, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
I want to start by asking some questions about priority action notices. Now I know that, when your colleague inspectors, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, issue an immediate assurance and improvement notice, it doesn’t always get attention, but, when it affects…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Thank you. Prynhawn da.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
I'll stop there and I'll resist the temptation to give anecdotes about my own life as a parent. [Laughter.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
And there's a danger, isn't there, that it sounds like lecturing, not helping?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
You're going to want to keep people with you, because part of the challenge is that, for a lot of those interventions, there will be a group of people who will say, 'This is the Government telling me what to do with my life—why on earth should you make these…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
I would be interested in how you're looking to implement measures in the framework you've got, but also the evaluation of it to understand the impact of those. And the final question from me is just to pick up on what you said about being frightened about the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
But the final question from me is about obesity—a really significant challenge for the whole country. I can’t understand from the draft budget whether you’ve allocated money specifically to address childhood obesity, and, again, how much of this is about…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
I think that would be very interesting for the committee, to understand the work that Public Health Wales have done, your response, and your assessment of what’s behavioural and what’s systemic, and, again, how money can and can’t help that, and what else you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
One of the things I’m interested in is vaccine take-up, because, overall, you’re right, the level across Wales is good, and, in lots of areas, better than in England, for a number of different reasons. But the inequality that exists—. And every time there is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
The draft budget obviously doesn’t tell us what you expect that to deliver, or why the £2 million figure has been chosen. So, could you tell us how those funds have been allocated, why the £2 million figure has been chosen, what particular vaccination…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
And I’m interested in how the data then leads to better services, and how the money flows to deliver those, or indeed, a better organisation. I won’t get into how you save money, or whether you just spend money more efficiently—I’m sure Hywel could talk to us…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Because you're right, the NHS collects lots and lots of data, but the use of it and how you expect that to improve outcomes, and again how the budget helps you to do that, would be of real interest in the updates from the clinical lead.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Well, again, I think the committee will be interested in what that work delivers.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Great. And then you mentioned new opportunities and different ways of working. There's a point here about investing in infrastructure and, again, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have made a specific call for better utilisation of child…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
And will that review of the workforce be published and available? I'm sure the committee would be interested, not just to see what they say, but then what the response from you as a Cabinet Secretary is, and how that goes into what you're looking to do, both…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
And the next point is about the workforce. Because, in most of what we say, you need a workforce to deliver it, and we know there are challenges in the workforce. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health have called for a review of the child health…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
And I'm still interested in how you measure wider outcomes in developmental delays and impacts on children, and how you expect changes in waiting times to make a difference to those wider—. And, again, how you measure them and how you understand them. The…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
So, it'd be useful, given you've mentioned the impact you expect the clinical lead to have, once that work has been done, for the committee to be informed, not just about the work in discursive terms, but what you expect the impact of that work to be. And…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Thank you. Bore da, Cadeirydd; bore da, pawb—good to see you all. My questions are directed at the Cabinet Secretary around children's health early intervention and prevention. You touched on this a little earlier about the additional money the overall…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The case for leaseholder reform in Wales
The links between developers, freeholders, estate managers and, indeed, commission from building insurers are regular complaints that I receive from leaseholders in my constituency. It is not always clear what service charge is being levied or, especially…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The case for leaseholder reform in Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. There is cross-party consensus that leasehold reform is an area that is long overdue. Much of the public reporting on leasehold has, understandably, focused on fire safety, poor building quality, the cost of remediation and the very…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for the answer. I certainly hope that the summit is a success. Wales actually has a good story and a good offer in a number of areas in the economy, from life sciences to renewable energy, fintech, cyber security, and, of course, high-value…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
8. Will the First Minister make a statement on the proposed investment summit to be held later this year? OQ62063
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes.
, Petitions Committee
Updates to previous petitions
Yes. So, this one again raises a specific subset of transport for younger people, for comprehensive children, and in particular the issue around the guidance on 2.5 miles that most of us would have received correspondence on at some point in time, often with…
