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ers hynny. Gweler tudalennau’r ymchwiliad a’r
ymgynghoriad i gael rhagor o wybodaeth. |This consultation response
was submitted in response to consultation text that has since been
amended. See the inquiry and consultation web pages for this
inquiry for more information.
CYPM6 Kelly Anderson
Senedd Cymru |
Welsh Parliament
Y Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl
Ifanc ac Addysg | Children, Young People and
Education Committee
Plant a phobl ifanc sydd ar yr ymylon |
Children and
Young People on the margins
Ymateb gan
Kelly Anderson | Evidence from Kelly Anderson
Please set out any views on missing children below.
You may wish to consider:
§ Nature and
scale of the issue and regional variations.
§ At risk groups:
including the impact of care experience and out of area
placements.
§ Practice:
issues such as information sharing and data collection.
§ Policy: the
effectiveness of devolved policy and practice responses, including
Welsh Government oversight. Whether there is effective read across
to relevant Welsh Government strategies.
§ Devolved and UK
powers: how joined up is the interface between devolved and
non-devolved policy such as criminal and youth justice.
Please set out any views on children and young people who are
victims of criminal exploitation below.
You may wish to consider:
§ Nature and
scale across Wales and regional variations (e.g. traditional, drug
related, sexual, financial).
§ At risk groups:
including care experience, children experiencing trauma in the home
and children not enrolled in mainstream education.
§ Policy: The
effectiveness of devolved policy including Welsh Government
oversight. Whether there effective read across to relevant WG
strategies such as Child Sexual Exploitation.
§ Practice:
Approaches to prevention, community resilience, early intervention,
support provided and exit strategies for victims. Practice issues
such as information sharing and data collection.
§ Devolved and UK
powers: How joined up is the interface between devolved and
non-devolved policy such as criminal and youth justice? Are there
any points of tension between criminal law and safeguarding?
I do not think that you should be including
home educated children in this category and would be interested in
seeing the evidence or research that you have collated in respect
of home educated children being included in the vulnerable
groups.
I personally feel that my children would be
MORE at risk actually attending a mainstream school where their
vulnerabilities can be more easily targeted when they are away from
1:1 care.
I think that you including home educated
children in this is slightly defamatory and indicating that home
educated children are not properly cared for, when our experience
of mainstream education is that our children are not appropriately
cared for or safeguarded which is why they were removed!
As a home educating family, we teach our
children right from wrong, about online safety, how to stay safe
when out and about etc etc. We are not stupid people and to put our
children in an ‘at risk’ group is ridiculous. We are
raising well informed citizens who are decent young people.
I understand that there will be children in an
abusive home, but this is not always picked up by mainstream
schools either.
Please set out any views on other groups of children on the
margins.
You may wish to identify other groups of children “on the
margins”. These would be groups of children in circumstances
that require a specific response from children’s services or
other statutory providers and for which there are concerns about
the current policy or practice.
If you have anything else you wish to share with us, please do
so below.