Summer 2019 Wales’ best policy and politics magazine

Climate emergency Steve Brooks

Independence Nye Davies

Fair work Linda Dickens

ISSN 2059-8416 Print ISSN 2398-2063 Online contents: Summer 2019 Wales’ best policy and politics magazine Play it Again Don’t Sp rt miss out! SHOP Low Carbon Bargain sports kit FOR SALE FOR SALE Conference @ 18th July 2019 Copthorne Hotel, Steve Brooks Nye Davies Simon Jones 2 The land that cried wolf? 4 Are you indy-curious? 6 Terminally-ill people need Cardiff fast access to benefits Ynyshir, Aberdare & Treorchy Ynyshir, Aberdare & Treorchy Donations of sports kit also accepted 2 Environment: Steve Brooks 13 Housing: Jennie Bibbings 24 Bevan Foundation News #CHCLowCarb19 The land that cried wolf? Locked out of social housing Charity no. 515211 26 Subscriber News 4 Politics: Nye Davies 14 Well-being: Lauren Pennycook Are you indy-curious? Well-being in practice 27 Spotlight: Joe Logan Chief Executive, Tai Calon 5 Politics: Matthew Wall 16 Political voices: Community Housing Ltd. Keyboard warriors and the Leanne Wood AM Euro election Devolving welfare administration 28 Last word: Victoria Winckler POSITIF THINKING EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH HUGH JAMES Labour Law and to Wales Behind the political chaos 6 Health & social security: the Fair Work Agenda Simon Jones 17 Political Voices: Nick Smith MP Tuesday 16th July Terminally-ill people need Re-Tredegarise the NHS to tackle fast access to benefits our public health crisis 6pm – 7.30pm (join us at 5.30 for refreshments) Wales’ best policy and politics magazine

The Wales TUC is working in social partnership with Welsh Government to make Wales a fair work nation – with the extension of collective 8 Education: Kirtsy Williams AM 18 Q&A: Jane Hutt AM bargaining and union representation at the heart of delivery. Learning about relationships The ‘equality clause’ – where In May 2019 a report by the independent Fair Work Commission  was published in Wales, having been commissioned by Welsh it came from and what it does Government. The task of the Commission was to make evidence-  PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF AFFORDABLE based recommendations to promote and encourage fair work. 9 Education: Kathryn Robson HOUSING