The Daily Post reports on Kirsty Williams’ very effective intervention in First Minister’s questions yesterday in which she accused the Assembly Government of pouring money into helping the least well-off without improving their prospects.
During exchanges in the Senedd, she said there were signs that two flagship anti-poverty schemes were failing.
Schools inspectors Estyn this week said the Raise programme had not delivered major changes in the performance of pupils who get free school meals.
Last week, a Wales Audit Office report said the Assembly Government could not demonstrate the impact of its ambitious £214 million Communities First policy.
The Assembly Government ended one Communities First sceme in West Rhyl from March, deeming progress there as inadequate.
Ms Williams said: “The fact is that your government pours money into this problem without any effect. It doesn’t change the chances for these particular children and these families.”
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While her intervention did pose necessary and difficult questions for the FM, can you confirm who was in Government when Communities First was brought into being?
Um…OOOHHH…UMM…Labour…and….um…yellow…bar charts…um…
It is a good try Marcus but hardly relevant. Communities First was of course launched during the Labour-Welsh Liberal Democrat Government but there have been two full scale reviews of it since then, which identified many of the issues raised by the Auditor and which should have led to changes that better focussed the scheme. I said as much on several occasions but Labour and the subsequent One Wales Ministers did not get to grips with what needed to be done.
” hardly relevant” rather apt description of the Lib Dems time in government perhaps?
*jokes*
That comment does you no credit either Marcus. I see you have easily fallen into the Plaid blogger mentality you were so quick to condemn. The Welsh Liberal Democrats achieved a great deal with very limited powers during their time in government.
*jokes* as in ‘i was telling a joke’, as in an ‘attempt at humour’.
I am my own man, regardless of what party i belong to. My blog speaks for itself, as do my comments on others. You know that.