Child poverty

Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

12 July 2023, Plenary

Finance Committee Debate—The Welsh Government’s spending priorities for the 2024-25 budget

…services and lower levels of household income. We heard that community-led solutions are essential in tackling poverty and social inequality, but that it is these front-line organisations that are losing funding at a time when they are needed the most, and that funding for voluntary organisations in…

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Sioned WilliamsPlaid

12 July 2023, Plenary

Topical Questions

…is unfortunately not part of that agreement, but, if the Welsh Government is serious about tackling child poverty and food insecurity, it could prioritise the spending needed to ensure our most disadvantaged children's access to food. Yesterday, in answer to how the Government will support those who…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

11 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

Well, Dirprwy Lywydd, as I explained earlier, the food and fun scheme will reach more children this summer than last summer by thousands. The food and fun scheme only operates because of local authorities. The Welsh Local Government Association has been the lead in making sure that that scheme takes…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

11 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

And of course, the food and fun, the point around that is that it might not get to everybody who needs it, so it's something that needs to be looked at. And, obviously, the other issue around free school meal vouchers, the announcement coming with just three weeks to go, that was a worry as well.…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

11 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

Dirprwy Lywydd, this summer, a wide range of holiday projects will be available for children across Wales. We are providing nearly £6 million in funding to deliver the food and fun scheme, and the Playworks holiday project will be available in all 22 local authority areas for the first time.

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

11 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

8. How is the Government planning to alleviate child poverty in South Wales East over the school summer holidays? OQ59858

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Cefin CampbellPlaid

28 June 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities

…at 30 per cent, according to the latest Bevan Foundation data, it also has the second highest rate of child poverty of any local authority area in Wales. And as research shows, rural poverty is a distinct phenomenon, with different causes and consequences to those of urban areas and urban poverty.…

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Peter FoxConservative

28 June 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Rural communities

…in rural areas face a greater chance of being in poverty. If the Welsh Government is serious about tackling poverty in rural communities, we need to see a redoubling of efforts to tackle poor transport connectivity across rural Wales, and we also need to see modern infrastructure that allows rural…

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Joyce WatsonLabour

21 June 2023, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolution of justice and policing

…human right. The link between justice, access to justice and our core public services is a key to tackling poverty, social disadvantage and inequality, and that was mentioned just now. The Thomas commission—sorry about calling it the Thomas commission—found that spending per head on criminal legal…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

21 June 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Senedd Commission

…of the climate change committee. But I was also brought up to waste not, want not, and when we think of children living in poverty, to think that we would be wasting any extra food here would not sit with me comfortably, Jenny, so I'm really grateful to you for asking the question. As I say, there…

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Jane HuttLabour

21 June 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip

…important comments and, in your question, reflections on the opportunities we have now with this draft child poverty strategy, which I encourage Members to consult in their constituencies about, and consult on the opportunities that the strategy provides us, despite the fact that we are very…

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Luke FletcherPlaid

21 June 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip

…and brutally honest assessment of the state of the Welsh economy. Now, the 2022 progress report on the child poverty strategy alludes to the fact that children are at increased risk of poverty in households that are struggling to get into work. But, of course, we have had a scenario for quite some…

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