Pobl a Mudiadau

The Deputy Minister for Regeneration and the Minister for Social Justice and Local Government consider options for delivery of the recommendations and agreed to the establishment of a contract in order to do so.

The Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the issuing of guidance to local authorities on the reimbursement of payments made to the Child Trust Funds of the children they look after.

The Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery has agreed the allocation of £1.1million for LSB development within the convergence and non-convergence areas and the re-allocation of other LSB funding to the match funding ‘pot’. The Minister agreed that the knock on effect of a potential under ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to write to the Chair of the Communities and Culture Committee to inform her of progress in implementation of the Committee’s recommendations. The Minister also requested that a copy of the letter sent to Janice Gregory AM is sent to t ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to attend the National Assembly for Wales’ European and External Affairs Committee inquiry in to the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010) and has approved a paper for submission to the Committee in advance of ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has made some minor amendments to the final version of the Community Cohesion Strategy at doc 2 and the accompanying Welsh Assembly Government Action Plan at doc 3; is content with the Ministerial foreword; and is content with the name of the Str ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to fund £700 towards the total costs of the event, and to attend the event to make a presentation to Mr Chamberlain who has carried out 20 years volunteering work at the credit union.

The Deputy Minister has agreed that there is no need to issue guidance on this subject at this time

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to fund up to £10,000 towards the costs of the review.

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to award Displace People In Action (DPIA) £16,000 revenue funding for the Readiness for Work project from 1st October 2009 to the 31st March 2010 only.

The Minister has considered the advice and agreed to fund £5,000 towards the total costs of funding the launch and marketing to schools and credit unions of the Credit Union Schools Resource – CU@the CU.

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to making available funding of £1 million to April 2010 for capital projects submitted by credit unions

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to fund £5,500 towards the total costs of the event

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has approved a paper on the proposed shape of the new Child Poverty Strategy for Wales, for the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Children and Young People on the 5th October 2009.

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has considered the advice and agreed to fund the revised campaign proposals up to £125,000 revenue and has agreed to the text of the Statement of Information at doc.1.

The Minister for Rural Affairs has agreed that officials instruct lawyers to begin drafting an Order which will reform inshore fisheries management in Wales.

The Deputy Minister for Regeneration has approved the Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) and Communities First Pockets of Deprivation, with the exception of Rhondda Cynon Taff, as the coverage area for Communities 2.0. The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government is content with the Low ...

The Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills has agreed option 3 to invite Play Wales to write again in 2010, when the budgets available will be clearer. The event falls in the 2011-12 financial year and later in the year any possibilities for funding may be clearer. A lette ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to transfer the current Substance Misuse central funding to the revenue allocations of the Community Safety Partnerships where the project currently runs. The Minister has also agreed to the development on an exemplar model to be disse ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government agreed funding the Credit Union marketing campaign proposals up to £125,000 revenue.

The Deputy Minister for Skills has noted and approved the response to the Chair of the Equality of Opportunity Committee which requested the statistics on numbers of people over 50 who have been assisted by Local Employment Partnerships.

Deputy First Minister and Minister for the Economy and Transport has agreed to commence appointment process.

The Minister for Social Justice & Local Government has agreed to extend the Child Trust Fund Cymru Scheme for 2009-10 to target a greater number of children.

The Minister for Social Justice & Local Government noted the options considered for implementing the proposal to add a Welsh premium to the Child Trust Fund Scheme in Wales and agreed a delivery mechanism.

The Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has agreed to publish the Children and Young People’s Cabinet Committee paper to note.

The Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has agreed the statement “A Progress Update on the Welsh Assembly Government’s Policy Agenda for Disabled Children and Young People”

The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the Cabinet Paper and has agreed that the Strategy for Older People Annual Report 2008-09 be circulated in correspondence to Cabinet

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Health and Social Services, Environment, Sustainability and Housing, Finance and the First Minister agreed that Wales will play a full part in the resettlement programme and would fund the necessary costs from within their existing budgets to su ...

Deputy Minister for Skills has agreed the written evidence and confirmed his attendance at the Equality of Opportunity Committee on 14 July 2009.

The Minister for Children, Education Lifelong Learning and Skills approved a paper for the Cabinet Committee on Children and Young People on 11 May.

The Minister for Children, Education, Life Long Learning & Skills agreed the response.

The Deputy Minister for Social Services has agreed to collect data for the Wales Annual Children in Need (CIN) census beginning on the 31st March 2010 and for Circular WAGC 15/2009 which sets out the dataset and guidance for the CIN Census to be issued.

Gwenda Thomas Deputy Minister for Social Services has responded to a request by Baroness Delyth Morgan and has consented to the making of three sets of regulations as part of the implementation of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. These are the Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous Provision ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed a response to the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee’s report on Local Government Scrutiny and Overview arrangements and a letter to the Committee’s Chair. These note that the Minister has accepted nearly all of the Commi ...

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to Citizens Advice Cymru (CAC) delivering the campaign as a pilot and as part of the existing Better Advice Better Health initiative.

Elin Jones AM, Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, agreed with the recommendations made by the sifting panel and with the shortlist for the interviews which are scheduled for 22 May 2009.

Elin Jones AM, Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, agreed to the re-advertising of these posts under Welsh Assembly Government public appointments procedures, and to rename the Strategic Food and Drink Advisory Group (FDAG) to become the Food and Drink Advisory Partnership (FDAP), in keeping with the ...

The Minister for Environment Sustainability and Housing Jane Davidson has: - Considered the selection panel’s view on each candidate in the recent public appointments process and the advice about making an appointment and next steps. - Agreed the draft letter to Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn and Rt. Hon. Ed ...

The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the extension of current secondee’s contract from New Horizons as an interim measure to cover the post of Community and Voluntary Sector Officer until 30 June 2009.

The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed, subject to resources becoming available, to fund a one year Prisoner and Suicide Support Project; and a 3 year Bereaved Families of Service Personnel Project both run by Cruse Bereavement Care Cymru.

The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed a 3 year grant of £100,000 pa to fund a Samaritans Director for Wales.

The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the appointment of 6 new members to the Independent Social Services Complaints Panels.

The Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing has approved funding of £130,000 for Sustrans Cymru, a sustainable transport charity based in Cardiff.

The Minister for Heritage agreed the practical arrangements for the additional funding for Urdd Gobaith Cymru in 2009/10 agreed in September 2008.

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government approved proposals to establish a Disability Equality Advisory Group; the draft membership of the Group and the representative nominations.

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has issued a Written Statement on the Joint Agreement on Child Poverty.

The Minister for Social Justice & Local Government has agreed the allocation of funds for 2009-10 from the Promoting Equality Fund.

The Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has agreed the ratification of Article 24, of the convention, subject to the Interpretative Declaration being entered in relation to Article 24 2(a) and a Reservation being entered in relation to Article 24 2 (b).

The Minister for Health and Social Services has been asked approve the application and distribution of the agreed Strategy for Older People budget for 2009/10 in respect of local authority and Assembly Government funding and voluntary sector allocation.

The Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills has approved the award and allocation of grant to successful applicants under the National Voluntary Youth Organisations (NVYO) Grant Scheme 2009-2012

The Minister for Social Justice and Local Government has agreed to award the Wales Strategic Migration Partnership £28,238.75 funding for the financial year 2008-09.