Child poverty

Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

9 July 2024, Plenary

Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme

…and May 2026: securing economic development based on ambitious targets; a real strategy for tackling child poverty—again, with measurable targets; a sovereign wealth fund for Wales, which ensures that revenue from our natural resources is retained and invested here in Wales. We often hear, Dirprwy…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Translated from WelshOfficial Record

Rhun ap IorwerthPlaid

9 July 2024, Plenary

Statement by the First Minister: The Legislative Programme

…case at Westminster for fair funding for Wales's fair share from HS2, and also for measures to combat child poverty and to secure further devolution, including of the Crown Estate. But as I say, what's conspicuous in this legislative agenda that we've heard being outlined today is what's missing.…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Vaughan GethingLabour

9 July 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…the country, reviewing what the UK Government could and should do to turn the tide on the increase in child poverty that we've seen over the last 14 years, will make a major difference in child health outcomes. And, more than that, we will, of course, work with a number of coalitions around making…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Luke FletcherPlaid

8 July 2024, Petitions Committee

New Petitions

…process of this Parliament. So, I'd be really keen to hear their views. We also know that we've got the child poverty strategy coming through from Welsh Government, so I was wondering if we can keep this petition open until that child poverty strategy comes through. I would hope that this petition…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Vaughan GethingLabour

2 July 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…best to try to take the heat out of what the Tories have done to us. And yet we know there are more children living in poverty now, because of direct choices made in Downing Street. It shows that the choices at these elections do matter. I'm proud that Welsh Labour candidates are standing on a…

Tagged for: “children living in poverty”, “child poverty”Official Record

Heledd FychanPlaid

26 June 2024, Plenary

Debate on Petition P-06-1437, 'Increase, don’t cut, funding for the National Library, Amgueddfa Cymru and the Royal Commission'

…elitist by the day at a time when they could be transformational—transformational in terms of tackling child poverty, transformational for our economy. You have our support, Cabinet Secretary, in fighting for that funding that's necessary, but we do need to have a serious conversation and stop…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Lesley GriffithsLabour

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

No member of the Welsh Government is happy with the levels of child poverty that we have at the current time, but we do have to face facts that many of the levers do sit with the UK Government and that, up until 2010, when the Tories came in, we did have a significant drop in the number of children…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Gareth DaviesConservative

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

The Welsh Government has consistently blamed the UK Government policies for the levels of child poverty here in Wales, which has been criticised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who highlighted that many child poverty reduction measures are within the Welsh Government's powers, and, aside from the…

Tagged for: “child poverty”, “children living in poverty”Official Record

Lesley GriffithsLabour

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

…brought forward are very helpful in helping us to tackle poverty. And you're right, it's not just about child poverty; it's about tackling poverty, because we know children live in poverty because their parents also live in poverty. I'm due to have a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Education…

Tagged for: “child poverty”, “tackling poverty”Official Record

John GriffithsLabour

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

Cabinet Secretary, a recent meeting of the cross-party groups on poverty and child poverty heard work from the Bevan Foundation with regard to research they've undertaken in Wales that showed that 29 per cent of our children live in relative poverty, and one of the real issues is that they're unable…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record

Lesley GriffithsLabour

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

…those conversations, but I'm far more hopeful that we will be able to achieve far more in relation to tackling poverty if we do have a UK Labour Government.

Tagged for: “tackling poverty”Official Record

Cefin CampbellPlaid

26 June 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice

Diolch. I think it's generally agreed that this Labour Welsh Government's record on tackling child poverty is a poor one. Indeed, my colleague Sioned Williams has reminded us already today of your Government's systematic failure to get to grips with this. Instead of working harder to meet targets…

Tagged for: “child poverty”Official Record