3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
That's quite comprehensive, then, really, Rebecca, is it, that mapping exercise?
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Item 3 on our agenda today, then, is our tenth evidence session with regard to our work on social housing supply. I'm very pleased to welcome, joining us here at the Senedd, Rebecca Kentfield, who is the affordable housing project manager for Faith in…
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes. Okay. Diolch yn fawr, Sorcha. Thank you very much. Okay, committee will break briefly until 10:35.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay. Diolch yn fawr.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay. Thanks for very much, Sorcha. I'm afraid that's all we've got time for today, but we will write to you with some further questions, Sorcha. Thanks very much for giving evidence to committee this morning. We will send you a transcript to check for…
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes, okay. Thanks, Sorcha. Carolyn, did you want to quickly ask some questions?
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes, okay.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay. Thanks, Sorcha; thanks, Lee. Sorcha, just in terms of use of publicly owned land for housing, I wonder if you could—I'm afraid we've reached the end of our allotted time, so we'll have to be very brief—but, in terms of guiding principles for Governments…
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay, Siân. Okay, Sorcha. Thanks very much. We'll move on to Lee Waters, then. Lee.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Thanks very much. We'd better press on, because we've got limited time left, I'm afraid. Siân.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Just before you go on, Siân, I think Carolyn Thomas would like to come in at this point.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes. Okay, Sorcha. Thanks very much for that. That's very useful background for us, I think. I'll just bring in other committee members with questions, starting with Siân Gwenllian.
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay, thanks for that, Sorcha. It's useful to have that overview. I guess we're familiar with a lot of the factors that have come into play, economic and otherwise, over recent years, but in terms of political will, which you mentioned, I guess, would you say…
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
We will move to item 2, our ninth evidence session with regard to the committee's work on social housing supply. I'm very pleased to welcome our witness joining us virtually, Sorcha Edwards, secretary general of Housing Europe. Croeso, Sorcha. I will begin…
3 July 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee. We haven't received any apologies from committee members for today's meeting, although one of our members, James Evans, will be joining us a little later on. Carolyn Thomas is…
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language: Tata Steel
Cabinet Secretary, it seems clear to me that people readily understand the case for primary steel making and for steel as a strategic industry for defence and manufacturing in general, and for the infrastructure that we're going to need, and they understand…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
No. Okay, Sally, I wonder if I may, Cadeirydd, just a follow-up question. You referred to the funding already provided and there was, of course, £68 million in terms of preparatory work for the Bill. Are you able to tell us how many new not-for-profit…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thanks very much for that. Staying with the financial side of things, in your written evidence, you refer to the Bill requiring significant investment. You've touched already on financial issues, but I wonder if you could tell us a little bit more in terms of…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Diolch, Cadeirydd, and afternoon, everyone. Yes, some questions first of all on costings and estimated savings in the regulatory impact assessment and what confidence we may have in them. Welsh Government commissioned the Association of Directors of Social…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Okay. In terms of the transition period following April 2027, the Children's Homes Association refer to provisions in the Bill allowing existing private providers to remain registered, subject to conditions through the regulations, and say that, without…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
I don't know if Jennifer wanted to come in at this stage, Chair, or would you rather me continue and bring Jennifer in to respond to my further question, perhaps, and make whatever point she wanted to make, at that stage?
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Diolch, Cadeirydd, and morning, everyone. We've touched on a lot of the possible unintended consequences already in the evidence that you've provided this morning, but I just wonder if you might be able to provide a little bit more detail from any work you've…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd. Just drawing on some of those issues and whether there's enough of a distinction in the proposed legislation between small and medium-sized enterprises and the larger companies, I know that some of the responses to the Welsh…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Diolch yn fawr, Cadeirydd, and welcome to all of our witnesses this morning. Firstly from me, really, in terms of provision and to what extent it meets need, there does seem to have been a real challenge over the past 30 years or so in developing enough…
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…
