Disabled people's rights

Julie MorganLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Assisted dying

…the idea that it is a slippery slope, and it will extend to people with lack of mental capacity or disabled people, for example. I absolutely respect those views, and I think those fears must be addressed, but I do believe it is possible to provide strong legal and medical safeguards. We must ensure…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

23 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

…conditions are set by the legislation that must be met in order to have access to the funding, but many disabled people with restricted mobility do not meet every condition. For patients with rare conditions who only meet some of the conditions, they find accessing the funding for the correct…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

23 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…that the work that local government should be doing in engagement with representative groups and with disabled people themselves is really important in terms of identifying those particular parts within the community that need to be addressed through investment or, often, some relatively simple…

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Russell GeorgeConservative

22 October 2024, Plenary

& 9. The general principles of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill

…staffing shortages in social care. Just bear with me a moment. Yes. Okay. We also heard directly from disabled people and other stakeholders about the difficulties in recruiting and retaining personal assistants, so we'd recommend that the Minister works with her Cabinet colleagues and wider…

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Jane HuttLabour

22 October 2024, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…for Social Justice, that this is for me as well in terms of accessibility, working very closely with disabled people in our disability rights taskforce with the travel group, working closely with Transport for Wales. So, again, we will look into this as a joint, cross-Government issue.

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…programme, so that in-work support that covers mental health and musculoskeletal, if you've got a learning disability, you're not going to be supported by that particular programme. There are your eligibility criteria that are stopping someone getting a service.

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…internships and so on. Sometimes, we create our own targets against things. Our relationship with Learning Disability Wales and Engage to Change, we base that in terms of what we had as our own expectations, both Agoriad and ELITE, and you see the outcomes from that in the various evaluations that…

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Arthur Beechey

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…can really either promote or destroy somebody's employment aspirations. But I think just to see people, disabled people, in terms of charity shops or food, filth and flowers opportunities, that isn't right. And what I would say on that is there is a great lesson to be learned in Ysbyty Gwynedd that…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…courses for young people who were not academic and may have had undiagnosed learning difficulties and learning disabilities at that time. And that vocational training, between the ages of 14 to 16, were a lifeline to a lot of young people moving into employment. That stopped, which I don't think was…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…self-employment—and I come from a family of self-employed people—is that one of the challenges that disabled people who have chosen self-employment face is that they'll get support from Business Wales, for instance, but then they can't get support from Access to Work if they want to start their…

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Julie MorganLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

Thank you. We were told earlier this afternoon that many disabled people become self-employed because they can't get a job where they're not self-employed. I don't know whether you've got any views on that.

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Julie MorganLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

Thank you. And one last question from me: what about self-employment? We have heard, during the evidence, that that is something disabled people may prefer because of the flexibility that's involved. What is your view of that, and do you think there is enough support for people who want to be…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…train up, because what we have to do is allay concerns and fears that employers have around employing disabled people, and approaching those misconceptions in a very, very positive way and providing case studies where that's not the case. They simply are misconceptions. And then, that work, where…

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