SUPPLY Evidence put to that Commission included policy ideas currently being developed by the Institute of Employment Rights around a The right to lifelong learning 20 Partner Profile: Manifesto for Labour Law and reflected in long established policy of RD MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2019 – 6PM the Wales TUC. The Open University in Wales HUGH JAMES OFFICES, CENTRAL SQUARE This meeting will update us on the IER manifesto, the TUC great jobs agenda and the work that the Wales TUC is undertaking with 10 Employment: Linda Dickens Fifty years of life-changing learning Welsh government to ensure that fair work through social partnership is delivered for workers throughout Wales. Fair work Speakers: 22 Film Review: Steffan Evans  ’”‹Ž ʹͲͳͻ ‡Ž•Š ‘˜‡”‡– ’—„Ž‹•Š‡† –Š‡‹” †‡’‡†‡– ‡˜‹‡™ ‘ˆ Kate Bell, Head of Rights, International, Social and Economics, TUC Bevan Foundation ˆˆ‘”†ƒ„Ž‡ ‘—•‹‰—’’Ž›ǤŠ‡’—”’‘•‡‘ˆ–Š‡”‡˜‹‡™™ƒ•–‘‡šƒ‹‡ —””‡– Dr Steve Davies, Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University 12 Housing: Tamsin Stirling A Northern Soul 145a High Street, ƒ””ƒ‰‡‡–••—’’‘”–‹‰–Š‡†‡˜‡Ž‘’‡–‘ˆƒˆˆ‘”†ƒ„Ž‡Š‘—•‹‰ƒ†–‘ƒ‡ John Hendy QC, Chair, Institute of Employment Rights Affordable homes ”‡ ‘‡†ƒ–‹‘• ˆ‘” Šƒ‰‡• †‡•‹‰‡† –‘ ‹ ”‡ƒ•‡ •—’’Ž› ƒ† ‹’”‘˜‡ Dr Lydia Hayes, Reader in Law, Cardiff University Merthyr Tydfil CF47 8DP Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd †‡Ž‹˜‡”›ˆ”‘–Š‡”‡•‘—” ‡•ƒ˜ƒ‹Žƒ„Ž‡Ǥ Chair: Carolyn Jones, Director, Institute of Employment Rights Tel. 01685 350 938 ‘‹—•ƒ–ƒ’ƒ‡Ž‡‡–‹‰–‘†‹• —••–Š‡”‡˜‹‡™™Š‡”‡™‡™‹ŽŽ„‡Œ‘‹‡†„›–Š‡ ‹‹•–‡” ˆ‘” ‘—•‹‰ ƒ† ‘ ƒŽ ‘˜‡”‡–ǡ —Ž‹‡ ƒ‡•  ƒ† Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, [email protected] ”‡’”‡•‡–ƒ–‹˜‡•‘ˆ–Š‡Š‘—•‹‰•‡ –‘”Ǥ King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT The views in articles, advertisements and news items in Exchange are those of the contributors www.bevanfoundation.org Žƒ ‡• ƒ”‡ Ž‹‹–‡† •‘ –‘ „‘‘ ›‘—” •’ƒ ‡ ’Ž‡ƒ•‡ ”‡•’‘† –‘ The meeting is free to attend. Please sign up via our Eventbrite page. Further details: IER 0151 207 5265; [email protected]. and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by Bevan Foundation Trustees, staff or other •—•ƒ̷’‘•‹–‹ˆǤ ›”— subscribers. All articles are copyright Bevan Foundation. bevanfoundation

Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 1 Environment: steve brooks

The land that cried wolf?

Steve Brooks, Director of Sustrans Cymru and former chair of Stop Climate Chaos Cymru, asks if Wales’ climate emergency is a smokescreen or the start of something new.

n April this year, the National chooses its candidate to face in sustainable development (how we Assembly for Wales became the Donald Trump in 2020. In the UK, balance human progress with the first parliament in the world to YouGov’s monthly issue tracker has environment) grew following the 1992 Ideclare a ‘climate emergency’. As seen the environment rise as an Earth Summit in Rio, when UN welcome a move as this is, what’s the ‘important issue facing the country’ member states came together to risk that such a declaration will act as making it the joint fourth most debate, resolve and collaborate on a smokescreen for business as usual? important issue alongside the major issues of sustainability. In Wales, On woodlands, Welsh Government makers and internationally renowned approach. Policy must no longer be The idea of declaring a ‘climate economy, behind only Brexit, health, the founding legislation for devolution is a long way from target. Its 2010 experts to discuss mitigation and watered down and not delivered. emergency’ has gained traction over and crime. One of the final acts of placed a statutory duty on the climate change strategy contained an adaption policy and practice. Crucially, On that, I am cautiously optimistic. the last six months. From Greta outgoing prime minister Theresa National Assembly to promote ambition to expand woodland area by it also provided a space for different The Welsh Government’s decision Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and May has been to throw her weight sustainable development. The 100,000 ha by 2030 (with an annual groups to engage, debate and not to proceed with the M4 relief the schools strikes movement, behind the UK Committee on principle was elevated in importance target of 5,000 ha per year). Canfor, collaborate; literally bringing green road, in part because of environmental people globally are again rising up in Climate Change’s recommendation by the One Wales Government of the timber industry body, estimated campaigners and big business into considerations, is significant. And protest at the inaction of of a net-zero greenhouse gas 2007-11, which made sustainable in 2018 that Welsh Government had the same room to discuss the way whilst the Welsh Government’s new governments the world over. A emissions target by 2050. development its ‘central organising only met 11 per cent of the target and ahead. This no longer happens and decarbonisation plan is not without catalyst for this global uprising was, principle’. Civil society, under the argued that this lack of delivery had is missed by all. The Commission’s its weaknesses, it has re-set the tone in many ways, the publication of a banner of Stop Climate Chaos, prompted a far less ambitious target Land Use Group was instrumental in within government and provided special report of the In April this year, the successfully overturned Welsh Labour to be adopted by the Woodlands for setting Welsh Government’s original fuel to renewed sustainability efforts. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate opposition to a 3 per cent annual Wales Action Plan. That plan set a woodland’s target; its Heavy Energy The forthcoming budget presents Change in October 2018. The National Assembly reduction in emissions (against a 1990 shorter-term target of establishing Users’ Group provided a link the next key test of Welsh special report looked at the impact for Wales became the baseline) and helped establish the 2,000ha of new woodland each year between energy policy makers and Government’s seriousness. The of global warming of 1.5°C above Climate Change Commission for by 2020 – less than half the original business; and, with the Sustainable budget should include a raft of pre-industrial levels and the actions first parliament in Wales: a body that brought together aim. For comparison, the UK Development Commission and new green measures to stimulate necessary to cut emissions. the world to declare a government and public sector, Committee on Climate Change Constructing Excellence, it provided renewable energy; retrofit housing The political impact of the IPCC NGOs, academics and experts, and recommends a woodland target of technical support and leadership to stock; decarbonise the transport special report and the global ‘climate emergency’. business. This in turn paved the way upward 4,000ha per year. the homebuilding sector on system; support sustainable land movement has been considerable. for Welsh Government’s 2010 In 2016, the Climate Change decarbonisation. management, strengthen eco- Climate change and environmental Climate Change Strategy. Commission for Wales was closed If the declaration of a Climate systems and encourage better diets. issues are rising up the political As much as I welcome a greater But that early pace of progress without formal consultation. The Emergency by the Welsh Crucially it should work with agenda. A green wave swept Europe political focus on climate change and during the first decade of devolution Commission brought together Government is to mean anything, business – including big business – during this year’s parliamentary the environment, we have been here fell back after 2011. Policy failed to delivery bodies, interest groups, policy it must represent a watershed in to protect and provide jobs within elections. The environment featured before. And in Wales, we must also match rhetoric in 2013, when Welsh all of this. Declaring an emergency strongly in the recent Danish and contend with the perennial problem Government rolled back from its demands emergency action; Wales Australian general elections of the ‘delivery gap’: when lofty climate change commitments, for If the declaration of a Climate Emergency by needs nothing less. (although the climate-sceptics won political rhetoric fails to translate example watering down emission the day down under), and it is into radical action on the ground. targets for homebuilding from a the Welsh Government is to mean anything, Steve Brooks writes in a becoming one of the defining issues The last time this agenda was in proposed 40 per cent reduction in it must represent a watershed in approach. personal capacity. for the US Democratic Party as it vogue was the 1990s. Political interest emissions to just 8 per cent.

2 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 3 politics: Nye Davies politics: Matthew Wall Keyboard warriors and Are you indy-curious? the Euro election

Nye Davies, a PhD student at the Wales Governance Centre Dr Matthew Wall, Associate Professor of Politics at Swansea University, at Cardiff University, looks at recent interest in independence for Wales. says that the dynamics of the digital world are shaping election results.

