Meetings
Scrutiny of the Minister for Communities and Tackling 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: 18/11/2015 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)
4 Letter from the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty following the meeting on 22 October
CYPE(4)-28-15
– Paper to note 4
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 14/10/2015 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
2 Scrutiny of the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty on the review of the role of the Children's Commissioner
Briefing
paper from stakeholder – Private paper 1
Briefing
paper from stakeholder – Private paper 2
Welsh
Government
CYPE(4)-24-15
– Paper 3
Lesley Griffiths AM,
Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty Kate Cassidy, Director for
Communities & Tackling Poverty
Elin Gwynedd, Head of Empowering Children & Young People
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 7 , View reasons restricted (2/1)
- Restricted enclosure 8 , View reasons restricted (2/2)
- Restricted enclosure 9 , View reasons restricted (2/3)
- Paper 3, item 2
PDF 818 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee scrutinised the Minister on the government response to the review.
The
Minister agreed to update the committee on discussions with the Children’s
Commissioner on the opportunities for the Commissioner to have an early role in
policy development.
Meeting: 14/10/2015 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
Scrutiny of the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty on the Report on the compliance with the duty under section 1 of the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011
Welsh
Government
Lesley Griffiths AM,
Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
Kate Cassidy, Director for Communities & Tackling Poverty
Elin Gwynedd, Head of Empowering Children & Young People
Minutes:
The
Committee scrutinised the Minister on the Compliance report.
Meeting: 02/07/2015 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)
5 Letter from the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty following the meeting on 4 June 2015
CYPE(4)-19-15
– Paper to note 5
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 04/06/2015 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
2 Scrutiny of the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
CYPE(4)-16-15
– Paper 1
Lesley
Griffiths AM, Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
Kate
Cassidy, Director – Communities and Tackling Poverty
Martin
Swain, Deputy Director – Children, Young People and Families Division
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 20 , View reasons restricted (2/1)
- CYPE(4)-16-15 - Paper 1, item 2
PDF 102 KB
View as HTML (2/2) 56 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee scrutinised the Minster on the issues relating to children and young
people in her portfolio. The Minister
agreed to provide the Committee with the following:
Further detail on whether the families with disabled
children element of the families first budget is being used to provide play
facilities for children with disabilities; and
To share with the Committee the initial plans for Children
in Wales’ participation project and any specific targets that had been set.
Meeting: 19/06/2014 - Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 7)
7 General Scrutiny Session: Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
Jeff Cuthbert AM, Minister for Communities and Tackling
Poverty
Kate Cassidy, Director Communities and Tackling Poverty
Eleanor Marks, Deputy Director of Communities Division
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 25 , View reasons restricted (7/1)
- CELG(4)-19-14, item 7
PDF 298 KB
View as HTML (7/2) 99 KB
Minutes:
7.1. The Committee received evidence from Jeff Cuthbert AM,
Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty, and his officials.
7.2. During the session, the Minister agreed to provide the
following to the Committee:
- the guidance which is
provided to local authorities for their scrutiny of Communities First
grants recipients;
- the figures for
increases in Credit Union membership figures, following the marketing
campaign.
Meeting: 19/06/2014 - Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 11)
General scrutiny session: Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty - discussion of evidence
Minutes:
11.1. The Committee discussed the evidence received and
agreed to write to the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty on the
points that were raised.
Meeting: 19/06/2013 - Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 10)
10 Letter from the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty - update on actions following the meeting on 23 May
CELG(4)-19-13 – Paper 8
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 23/05/2013 - Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
2 Ministerial Scrutiny Session - Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
CELG(4)-16-13 – Paper 1
Huw Lewis, Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty
Kate Cassidy, Director
- Communities and Tackling Poverty
Owain Lloyd, Deputy Director - Operations, Local Government and Communities
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
2.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty. The Minister agreed to provide notes on the following:
Update on the current position of the Fuel poverty advisory group;
Role of Welsh Government in the delivery of the work programme in Wales;
Outcome discussions regarding implementation of flying start within a school in Swansea;
Information on the provision of bi-lingual services for flying start.