<OpeningPara>The
Petitions Committee has been set up by the Senedd to consider all petitions
that meet our rules of collecting 250 signatures. </OpeningPara>
<OpeningPara>The
Committee has five Members who come from the different party groups represented
in the Senedd, and is chaired by Jack Sargeant MS.</OpeningPara>
News
<news>The
Committee will next meet on 9 October 2023.</news><link>https://business.senedd.wales/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=744&MId=13516&Ver=4</link>
<news>On
Wednesday 12 July a joint Plenary debate took place on
the Petitions Committee report, ‘Supporting care experienced parents’,
which was laid in the table office on 02 March 2023, and the report of the
Children, Young People and Education Committee, ‘If not now, then when? Radical
reform for care experienced children and young people’, which was laid in the
table office on 24 May
2023</news><link>http://www.senedd.tv/Meeting/Archive/2dcdde25-63b4-4db3-8a6c-e4f0e517b432?startPos=14986&autostart=True</link>
<news>The
Committee has Published its Annual Report
2023</news><link>https://senedd.wales/media/j4ifxq1n/cr-ld15898-e.pdf</link>
<news>The
Welsh Government have responded to the Committee’s report ‘Supporting care
experienced
parents’</news><link>https://senedd.wales/media/1sjpghl5/gen-ld15892-e.pdf</link>
<news>The
Senedd’s Petitions website has been updated. For every petition you can now see
a 'heatmap' showing where people have been signing that petition. You can see
maps based on Constituency or Region. We hope this new feature will be useful
to both those creating and signing petitions.</news>
<news>On
Wednesday 16 December, the Senedd agreed to amend Standing Orders relating to
the number of signatures required in order for a petition to be considered by
the Petitions Committee. From January 1 2022, any petition submitted will need
to collect 250 signatures in order to be considered by the
Committee.</news><link>https://senedd.wales/media/wryde5xo/cr-ld14726-e.pdf</link>
<news>Following
the election in Plenary of Jack Sargeant MS as chair of the Petitions Committee
on 29 June 2021, the Senedd elected Buffy Williams MS, Joel James MS and Luke
Fletcher MS as members of the Petitions Committee on 7 July
2021.</news><link>ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=700&MId=12322&Ver=4</link>
<news>The
Committee was established by motion in Plenary on 23 June
2021.</news><link>ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=700&MId=12318&Ver=4</link>
Current Work
<inquiry>P-06-1161
Routine collection and publication of data of how many babies/children return
to their care experienced parents care at the end of a Parent and Child
Placement</inquiry><link>https://business.senedd.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=37041</link>
<inquiry>P-06-1307
The Welsh Government should commit to the adoption of the maintenance of new
housing estates by local authorities</inquiry><link>https://business.senedd.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=40256&Opt=0</link>
<inquiry>P-06-1326
The Senedd should scrutinise the prepayment meter scandal in
Wales</inquiry><link>https://business.senedd.wales/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=40964</link>