he ‘All Under One Banner’ living costs are the main causes of he recent European tailored messages to individuals or march for Welsh poverty in Wales, suggesting that elections were fascinating. small groups of voters reflecting independence that took solutions must be found for all three At the EU level, the results their priorities, interests, and Tplace in May this year drivers to end poverty. Tsignal a continuing erosion personalities. Most of the major garnered plenty of attention, with Some questions for advocates of of the popularity of the two centrist social media platforms facilitate this estimates placing the size of the independence must be: how would political groupings (the European sort of bespoke advertising (indeed, crowd at between two and three an independent Wales help solve People’s Party and the Progressive it is their unique selling point). This thousand people. poverty? What could an independent Alliance of Socialists and means that campaigns are less and One of the speakers at the march Wales achieve that cannot be Democrats). Here in the UK, the two less experienced as a collective, was Adam Price. Since becoming achieved as a member of the UK? major parties suffered a far more national conversation. It also means leader of Plaid Cymru in September, Would further changes to the vertiginous decline, with Labour that party volunteers on the ground, he has been very vocal about his This is certainly devolution settlement be sufficient finishing in third place and the who knock on doors and have party’s commitment to independence. to provide the necessary Conservatives fifth. The Brexit Party discussions with voters, can be For example, on BBC’s Question Time, a unique and mechanisms to address Wales’ and Liberal Democrats received over replicated by new parties with Price declared that if Boris Johnson unpredictable problems? All of these questions and 50 per cent of votes cast. Here I’d sufficiently large budgets. became Prime Minister of the United many more need to be answered like to reflect on the role of the A final interesting aspect is the Kingdom, he would likely be the last political climate. when thinking about Wales’ future internet in the campaign and argue increasing importance of non-party arguing that “if we Welsh had any constitutional arrangements. that certain dynamics of the digital campaign actors. For instance, Gina sense, we’ll declare ourselves an Although these are issues that world can help us to understand The web has created space for Miller launched a website, Remain independent country because the are or where you are from, if you live present considerable challenges, these results. highly ideological publications (such United, that provided tactical voting alternative of the United Kingdom in Wales then independence is your it is significant that politicians, The first trend that’s worth as The Canary on the left and Guido advice to support parties with under Boris Johnson is too horrible chance for a better future based on journalists and commentators in discussing is polarisation, which Fawkes on the right) and social anti-Brexit platforms. The site for us to imagine”. fairness and social justice. Wales are increasingly labelling refers to a growing number of voters media turns most web users into received over one million views in This is certainly a unique and Of course, while many people themselves as “indycurious”. There locating at extremes of opinion. content creators and publishers. the course of the campaign. Indeed, unpredictable political climate and may be inspired by this message, does appear to have been a shift in The European Parliament elections This expanded supply is several non-partisan ‘vote advice’ supporters of independence will questions about the economic the discussion on independence in favoured parties with clear, complimented by the enhanced sites operated across the campaign, seek to play on this uncertainty to viability of Welsh independence, as Welsh political circles. compelling Brexit messages over capacity that the web offers to filter offering users advice on which argue the case for an independent well as a future relationship with the The most recent set of polling parties seeking compromise with the political news that we receive. parties best aligned with their own Wales. A persistent complaint to rest of the UK and the EU, will be has placed support for Welsh the EU or holding unclear positions. Human nature means that we prefer policy preferences (examples emerge from the march was this: raised. Wales also faces a number independence at 12 per cent, Of course, Brexit is by its nature a information that confirms, rather include Who Gets My Vote? Westminster is not working for of serious problems that need meaning that it is still a long way off polarising issue because it aligns than challenges, our pre-existing And EUandI). Wales. The speakers at the event, addressing. For example, 24 per cent being the desire of the majority. But with national, socio-economic, beliefs – creating ‘echo chambers’ Overall, the web is shaping representing a variety of groups, all of the population live in poverty, with with increased publicity coupled and cultural identity fractures that which entrench our opinions. political campaigns and politics emphasised the belief that Wales has forecasts suggesting that 39 per cent with the uncertainty about the future divide Britain. However, the web A second, related trend is the more widely to an ever-greater been left behind, left to suffer under of children in Wales will be living in of the UK, there is every chance that exacerbates this tendency. personalisation of campaign extent. Understanding the dynamics austerity, while politicians fail to deal poverty by 2020/2021. The Bevan number may increase quickly, raising How does it do so? Well, in the content, which web scholars call of this medium is now key to with the Brexit crisis. The message Foundation has identified that unfair significant questions about Wales’ first place, by expanding the ‘micro-targeting’. Increasingly, electoral success and to having a was clear: that no matter who you work, the social security system and economic and constitutional future. available supply of political opinion. online campaigns are sending grip on most major political trends.

