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NDM8688 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2023-24.

Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Report 2023-24

The following amendments were tabled:

Amendment 1 Darren Millar (Clwyd West) 

Add as new points at end of motion:

Regrets that around 30% of children in Wales are living in poverty.

Supports the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ calls for the Welsh Government’s Child Poverty Strategy to have clear targets and measurable outcomes.

Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Children’s Commissioner to implement the WAVE Trust’s campaign to reduce child abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences by 2030.

Child Poverty Strategy for Wales 2024

Amendment 2 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)

Add as new points at end of motion:

Notes that 14 years of austerity under the previous UK Conservative Government has intensified the levels of poverty, and specifically child poverty, in Wales.

Regrets that the Welsh Government in 2016 abandoned the target of eradicating child poverty by 2020.

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

NDM8688 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2023-24.

Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Report 2023-24

The following amendments were tabled:

Amendment 1 Darren Millar (Clwyd West) 

Add as new points at end of motion:

Regrets that around 30% of children in Wales are living in poverty.

Supports the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ calls for the Welsh Government’s Child Poverty Strategy to have clear targets and measurable outcomes.

Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Children’s Commissioner to implement the WAVE Trust’s campaign to reduce child abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences by 2030.

A vote was taken on amendment 1:

Amendment 1 was not agreed.

Amendment 2 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)

Add as new points at end of motion:

Notes that 14 years of austerity under the previous UK Conservative Government has intensified the levels of poverty, and specifically child poverty, in Wales.

Regrets that the Welsh Government in 2016 abandoned the target of eradicating child poverty by 2020.

A vote was taken on amendment 2:

Amendment 2 was not agreed.

A vote was taken on the motion:

NDM8688 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd:

Notes the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2023-24.

Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Report 2023-24

The motion was agreed.

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