, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 13
Thank you, Chair. It sounds like, and you've suggested in your evidence to us, that you're calling for some kind of strategy for employment that's connected and joined-up in Wales, like you said, from the cradle to the grave, so that it's not just looking at…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
Thank you. And then—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
Thank you. Could I just ask you specifically on the changes you'd like to see in relation to the equality impact assessments? Yes, Isabel.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
—that should be enforced, yes, and mandated, as you've said. Thank you so much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
So, really, we're talking about some basic disability standards here, aren't we—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
Thank you. Angharad, did you want to add anything?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
Thank you. Dee.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 12
Thank you, Chair, and thank you, all, for coming this afternoon. As we know, the disability rights action plan should be published soon. What are the key things in there that you'd like to see? So, if you could say, 'This has to definitely be in this action…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you, Chair. Just very quickly on the first question that Julie Morgan asked about targets, can I get some clarity? You mentioned not setting targets on employers, I think, so that it didn't become a tick-box exercise, and that the support was more…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Yes.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Just one final question from me. You also mentioned in some of your answers the Access to Work scheme, and I think you mentioned or you suggested that there was a lack of awareness amongst employers of it. And to be honest, we've had a lot of evidence that…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you. And just one final question—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you. You mentioned in your previous answer your opinion about the Disability Confident scheme, and you also mentioned that idea of having some kind of Welsh disability kitemark. Do you think that that should be in addition to the Disability Confident…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you. What do you feel has been the impact in general of the Welsh Government's employment support on disabled people? Do you feel that there are gaps or opportunities to develop more effective support? And also, from your experience, and the TUC's…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Thank you, and good afternoon. We know and you've referred to the fact that the Welsh Government has established a number of working groups in order to look at employment rights, and you mentioned the disability rights taskforce and the social partnership…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
Just on that point that you made there about health charges, something else that came up in the report were the charges that are sometimes wrongly made on students also, that they're not being charged home fees, when actually they should be as a European…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
So, I would like an assurance this afternoon that the Government is listening and is going to press its sister Government in Westminster to listen too. Thank you.
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
'There's been, to a certain extent, a sense in Government that the EUSS will be an issue that will gradually go away. It's been a long time since the scheme was introduced. But these problems will continue to be here for a very long time, and I think it's…
, Plenary
Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
Thank you, Llywydd dros dro. We heard no mention of the adverse effects of Brexit in the Chancellor's statement last week. Indeed, the Labour Party has been very careful not to pay any attention to the huge elephant that sits in our country's political…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Diolch, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. It was extremely concerning to hear that testimony from Professor Fu-Meng Khaw, the executive medical director of Public Health Wales, about those major data failings during the first wave of the pandemic. Around 17 per cent of…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
3. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide a statement on the recent COVID-19 inquiry revelation by Public Health Wales, which highlights missing data regarding NHS staff deaths due to COVID? TQ1235
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: 'The Anti-racist Wales Action Plan'
The violent, racist riots that we saw this summer in towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland must serve as a stark reminder to us in Wales that there is so much work to be done to eradicate the hate and discriminatory views that threaten the safety…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: 'The Anti-racist Wales Action Plan'
Thank you for the statement.
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget
Even with some of the welcome steps made by the Chancellor on public spending, there are decisions made in the budget that will bake in inequality and will, inevitably, increase Welsh Government spending. It was very disappointing not to hear the first female…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I'd like to ask for a statement, please, by the Minister for Children and Social Care to update the Senedd on the roll-out of free childcare provision. It was extremely disappointing not to hear the first female UK Chancellor mention childcare once in her…