4 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 5 Health & social security: Simon Jones ‘reasonable expectation of death The current definition of terminal within six months’ with a clinical judgment made by an appropriate illness is outdated, arbitrary and health professional. not based on clinical reality. Over the coming months we will Terminally-ill people need be looking at ways in which we can secure the support of the National Assembly for Wales and, we hope, fast access to benefits on clinical reality. The definition is they die is outdated and does not the Welsh Government for this 30 years old – written in a time reflect the modern reality of many important change in the law. when many people were lucky to terminal conditions, where people survive for a matter of months with can live and need ongoing support conditions which, thanks to for several years with conditions that Simon Jones, UK Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Marie Curie, advances in treatment and care, they cause progressive debility over time. can now live with for longer. For a Marie Curie has been campaigning argues that the benefits system must be fair for all terminally-ill people. person who is terminally ill whose across the UK to secure change to condition will never improve and will the legislation which sets the rules on only deteriorate until their death, but faster access to benefits for people who may live for longer than six who are terminally ill. The Scotland magine the moment a person months, getting access to the Act 2016 devolved 11 social security hears from their doctor that they over in pain. I was like the benefits they need is made benefits to the Scottish Government. have a terminal illness – in that Hunchback of Notre Dame, unnecessarily difficult. Without that Marie Curie and MND Scotland Iinstant, nothing for them or their I couldn’t stand up. six-month prognosis, they are asked successfully campaigned to include a family will ever be the same again. I went to the doctor and they to go through the same benefits definition of terminal illness based on Their most profound wish after treated me for sciatica. My life application as any other person. clinical judgement in their new receiving that life-changing news is to has changed dramatically, Forcing somebody living with Scottish benefits legislation. The new spend the time they have left focusing so drastically. terminal illness to go through an definition now has no timescales: on what matters; time with their loved I can’t be on my own with my intrusive face-to-face assessment An individual is to be regarded as The Palliative Care All Party ones and living as well as they can for children. I can’t do the normal process is unfair and undignified – having a terminal illness for the Parliamentary Group’s inquiry as long as they are able. things that I would have done, unbelievably, this can even include purpose of determining entitlement recommends: The very least that people who are it hurts, I’m in too much pain.” asking people who have been to disability assistance if, having had • Amending the definition of living with the devastating impact of After her diagnosis, Martine diagnosed with a terminal illness to regard to the (Chief Medical Officer’s terminal illness in UK law a terminal diagnosis should be able applied for Personal attend work capability assessments. (CMO) guidance), it is the clinical so that a person is regarded to expect is quick and easy access to Independence Payments via Shamefully, between April 2013 and judgement of a registered medical as having a terminal illness the social security benefits they Martine’s story the DWP. April 2018, 