Meetings

Child Poverty

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.

 

 

Meeting: 23/06/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Correspondence to the Chair from the Bevan Foundation regarding the no recourse to public funds restriction and Child Poverty in Wales

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Meeting: 12/05/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Education to the Chair regarding Free School Meals

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Meeting: 28/04/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

5 Correspondence to the Chair from Professor Rod Hicks regarding Child Poverty

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Meeting: 24/03/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip to Chair regarding Child Poverty Strategy and Monitoring Framework

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Meeting: 24/03/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Minister for Children and Social Care to the Chair regarding childcare funding in Wales

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Meeting: 10/02/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence from the Chair to the Children, Young People and Education Committee regarding an invitation to join a technical briefing from Welsh Government and Professor Hicks concerning Child Poverty

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Meeting: 10/02/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

Child poverty: evidence session with Professor Rod Hick

Professor Rod Hick, Cardiff University

Minutes:

Members received an academic briefing session with Professor Rod Hicks, Cardiff University.

Meeting: 10/02/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)

1 Child poverty: technical briefing regarding the Child Poverty Monitoring Framework

David Willis, Head of Tackling Poverty, Welsh Government

Ian Jones, Head of Communities Tackling Poverty Evidence Unit, Welsh Government

 

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Minutes:

Members received a private technical briefing on the Child Poverty Monitoring Framework.

Meeting: 10/02/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

Child poverty: consideration of evidence

Minutes:

Members considered the evidence and agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip seeking further information and clarity on aspects of the Child Poverty Monitoring Framework.

 

Meeting: 06/02/2025 - Children, Young People, and Education Committee (Item 6)

6 Child Poverty

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Meeting: 11/01/2024 - Children, Young People, and Education Committee (Item 7)

7 Child Poverty

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Meeting: 10/01/2024 - Plenary (Item 5)

Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee report - Calling time on child poverty: how Wales can do better

NDM8446 Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Equality and Social Justice Committee report: “Calling time on child poverty: How Wales can do better” laid on 6 November 2023.

Note: The response from the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 19 December 2023.

Minutes:

The item started at 16.35

NDM8446 Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Equality and Social Justice Committee report: “Calling time on child poverty: How Wales can do better” laid on 6 November 2023.

Note: The response from the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 19 December 2023.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 

Meeting: 08/01/2024 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Written response from the Welsh Government to the report of the Equality and Social Justice Committee: "Calling Time on Child Poverty - How Wales Can Do Better"

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Meeting: 06/11/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence from Whitehead-Ross Education regarding child poverty

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Meeting: 23/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: consideration of draft report

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Minutes:

Members considered the draft report.

Meeting: 16/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Correspondence from the Children, Young People and Education Committee regarding Child Poverty

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Meeting: 16/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: consideration of draft report

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Minutes:

Members considered the draft report and made amendments.

Meeting: 09/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)

The Committee undertook two visits in relation to their inquiry into the Welsh Government's Draft Child Poverty Strategy

Meeting: 02/10/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)

1 Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: stakeholder session

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A private, hybrid stakeholder session was held to discuss the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy.

Meeting: 25/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 2

Victoria Winckler, Bevan Foundation

         

Sean O’Neill, Children in Wales

          

Dr Rod Hick, Cardiff University

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Members heard evidence from:

 

Victoria Winckler, Bevan Foundation

 

Sean O’Neill, Children in Wales

 

Dr Rod Hick, Cardiff University

Meeting: 25/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 1 (13:00-14:15)

Ally Dunhill, Eurochild

 

Mari Rege, University of Stavanger

 

Chris Birt, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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Members heard evidence from:

 

Ally Dunhill, Eurochild

 

Mari Rege, University of Stavanger

 

Chris Birt, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Meeting: 25/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: consideration of evidence

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Members considered the evidence.

Meeting: 25/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Draft Child Poverty Strategy: evidence session 3

 

Rocio Cifuentes, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Dr Rhian Croke, Children’s Legal Centre, Swansea University

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Minutes:

Members heard evidence from:

 

Rocio Cifuentes, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

 

Dr Rhian Croke, Children’s Legal Centre, Swansea University

Meeting: 11/09/2023 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

6 Correspondence with the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip regarding the Draft Child Poverty Strategy

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