, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you very much. My next question: funding to the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol has been increased this year, but last year there was a reduction. Do you think that the reduction last year and the increase this year, even though that is to be welcomed…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Thank you. I'm going to ask my next questions in Welsh. The draft budget does provide around £1.5 million additionally to support increasing and widening participation in post-16 education, including widening access to the Seren programme. You know that I…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Fine, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Yes, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
I'm interested as well in the point that you made about the school improvement partnerships taking over from the old consortia. Could you maybe clarify whether there's a budget line to support that, because, obviously, it will have financial obligations on…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
So, some consequentials have already been fed into this coming budget.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
If I could just maybe tease out of you how much of that uplift is actually in this current projection for Welsh Government spending.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Okay. And the second part was about the budget uplift.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Okay. My third question is about reserves. Now, as the paper outlines, the reserves that schools have have gone down quite substantially over recent years. It's now down to £115 million. Two questions: (1) do you think schools and local authorities have got…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
That's fine. Just to finish on that second question, are you saying that local authorities won't be short-changed in any way by meeting the increased pay award for teachers?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Thank you very much. The next question is on teachers' pay. Back in November, you committed to providing additional funding to support local authorities to honour the award of 5.5 per cent on teachers' pay in the academic year 2024-25. However, according to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2
Thank you very much. I will be asking the question in Welsh. We know that you’re not responsible for the funding of schools’ core budgets, and that that comes from local government budgets, but, as Cabinet Secretary, how confident are you that local…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Bearing in mind what Russell George has already told us this afternoon, there is concern right across Powys and Gwynedd about these plans or these recommendations, certainly, particularly the time of two hours, perhaps, that it will take for people to receive…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Cabinet Secretary, you will appreciate, of course, how important it is for people to receive treatment for strokes as close as possible to where they live. This includes live-saving emergency treatment as well as intensive post-stroke rehabilitation. You'll…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
6. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the provision of stroke services in Mid and West Wales? OQ62117
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thank you very much. When you announced last week your intention to establish the task and finish group on offshore wind energy, you outlined a range of economic objectives that the Welsh Government hopes that schemes such as this, in the Irish sea…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
6. How is the Welsh Government working to ensure that communities in Mid and West Wales benefit from offshore renewables? OQ62118
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Okay, diolch. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
We, as a committee, are interested in knowing what your views are on the report that you have referred to already, which is 'Children on the margins'. I'm wondering what you as an inspectorate can do to ensure that services do safeguard those children who go…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
I’m going to ask my final question in Welsh, so if you could put your headsets on.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
If I can maybe just move that conversation on, I'm just wondering what your view is on the potential impact of the health and social care Bill on unregistered placements. Given what the Welsh Government have said, that unregistered placements could not be…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
So, are you suggesting that those numbers are on the decrease, then?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Yes and no. I guess you'd know how many children are in those unregistered services, wouldn't you?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny session
Diolch yn fawr iawn. I just want to concentrate the first two questions on unregistered placements. During the period covered by the report, could you tell us the total number of children who are placed in unregistered placements? Do you as an inspectorate…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 1
Okay. Right, okay.