17,000 people in Britain practitioner that the individual has a if it is the clinical judgment need. Sadly, many are not getting Martine Adams, 28, from Barry “I remember ringing PIP, died waiting for a decision on their progressive disease that can of a registered medical anything close to that, as Martine’s in Wales, was diagnosed in pressing the number for PIP claim, an average of 10 people reasonably be expected to cause the practitioner that they have a story and the quotes below show. January 2019 with a Diffuse terminal because I had been every day. individual’s death. progressive disease that can “My son died of a brain tumour at leptomeningeal glioneuronal told it was terminal, and the The six-month rule also wrongly The UK Government must make reasonably be expected to the age of 37, in 2016 – he was tumour, a rare cancer of the central lady on the phone said ‘hello, assumes that life expectancy can be the definition of terminal illness fit cause the individual’s death. permanently worried about benefits nervous system. Martine is married have you got six months or less accurately predicted. Studies have for the 21st century. It should follow and all the threats to assess him to Scott, who had acute myeloid to live?’ I said no, and she said shown that the accuracy of such Scotland’s lead by introducing • Adopting a light-touch review for work.” leukaemia from the age of 2 and ‘oh, well that’s what this is for.’ predictions ranges from 78 per cent clinical judgement of terminal illness of benefit awards under the The UK government’s current was only discharged last year. I remember questioning to just 23 per cent. Nearly a third of as the eligibility criterion for fast track Special Rules for Terminal definition of terminal illness is when “I was diagnosed this year, but I whether I was terminal, and GPs say they have never signed the access to benefits. In Westminster, Illness only after 10 years, with a person’s death can be “reasonably started to become unwell in the I second-guessed it.” form to support a fast-track benefits again with the MNDA, we have been the DWP only contacting the expected within six months.” If their August (2018 I was just crippled application for a condition other supporting Madeleine Moon, MP for claimant’s GP to confirm that doctor gives that prognosis, the than cancer. Bridgend, who presented the their diagnosis and prognosis individual has fast track access to a The assumption that people with Access to Welfare (Terminal Illness remains the same. range of benefits, such as Personal requirements (such as attending “My wife was terminally ill for over terminal illnesses will need support Definition) Bill 2017-19. The Bill Independence Payments (PIP), work-focused interviews) to receive three years – we effectively lost only for a matter of months until would replace the requirement of • Ending the practice of non- Disability Living Allowance, Universal Credit in full. Not getting everything we ever worked for and I specialist DWP assessors Attendance Allowance and access to the Special Rules can lead am now left with debts of over challenging and rejecting the Employment Support Allowance. to long delays and significant £20,000.” medical evidence provided by These ‘Special Rules for Terminal financial burdens for families as they The current definition of terminal In Britain 10 people a day die waiting clinicians to support a benefit Illness’ also mean that people don’t attempt to secure benefits through illness is unfit for purpose – it is for a decision on their PIP claim. claim under the Special Rules. have to have to meet work-related the ‘normal rules’ process. outdated, arbitrary and is not based

