Decision details

The item started at 15.06

 

NDM5489 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

 

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with section 3(6) of the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011, approves the draft Children's Rights Scheme 2014 laid before the Assembly on 22 April 2014.

 

The following amendments were tabled:

 

Amendment 1 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)

 

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Notes the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s statement, included in annex 3 to the Children’s Rights Scheme 2014, that the obligation to take the child’s best interests as a primary consideration “extends also to the approval of budgets, the preparation and development of which require the adoption of a best-interests-of-the-child perspective for it to be child-rights sensitive”.

 

Amendment 1 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 

Voting on the remaining amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.

 

Amendment 2 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

 

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Regrets the lack of reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in recent legislation, such as the School Standards & Organisation (Wales) Act 2013, as recommended by the Children and Young People Committee, and calls on the Welsh Government to underline Wales’s commitment to the UNCRC by including reference to “due regard” on the face of any future legislation which would affect children.

A vote was taken on Amendment 2:

For	Abstain	Against	Total
15	10	26	51

Amendment 2 was not agreed.

 

Amendment 3 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

 

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Notes the 2013 Wales NGO Interim Report ‘Rights Here, Right Now: Are Children’s Rights a Reality in Wales?’ and calls on the Welsh Government to ensure effective monitoring mechanisms are in place in order to deliver “concerted action in reducing the implementation gap between national policy rhetoric and local delivery”.

A vote was taken on Amendment 3:

For	Abstain	Against	Total
52	0	0	52

Amendment 3 was agreed.

 

A vote was taken on the motion as amended:

 

NDM5489 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

 

1.To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with section 3(6) of the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011, approves the draft Children's Rights Scheme 2014 laid before the Assembly on 22 April 2014.

 

2.Notes the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s statement, included in annex 3 to the Children’s Rights Scheme 2014, that the obligation to take the child’s best interests as a primary consideration “extends also to the approval of budgets, the preparation and development of which require the adoption of a best-interests-of-the-child perspective for it to be child-rights sensitive.

 

3.Notes the 2013 Wales NGO Interim Report ‘Rights Here, Right Now: Are Children’s Rights a Reality in Wales?’ and calls on the Welsh Government to ensure effective monitoring mechanisms are in place in order to deliver “concerted action in reducing the implementation gap between national policy rhetoric and local delivery”.

 

For	Abstain	Against	Total
52	0	0	52

The motion as amended was agreed.