Human rights

Lynne NeagleLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?'

…and non-teaching staff with as much help as possible, which is why we are working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on how we embed an understanding of the social model of disability in education services, and I will provide an update on our progress soon. But getting this right must be…

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Sioned WilliamsPlaid

13 November 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?'

…of the inquiry, and I have been following the work throughout. I am Plaid Cymru's spokesperson on children's rights, and I believe that children's rights are at the heart of this report. Wales is proud of the fact that we lead the way in considering children's rights when creating policies. The…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

13 November 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?'

…for patients—parents, I should say, sorry—of neurodiverse children, places are even harder to find. The children's commissioner said that there is very little specialised early years provision and that the gap is widely acknowledged. The complexities of children's needs are increasing and, on an…

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Buffy WilliamsLabour

13 November 2024, Plenary

Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?'

…we welcome the acknowledgement in your response to our report that more must be done to ensure that children’s rights to an education are being upheld consistently across Wales. But we do not feel that your response commits to a step change in the pace and scale of the action required to do so. Our…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24

…Welsh-medium education when parents want that to happen. And that's why the report jointly with the children's commissioner was important to us, and we know that that is taken very seriously by the Minister responsible. In terms of Siân Gwenllian's point, I'm happy to look at the point that Siân…

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Rhys ab OwenIndependent

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24

…clearer picture of what Welsh-medium learners need. I was pleased to see the collaboration between the Children’s Commissioner for Wales and the Welsh Language Commissioner, and that they concluded that a national taskforce was required to co-ordinate the campaign to improve the provision in…

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Heledd FychanPlaid

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24

…also to two very important reports: one on additional learning needs, published jointly with the children’s commissioner, and, secondly, a report on post-compulsory education and the Welsh language. You mentioned that there were actions that were taken in the wake of these reports, so could you…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2023-24

…from the outset in developing policy is so important. The work that she has done, jointly with the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, in terms of additional learning needs, has led to steps to support ALN provision through the medium of Welsh. The input of the commissioner, as we develop legislation…

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Jane HuttLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Diversity and inclusion for political parties

…meet with Cytûn. They met with Stonewall Cymru, WEN Wales, the Electoral Reform Society, Elect Her, the human rights advisory group. The Senedd political party panel—that's really important. That's facilitated by the Electoral Commission. I've met with them on more than one occasion, and, of course…

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Darren MillarConservative

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Diversity and inclusion for political parties

…such as faith groups, disability groups, although you'd had some engagement with Disability Wales, the older people's commissioner, young people's groups. All, again, seemed to be devoid of serious engagement—the sort of serious engagement that I would have hoped that the Welsh Government would try…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Anti-bullying Week: The mental health and well-being of learners

…regardless of all those differences. I said in response to Cefin how seriously we're taking the children's commissioner's report and recommendations, and you'll be aware that one of the recommendations she made was around recording incidents of racism. You've got to have data to change things, in my…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Anti-bullying Week: The mental health and well-being of learners

…review of the guidance will definitely take account of what we know are really worrying findings by the children's commissioner on racism. Obviously, as a Government, we're working on the 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan', which is being led by Jane Hutt. I went to school in the 1980s and we had very…

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Cefin CampbellPlaid

12 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Anti-bullying Week: The mental health and well-being of learners

…is also an issue that has unfortunately deteriorated over recent years. In a recent report by the children's commissioner on children's experiences of racism, a number of horrific experiences were shared by pupils from across Wales. In my region, for example, one young person said, and I quote, 'My…

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