6 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 7 Education: Kirsty Williams AM Education: Kathryn Robson Learning about The right to relationships lifelong learning

Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education, argues that Kathryn Robson, Chief Executive of Adult Learning Wales, looks learning about the diversity of personal relationships at changes underway and how they might affect learners. is fundamental to a healthy and happy Wales.

he start of June sparked the rather than the wider issues I do not believe you can be too earning doesn’t stop at the It’s that kind of closeness with beginning of LGBT Pride surrounding relationships. young to be taught in school about school gate. In fact, for communities that also comes about Month – a month of great We have therefore recently respecting others and relationships. many, learning only starts through delivering equality of access Tcelebration across Wales. published new draft guidance, which However, I want to make it clear: we Lonce those gates are far to Welsh medium provision, Yet, this coincided with newly- will provide schools with additional are not looking to teach children behind them. In Wales, a supporting health and wellbeing elected Brexit MEP Ann support in respect of inclusivity, about topics for which they are not commitment to improve personal or initiatives and providing Widdecombe defending remarks LGBTQ+ as well as gender-based developmentally ready. RSE will professional development through opportunities for disabled people made in support of ‘gay conversion violence. This will help schools in taught in a way that is age- lifelong learning was formalised in that can help serve as a bellwether therapy’, adding that science could implementing a ‘whole school appropriate – for example, our December 2018 following an for individual and community needs. “produce an answer” to being gay. approach’; taking into account youngest would learn how to form agreement between the First Minister This time last year, funding As the Minister responsible for curriculum, wider school policies, happy and healthy relationships with and the Minister for Education. vulnerabilities and lack of clarity science, I’m tempted to ask our external sources of support and case friends and family. Adult Community Learning (ACL) around policy strategy for the future researchers to instead find an studies demonstrating best practice. The Foundation Phase already supports a wide range of formal, WEA Cymru (the Workers’ delivery of ACL in Wales resulted in a answer that explains such ill- We recognise that this must be provides learning for our youngest non-formal and informal learning Educational Association in Wales) consultation on the ‘delivery and informed prejudice and bigotry. accompanied by improved children in personal and social provision and is essential for all – and YMCA Wales Community structure of community-based adult In all seriousness, Ms professional learning for teachers. development, well-being and particularly those who are hardest College. We are proud to continue learning in Wales’. It sought Widdecombe’s remarks were a stark That is why last year I announced cultural diversity. Children also learn to reach, and furthest away from and build on the history and stakeholder views to help shape the reminder that the progress we have there would be changes to how to stay safe. As this learning is education and employment. Our successes of both predecessor future of ACL policy. We are awaiting made on equality remains fragile Relationships and Sexuality already delivered well, I would work and other research shows the organisations, which amounts to with interest the full outcomes and and is something we must continue Education (RSE) training in both expect to see similar approaches value of accessible education and over 100 years of providing adult decisions that emerge from the to defend. initial teacher education and within taken under the new curriculum. how enhancing skills makes a real education and skills. We are also the consultation. I am determined that education the existing profession. Additional The relationships we form difference to people’s lives. only National Community College In our response to the in Wales is inclusive and based on funding has been made available to throughout our lives are crucial. It is crucial that we nurture the skill and Democratic Movement for adult consultation we contended that any values of respect for others. It is support teachers’ professional They make us feel safe, they make of learning over a lifetime to secure community learning in Wales. Every proposed reform of current strategy important to me that our young learning needs. us happy and they give us comfort. informed, flexible, intelligent and year, we work with 13,000 adult should be modern, efficient and people learn about their rights, and I have also announced that RSE They are integral to how we grow as healthy workforces and learners to upskill and gain provide added value. We also believe those of others, and appreciate a will be statutory within our new people and a society. How we form communities. The economic, social qualifications in over 30,000 that it must be socially responsible fundamental truth: there is nothing curriculum. It will be recognise the these relationships is determined at and civic advantages of developing learning activities. and sustainable. Adult and unusual about being LGBTQ+. importance of diversity and a very young age and they are a truly lifelong learning society in We also have partnerships with community learning is part of the We’ve made good progress over difference across a range of essential to our ability to prosper.By Wales are profound, where this over 200 organisations, including fabric of Welsh society and the last two years. Firstly, we identities related to relationships, taking forward the would provide the cutting-edge employers from the third Sector, enhanced ACL would help ensure established an expert panel to look sex, gender, sexuality - and that this recommendations of the expert needed for our communities to be universities, colleges, local authorities every citizen across Wales has the at the sex and relationships diversity is fundamental to a panel and driving real improvements resilient, for our economy to adapt and Wales TUC. Partnerships like right to lifelong learning. Although education curriculum, gather cohesive, fair and equitable society. in the quality of RSE provision, I am to changing circumstances and for these are vital for maintaining a not yet known, we hope that this will evidence and provide us with There has been some debate, proud that together we are our democracy to thrive. coherent, fair and equitable help inform the Welsh Government’s recommendations. The panel found particularly in England, about the contributing to making Wales a Addysg Oedolion Cymru | Adult approach, allowing more adults to approach and secure the future of that too many schools simply taught age at which young people will be healthier, happier and more Learning Wales was formed be educated and trained in their the ACL movement for all adult biological aspects of sex education, learning about sex and relationships. connected place. following a merger in 2015 between communities and their workplaces. learners across Wales.

