A report said that vulnerable children in Wales would be better protected if responsibility for the youth justice system were transferred from Whitehall to the Welsh Assembly.
Source: Youth Justice in Wales: Thinking beyond the prison bars, Howard League for Penal Reform (020 7249 7373)
Links: Report | HLPR press release | New Start report
Date: 2009-Nov
A report highlighted a number of ways in which children and young people who lived in low-income households in rural Wales were being excluded from services that were available to their contemporaries living in urban areas.
Source: Child Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Wales, End Child Poverty Network Cymru
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Oct
A report by a committee of the National Assembly for Wales called for greater transparency over budget setting on issues that affected children and young people.
Source: Children's Budgeting in Wales, Children and Young People Committee/National Assembly for Wales (029 2082 5111)
Links: Report
Date: 2009-Oct
A report said that the Welsh Assembly Government needed to radically revise its child poverty strategy, in the light of evidence that the number of children living in poverty in Wales had increased since 2005.
Source: Victoria Winckler, What Is Needed to End Child Poverty in Wales?, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (01904 629241)
Links: Report | Findings | JRF press release | Community Care report
Date: 2009-Jun
The Children's Commissioner for Wales published the findings of research into young carers. Key findings included: 37 per cent of young carers felt that their opinions were not respected by others; 52 per cent had felt they could not cope during the previous week; and 73 per cent of those who administered medication had never received any training.
Source: Full of Care: Young carers in Wales 2009, Children's Commissioner for Wales (01792 765600)
Links: Report | CCW press release
Date: 2009-Jun
The Welsh Assembly Government announced legislation that would place a duty on it to develop a new child poverty strategy for Wales, which would have to be reviewed every three years. A duty would also be placed on specific Welsh public bodies to identify and take action to assist in the goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020.
Source: Proposed Children and Families (Wales) Measure, Welsh Assembly Government (029 2082 5111)
Links: Proposed Measure | Explanatory memorandum | WAG press release | BBC report
Date: 2009-Mar
A report examined children's experiences in Wales from the perspective of three generations. Parents and grandparents believed they have a better relationship with their children than they had with their own parents when they were growing up. Welsh adults also agreed that children had less freedom to play without supervision, and said that – for that reason – they would not want to swap their own childhood for childhood now.
Source: John Osmond and Nick Morris (eds.), What Are We Doing To Our Kids?, Institute of Welsh Affairs (029 2057 5511) Links: Report | BBC press release | BBC report
Date: 2009-Mar
The Welsh Assembly Government responded to a report by an Assembly committee on child poverty in Wales. It said that many of the recommendations could be accepted as they directly reflected existing or proposed Welsh Assembly Government policy activity.
Source: Written Response to the Children and Young People's Committee Report: Child Poverty in Wales – Eradication through Education?, Welsh Assembly Government (029 2082 5111)
Links: Response | AM report | WAG press release
Date: 2009-Jan
