, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
And to be clear, therefore, you think that the responsibility for developing that provision would be on the providers themselves in order to meet what we want to provide through the medium of Welsh rather than there being any funding coming from anywhere…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Claire, would you like to come in on that at all?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Brilliant. Well done. Wonderful.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you. A couple of questions regarding the requirements on providers. The Bill provides that this outdoor education should be available in Welsh, if that's the request of the schools. Is there sufficient provision at the moment to meet the potential…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Just to follow up very quickly on that: Claire, you said previously that you wanted to see this provision, this Bill, referring to provision in Wales; and I think the councillor also endorsed that. Would that be a barrier here? That is, are there enough…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
As Rhun ap Iorwerth put to the First Minister yesterday, it's not just about the money—it's also about a plan. And it's now even more crucial that we see support for initiatives that retain and increase the skills base needed for the future in the Port Talbot…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
It has been a tortuous few weeks for thousands of people I represent since we heard that announcement that the heavy end of the steelworks would close entirely. So much uncertainty then, so much worry, but also a desperate hope that the plan that was…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Yesterday marked 15 years since the death of Paul Ridd. Paul was a man with a learning disability from Baglan, who died in Morriston Hospital in 2009. Paul's death was avoidable, with an inquest in 2013 confirming he had died from natural causes contributed…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Implementation of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023
Plaid Cymru recognises the importance of this Act, specifically, as you said, as regards socially responsible procurement, of course, but also for strengthening the rights of our workers and unions, and we were glad to work, of course, with the Government on…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Implementation of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023
Thank you for the update, Minister.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: The Child Poverty Strategy for Wales
After months—no, actually, years—of asking—pleading, actually—Plaid Cymru is glad to see the publication, at last, of a new child poverty strategy. That is welcome. What is also welcome is that this is an improvement on the draft we received last year, which…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Tata Steel
Thank you for the statement, Minister. I want to echo the view that the significant redundancies, made far too swiftly, are unacceptable when there are other viable options available to us. I want to emphasise once again the devastating impact that this is…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Just a brief question on the impact on particular groups, following on from some of the questions asked by Altaf Hussian. There's a significant reduction in the level of funding for police community support officers. I just wanted to ask what assessment has…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Diolch.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Yes. Just one brief question on that. We've seen the social partnerships budget reduced by £161,000, and you state in your paper that this will have no impact on the implementation of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023. Can you…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Just to follow up very briefly on that, you mentioned the personal learning allowances. Of course, those have been cut, haven't they? And, as Sarah mentioned earlier, the period dignity grant has also been cut. So, it's difficult to see the impact of this…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Chair. Just one question on the child poverty strategy. You've already mentioned it a number of times, and we do look forward to seeing the publication of that strategy. Of course, we're scrutinising this budget without having seen the strategy to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
Yes, I suppose the point for me is that it costs money to create systems, and usually it's the process that needs to improve. Because what people like Citizens Advice tell us is that you're taking the time of people on the front line to steer through these…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
So, the Bevan Foundation has been talking about having a system in place, haven't they, not a charter specifically, but you've taken the step of creating the charter. Now, given it's a non-statutory charter, and therefore voluntarily, how does the budget take…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Draft budget 2024-25: Ministerial evidence session
If I could just ask one brief question on the Welsh benefits charter. Now, what the Bevan Foundation has been talking about is a smooth-running system, rather than the charter itself—. Now, given that the—. Everything okay, Minister?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Yes, similarly with the Bevan Foundation, and, also, I'm a trustee of a foodbank—Pantry Foodbank in Pontardawe.
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Apprenticeships
I have seen with my own eyes, during a visit to the JES Group company in Port Talbot, the pride and skills that can be derived from an apprenticeship. It was a genuinely striking experience to see a local successful company develop an innovative and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you. Of course, those higher skills and the need to reskill is something that closes the equality gap in terms of wages and attainment, and also as regards our economy as well. And the Government's own analysis shows that the cuts to postgraduate grants…
