NDM8688 - Government Debate
Tabled on 08/10/2024 | For debate on 15/10/2024To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2023-24.
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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.
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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.
