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Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Welsh Benefits System and Charter
… gratifying to see the work that the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee did with organisations like the Bevan Foundation—to see that coming to fruition and progressing through the Welsh Government and the co-operation agreement …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Welsh Benefits System and Charter
… summer 2024, what terms of reference, targets and timescales have you set the external steering group? The Bevan Foundation states that it's eager to ensure that the Welsh Government delivers on its commitment to establish a Welsh …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Welsh Benefits System and Charter
… set of principles underpinning the design and delivery of Welsh benefits. I would also like to thank the Bevan Foundation and their partners, including Policy in Practice, for the series of research papers they have produced …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… wait for your statement before you can share the detail with us. And, as you indicate, the Bevan Foundation have been raising this for years, as have multiple other organisations, and this was captured in the evidence …
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… Welsh benefits system, and whether you will have any targets in place to measure progress. The Bevan Foundation states that it's eager to ensure that the Welsh Government delivers on its commitment to establish a Welsh benefits …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
… recommendations and did some important work in this area, including the need for a Welsh benefits system. The Bevan Foundation itself has done some very good work, I think, in supporting that and explaining the value in terms …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
… out free school meals, increase the take-up of Healthy Start vouchers'—I think that came from the Bevan Foundation. Isn't it good to hear from Lynne Neagle, the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
… ensure the current policies aren't undermined. In its recently published report on the Welsh benefits system, the Bevan Foundation used the school essentials grant as an example of this. Only requiring schools to have regard to the …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
… that more than one in five children are living in poverty in every local authority in Wales. The Bevan Foundation stated that this shows, quote, 'minimal progress has been made in reducing child poverty over the past decade …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
… poverty strategy, so it's emerged as a result of all the work we've been doing. The Bevan Foundation, Policy in Practice—I'm sure that they're going to be welcoming this today as well, because …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
… taking the time of people on the front line to steer through these complex systems. I heard the Bevan Foundation talking in a webinar last week that it can take two hours to go through one form. Well …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
… the Bevan Foundation has been talking about having a system in place, haven't they, not a charter specifically, but you've taken the step of creating the charter. Now, given it's a non-statutory charter, and …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
… could just ask one brief question on the Welsh benefits charter. Now, what the Bevan Foundation has been talking about is a smooth-running system, rather than the charter itself—. Now, given that the—. Everything okay, Minister …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
… some more questions about the cost-of-living support measures. So, to begin with, Victoria Winckler of the Bevan Foundation told the Finance Committee that it is hard to see how the report of the expert group …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Yes, similarly with the Bevan Foundation, and, also, I'm a trustee of a foodbank—Pantry Foodbank in Pontardawe …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
… think you mentioned the Bevan Foundation, and I pay a sponsorship fee towards them …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
… are many factors needed for securing a path towards adequate housing, including fair rents and affordability, and the Bevan Foundation and many others have always said that increasing the provision of social housing is vital …
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Debate: Levelling-up
… that this disagreement could overshadow discussions over the effectiveness of spend and whether the investment is, as the Bevan Foundation put it, adequate to the scale of need. So, let's talk about the effectiveness of spend and …
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Questions to the First Minister
… read last week that millions of pounds of this kind of support are going unclaimed in Wales. The Bevan Foundation say that around £73 million per annum is left unclaimed, perhaps because of a lack of awareness that …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Child poverty and educational attainment
… difficult to hear you mention additional infrastructure costs, because that is something that they say, and the Bevan Foundation say, would not cause a problem on the same scale in secondary schools as it has in primary schools …