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Speeches and questions in Plenary and in committees, newest first. The Llywydd's and deputies' chairing of Plenary is left out.

1,027 speeches and questions

15 June 2022Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I thank Mike Hedges for that supplementary question. Obviously, I agree with him how important social care is for people to live in their own homes and to live happy and fulfilled lives. As the Member will know, we've set up a social care fair work forum…
15 June 2022Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
We are supporting a range of recruitment initiatives. We have introduced the real living wage for care workers and will make further improvements to terms and conditions. We strongly support joint approaches by local authorities and health boards to improve…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Thank you very much. Diolch.
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I think we could certainly do that.
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Do you mean a sort of summary of what the reforms are?
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I absolutely agree with you—it's absolutely essential that we do keep young people involved in all the discussions we have. Obviously, we fund Voices from Care, we fund Young Wales in Children in Wales, and these are all mechanisms by which we get…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Yes, it's at the top of the First Minister's priorities to radically reform the care for looked-after children and, indeed, for the social services provision in Wales. What we want to see is a system that actively helps people, which is there to move in at a…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I can go to a quarter to.
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I don't think we have a programme specifically for mother and baby units, I think our plan is to support young people with their families, if that is possible. It may not necessarily be the best way ahead for some young people to go into a mother and baby…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Yes, thank you, Joel. Obviously, when any person has a child, they need support, and they need support from their family, their friends, and they need a network to help them move through the really difficult years of bringing up children. I think it is very…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
And I'm sure the committee will be very interested to hear that, in September, we're holding a summit to directly hear from care-experienced young people about the issues that matter most to them, and I'm sure some of those people who come to that summit will…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I think it is always better if advocacy services are independent, and I think that is the line that we've taken in the Welsh Government in developing advocacy services, and we've used the third sector for much of the advocacy services that we do fund, such as…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I'm very glad you had evidence from them.
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Oh, did you? That's great.
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Yes. I think, Joel, you also referred to the emotional support as well, and whether we were able to give any of that. If I could just give a couple of examples of the emotional support that is given usually on a local authority level, in Swansea, Jig-So—. I…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Yes. I don't think enough support probably is being given. We do provide a lot of support for care-experienced young people, and actually I'll ask Alistair, perhaps, if he can run through some of that support that we actually provide. But I don't think it…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I think that, in many cases, taking a child into care is seen as the last resort by the social workers and people who are involved at that particular point. But what I think is that a lot more help should be put in sooner and earlier so that families don't…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
I don't think it happens to all care leavers. I think that we are, as a state, sometimes successfully able to help care leavers grow up happily, healthily, with happy homes, and I think that the care system does provide that. But it doesn't do it for…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Thank you very much, Buffy, and I think that those voices that you heard, I absolutely acknowledge that they are there and that they exist. And we know that there is a stigma against young people who have been in care, and we've got to try and get rid of that…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Well, I think I'd have to go away and think about that. Obviously, we would want to get as much data as we possibly can in but I think it is important to get that information, because it's only if we've got that information that we're able to see what the…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Yes, absolutely. I think that it would be good progress. And, as I say, I welcome your investigation, which can move us on to get more information about this particular group of care-experienced parents. And I think, as you've already mentioned, we do know…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Thank you very much. I want to say, first of all, how much I welcome the fact that you are doing this inquiry. I think it's absolutely a very important inquiry, and I acknowledge the point that you've made that there is not any routine data collected by the…
13 June 2022Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1161 Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return to their care-experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child Placement
Diolch. I'm Julie Morgan, and I'm the Deputy Minister for Social Services in the Welsh Government.
25 May 2022Plenary
Debate on petition P-06-1249: Provide a clinical pathway, medical care, and specialists for people with Tourette’s syndrome in Wales
Diolch, and I welcome this debate this afternoon and thank Members for their comments. As Jack Sargeant said in his introduction, today is timely as we are currently in the middle of Tourette's Awareness Month, and the greater awareness we can get, the…
24 May 2022Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Learning Disability Action Plan
I thank Hefin David for that contribution and for all the work that he's done in this area and in other connected areas. With the parallel routes, it does cause problems and it does cause delays, so the action plan does want the development of improved and…