Vaughan Gething: I issued a written statement last week to alert Members to the new operating framework that I issued to assist NHS organisations to focus and plan in quarter 1. The framework described four levels of harm: harm from COVID-19 directly itself; harm from overwhelming the NHS and social care system; harm from reduction in non-COVID activity; and harm from wider societal actions that may flow from...
Suzy Davies: ...thank them all for coming before the committee to give us their evidence. And as well as their worries about the overall amount available to schools, teachers and school leaders have been extremely alert to that visible disparity between councils and the invisibility of why those disparities are there. Despite the long-standing pupil funding gap, Welsh Conservatives signed up to this...
Suzy Davies: ...I suppose my first question has to be why you're not bringing forward a new Act to replace the outdated Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, not least to protect the aims of your 2050 strategy for 1 million Welsh speakers, which hasn't been reflected elsewhere in the announcement you've made today. But at least that would be one way of securing access to Welsh-medium education at all ages....
Julie James: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Amendment 25 amends section 41 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014, which will help supplement existing guidance given to a licensing authority by the Welsh Ministers so that it may include specific provision about matters to be taken into account by a licensing authority in deciding whether a failure to repay a prohibited payment or holding deposit affects a...
Julie James: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm very grateful to all Members for their reflections and insights on this important anniversary day. Turning to the amendments, we will be supporting amendment 1. The Welsh Government is strongly opposed to all forms of extremism, including far-right extremism. In 'Prosperity for All: the national strategy', we set out our ambition to work with...
Kirsty Williams: ...Davies for those observations and questions. I think it is important to recognise the role of the committee in this regard. When the committee looked at the curriculum, this was the committee's No. 1 recommendation: that we needed, as a Government, to address the professional learning needs of the staff, if the objectives of the curriculum were to be developed. I hope that the members of...
Kirsty Williams: ...me. Where people get it, it's delivering really well and making a fantastic difference for those children, but there is still a tendency in too many schools to formalise learning too soon in year 1 and year 2 and go back to old ways of delivering education. That's why I, last year, before I'd even seen this evidence, recognised there was more to do in the foundation phase, and we are...
Julie James: ...will significantly reduce the impact to a rider’s head during a collision. This can make the difference between a serious brain injury and a minor one. The second project has developed a junction alert system, which will soon to be trialled on Welsh roads. This project will be able to test the system in the peak motorcycling season, and by September, the company will have fully tested...
