plan. I just want to draw your attention…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Diolch. Work to implement the strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse continues. We are working with partners to strengthen prevention, improve early identification and response and enhance support for victim survivors. New arrangements…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Diolch. It's an extremely important point. The first Member legislative proposal that I won in the ballot after being elected in this place was on exactly that, on making sure that every £1 that is available to those families in need reaches their pockets as…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
We currently provide support for those in fuel crisis, as you know, through the discretionary assistance fund, and also through the support that has been given to the Fuel Bank Foundation to build their network in Wales. That includes enhanced support for…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you for the question.
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Diolch, Shav. Thank you for the question. The responsibility for this matter lies with my colleague the Cabinet Minister for Health and Social Care. I appreciate the link you're making with equality, but the specific responsibility for how health boards…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Yes. Something I'm working on currently with my colleague the Cabinet Minister for education is that benchmarking, because currently we don't do that well enough, so we are not able to measure the difference in Wales that having that early years education…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
I wouldn't really want to characterise this as the worst-case scenario. The whole point of the policy is trying to make sure that every family and child in Wales who wants to access funded childcare, to be helped with the cost of living, can do so. As we…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
We have to model 100 per cent, but, as I say, it does very much depend on demand. But that's the work that we're currently doing now with the expert steering group.
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
For the full expansion? I don't know if you mean for the full expansion—
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
As I said earlier on, as soon as we came into Government, I wrote to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions seeking that early engagement on Cynnal and setting out our wider ambitions around welfare and the Welsh benefits system. At the end of last…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you. They're very important points.
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much for the question. The task of the expert group will be to ensure that we plan this payment carefully. It is a pilot programme, so it won't reach every family in need in Wales, because that's the nature of a pilot, clearly. But this group…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much for that supplementary question. The first meeting of the expert group that I mentioned will be held next week, and I know that this is one of the issues that we will discuss. At that expert group, we have academics and front-line…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much for the question. Delivering on our first 100 days commitment, I have established an expert group to support the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the Cynnal pilot. The group brings together expertise from across the sector to…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much, Jane Dodds, for that question. I agree entirely with your analysis in terms of the emphasis, or lack of emphasis, that some parties in this Chamber have placed on this totally transformational and important policy. So, I share your…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you very much. Thank you for the question. The workforce, as I've already said, are at the heart of these plans that we have for childcare. Expanding childcare in terms of the provision that we currently have is entirely dependent on that capacity, on…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Diolch, Sarah. Do you know, I am so glad to be discussing childcare almost every time I am speaking in this Chamber, almost every time that I'm interviewed on the media. I certainly talk about it a lot in the community, and did so on the doorsteps of…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you. Well, you've identified there that we need to do this work in a phased manner, and that's what we've been clear about from the outset. You're right to underline that the commitment that the previous Government made to providing childcare places…
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Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice
Thank you. This Government will introduce a transformational universal childcare offer. Work is under way to review capacity in the sector and to develop detailed staff projections as we look to the future. I'm working closely with the expert steering group…
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Questions to the First Minister
Me, this morning.
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Short Debate: From legal clarity to practical reality: Implementing women’s sex-based rights in Wales
Thank you very much, Llywydd, and thank you for the opportunity to respond to this short debate. This is an important and sensitive matter. It relates to the rights of women, and also the rights of transgender people, and the Government has a responsibility…
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Reform UK Debate: Childcare offer
So, we're clear about our ambition, but it's not a small adjustment. It delivers a fundamental shift in how childcare is accessed and delivered. And so our focus is firmly on putting the plans we have into action as quickly as possible. That's why I've…
