Children and Young People
Last updated 09 February 2012
These reports are intended to provide you with the facts and factual analysis upon which Ministers have taken the following decisions
Within this section the decisions relate to: Parenting and childcare; Learning and working; Health, child protection and care; Play and leisure; Participation and equality; Safe home and community; Child poverty: Rights for children and young people; and Working for children and young people.
26/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have approved the recruitment of a secondee with experience in, and in-depth knowledge of, international approaches to positive parenting.
26/06/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services and the Minister for Health and Social Services have agreed the proposed response to the Children's Commissioner.
26/06/12
The Minister for Education and Skills, The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed that co-operation is needed in drawing up a detailed specification and development plan for a suitable developmental assessment tool to meet the sp
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21/06/12
Both the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed to the funding for a short piece of work on TAF research and approaches, of £2,200 plus VAT
29/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed funding in principle for a number of capital projects, subject to receipt of further information. The Minister has also agreed to delegate to senior officials in the Children, Young People and Families Division the authority to formally approve
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25/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to fund the continuation of the Strengthening Families Programme to allow the programme delivery to recruit the desired sample size.
24/05/12
Both the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services and the Minister for Health and Social Services agreed the programme and funding for the Families First National conference.
18/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed that the Welsh Government can commission an evaluation of the effects of the Child Poverty Solutions Wales project since 2010 at an anticipated cost of £15,000.
17/05/12
The Minister for Education and Skills has agreed to the Welsh Government hosting stakeholder events jointly with the Department for Education.
15/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed to the review of information gathered from CC-CAWAC to identify the level of need of children experiencing inter-parental conflict to inform whether a parenting support programme (target
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15/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services has agreed the content and publication of the guidance.
14/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services and the Minister for Health and Social Services have agreed the funding of £87,075 to allow payment for additional research to support the Flying Start wave 2 survey.
11/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services has agreed to issue the letter replying to the Committee.
10/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services has approved the written statement.
09/05/12
Both the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed the funding of £204,000 during 2012/13 to WCVA - CRU to facilitate free of charge CRB disclosure checks for CSSIW registered providers of childcare for children under 8 years. Both
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04/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services have agreed that the procurement process to appoint a Network Manager – Child Contact Services can be initiated earlier in September 2012 rather than April 2013.
03/05/12
The Minister for Education and Skills and the Deputy Minister for Skills have agreed the proposed allocation of the remaining approved budgets within the Supporting Young People Budget Expenditure Line (BEL) 4760 for 2012 – 2013 and to allow officials to commit expenditure in line with budgets and
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01/05/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services confirmed that the Welsh Government will conduct its own appointment process for a Welsh representative.
01/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed that the external contractors responsible for the evaluation, report to both the Director General Tackling Poverty Programme Board, and the Ministerial Tackling Poverty Programme Board – on an ongoing basis, for the duration of the evalua
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19/04/12
The Minister for Education and Skills and the Deputy Minister for Children have agreed to issue a written statement updating Assembly Members on the work of the Pembrokeshire Ministerial Board and improvements to arrangements for safeguarding in Pembrokeshire.
17/04/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed to the extension of grant funding to Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board to continue the Healthy Start Vitamin Pilot for a further 6 months, until 30 September 2012.
17/04/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services has agreed to the Summary of Responses to the Local Participation Strategies Guidance consultation and the children and young people's responses documents being published on the Welsh Government website.
13/04/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the content of the written response by the Welsh Government to the report of the National Assembly for Wales Children and Young People Committee Inquiry.
12/04/12
The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services has agreed proposals for the final phases of roll out of IFSS and associated funding model; publication of a Written Statement and map of the proposed geographical coverage of IFSS by 2013/14; and letters to WLGA, ADSS and NHS Confederation infor
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12/04/12
Both the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services and the Minister for Health and Social Services have agreed the provision of £1,500 towards costs of producing a leaflet