14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Do you know that, Albert?
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Social Care Wales's 2022 report suggests a vacancy rate in social work teams of approximately 17 per cent, and this figure includes all roles, not just qualified social workers. This is collated and shared with us on an annual basis, and we've explored and…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
And that's absolutely what we want, is the better outcomes for young people, but we don't think a cap is a feasible way of doing this. And as I said, I think the nursing situation is different, and we want to approach it in a way that ensures we've got the…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
The reason we rejected that recommendation is the request to legislate a cap on case loads. We don't really feel that social work compares in the same way to nursing, because activities within a nursing environment and a social work environment aren't really…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
The other thing I'd just like to mention as well is, through Social Care Wales, we've got this 'grow your own' scheme, which supports paid employment and funded social work training. There were estimated about 140 'grow your own' students for 2023-24 within…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Did you want to answer?
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Yes. I think it's important to say that it will take the whole of the social work course before we see those people actually arriving.
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Well, that's definitely a clear theme, I think, amongst young people about the fact that changes to the social worker destroy any relationship that's been built up, and I think you did have quite distressing descriptions of how social workers left without…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Well, I think we're very keen to look at all the experiences that young people have. So, as I've said before, young people have talked to us about their experiences before they came into care and before they became care experienced, and things that they think…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Oh, absolutely, yes.
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
I think it's really important that we really take on board what they feel and, obviously, I assume that the young people that spoke to you felt that they did want this as a protected characteristic, but we've had young people speaking to us who felt…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
I think it would depend on what conclusion we reached when we've had the further discussions with the young people.
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Well, as you know, the Equality Act is outside our legislative competence, so anything we did on this would be lobbying, as you say. But we are aware that there are different views about this. We have been told by care-experienced children—some…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
—a five-year period in terms of actual time. There is only a set time that you can bring legislation. And every Government brings forward its programme for government, and that's what you work to, and that's what we're doing. I don't know, Albert, whether you…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
No, what I'm saying is that there is a set time during which you can deliver legislation—
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Albert has just said what we're doing about the practice framework, and that has nothing to do with—. We don't have to have a law to do that. There's a huge amount that can be done without law, but obviously I do understand the fact that the committee wants…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Albert, yes. I'm sorry—
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
I wouldn't say it was just, 'Oh, it's just the communication hasn't been right.' I think it's caused more reflection than that, but I think it did reinforce the fact that we do need to communicate more. But in a way, I suppose it was the choice of the…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Well, thank you very much, Ken, for that question. And it was certainly not my intention to suggest that eliminating profit is the only thing that is going to deliver radical reform. And I'm absolutely clear that that is not the case. That is just one of the…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Yes, because I think to say that we've rejected 22 is not correct.
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Thank you, Laura, for that. I don't think that I have to really reiterate that I have listened to children ever since I've had this job, and I've listened to children basically all my life, so, I'm not going to get into a position of having to defend that…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
We've reflected hugely on what's the committee said, and I can absolutely assure you that your work on this has made us look at all our work again. And certainly—. No, I would have said it has made us reflect on it all, and we have—. I mean, I think what I…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
I want to assure all the care-experienced young people who are here and who are listening in to the session of the absolute commitment of the Welsh Government to transform children's services in Wales. I want to pay tribute, really, to their courage in…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
That evidence was very powerful, very important evidence, and the lived experience of care-experienced children and young people is at the heart of everything that we're planning to do. That's why we worked very closely with Voices from Care to organise the…
14 Medi 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gwasanaethau i blant sydd â phrofiad o ofal: trafod diwygio radical - sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog
Thank you very much for the question. First, firmly, to place on the record, I welcome this report. It shares our ambition to transform children's services in Wales, and it aligns with our children and young people's plan. We share your passion and young…