8 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 9 employment: Linda Dickens regional or sector / industry basis or, are necessary in their own right for example, focussed on small firms to further fair work but which are and micro business. important also in engendering a A Fair Work Wales Forum would favourable context for the comprise the social partners, recommended legislative and employers and unions, with an economic levers. Among these, we independent expert element and recommend the Welsh Government Fair Work involve other relevant stakeholders. take action to create interest, It would agree what is an enthusiasm and buy-in for fair work. appropriate and proportionate This includes spreading awareness expectation within its particular and ownership of the fair work context in relation to our agenda and demonstrating the Prof. Linda Dickens, chair of the Fair Work Commission, recommended universal fair work importance of fair work both for characteristics, providing tailored social justice and in terms of the explains how its findings contribute to national growth and Fair Work Wales Standards against demonstrable gains it can deliver for prosperity and to reducing inequality and poverty. which organisations could be individuals, business, communities assessed, and self-assess. Forums and the economy. could help tailor specific, cross- The Welsh Government and other employer interventions to address public sector bodies must lead by ast summer the then First wider multi-stakeholder dialogue is indicators for each of the six identified fair work problems within example as active and visible Fair Minister appointed me to integral to driving forward the fair characteristics. For example, their particular setting. We propose Work Wales organisations. This is chair and help establish an work agenda. A number of indicators of ‘fair reward’ include: feasibility studies and recommend a important both in ‘demonstrating by Lindependent Fair Work recommendations relate to this, fair evaluation of work; adherence to start be made by setting up Fair doing’ and because of the size and Commission. The challenging including enhancing the institutions relevant collective agreements; the Work Wales Forum in Social Care. composition of the public sector deadline of March 2019 for of social partnership and placing real Living Wage as the minimum Turning to how fair work can be workforce in Wales. We recommend evidence-based recommendations them on a statutory basis. wage floor for all working hours; promoted, there are limits to what is not devolved. Fair Work Wales how the government can use its on how to promote and encourage pay transparency; non- the Welsh Government can do advocates the ‘something for influence to inspire and encourage fair work in Wales was met and the discriminatory pay systems; legislatively within the current something’ principle in the use of others, and deploy its convening Commission’s report, Fair Work Fair Work Wales equitable pay and reward with devolution settlement. This reserves public money. The Welsh power to mobilise fair work allies Wales, has now been published. action plans for achieving this. ‘employment rights and duties and Government has introduced including trade unions, other civil The Commission considered both advocates the A Fair Work Wales organisation industrial relations…’ to the UK important innovations – the society organisations, independent ‘what’ and ‘how’. Fair Work Wales ‘something for will meet (or actively be working Government. However we identify Economic Contract, the Code of experts and responsible business. defines fair work, its characteristics towards) all six characteristics, with areas within legislative competence Practice: Ethical Employment in In our deliberations the Commission and components, and explores levers something’ principle the integrated equality dimension. of importance to fair work, for Supply Chains. We recommend paid careful attention to the many (legislative, economic and others) in the use of There should be no trade-off example forwarding fair work via ways of strengthening and extending submissions received through our available to the Welsh Government to between characteristics as their equality legislation measures, these to ensure those benefitting call for evidence, to research drive fair work forward. It also sets public money. coupling is important – for example agricultural wage setting and the from public money are Fair Work findings, and to views expressed out how progress should be the interaction between hourly pay goals of the Well-Being of Future Wales organisations. Work is during our consultations. We have measured and reported. and the number and security of Generations (Wales) Act. Fair Work recommended to shift the focus and developed achievable The Commission is finished but We define fair work as where hours worked. Becoming and being Wales also details steps to be taken priorities of public sector recommendations, providing a the work is not. Fair Work Wales workers are fairly rewarded, heard a fair work employer should be seen to improve the enforcement and contracting towards social value, practical way forward. Inevitably recommends a number of and represented, secure and able to as a continuous journey; a process effectiveness of existing including fair work. Recognition and some have resource implications. institutional mechanisms to provide progress in a healthy, inclusive rather than a fixed event. We employment legislation. use of the Fair Work Wales Without them, however, there is a the necessary capacity and ensure environment where rights are recommend measures to support Economic levers for fair work are Standard(s) should be incorporated risk that fair work will be simply an meaningful progress and delivery. respected. There are six and assist willing employers in particularly important when the law into the Economic Contract, the expressed aspiration without follow- One is a necessary linchpin - the characteristics within the undertaking that journey. Code and procurement policy. through or impact and the potential Office for Fair Work, a dedicated recommended definition: fair Whilst it is important that there Research evidence demonstrates contribution of fair work to national resource within Welsh Government, reward; employee voice and should be no exceptions, what is There is a risk that that important fair work objectives, growth and prosperity, to reducing not located within any particular collective representation; security achievable in relation to each and a reduction in inequality, are inequality and poverty may be lost. department, to which we allocate a and flexibility; opportunity for defined characteristic will vary with fair work will be served by union presence and number of functions. Fair work access, growth and progression; context. Detailed requirements need collective bargaining. We simply an expressed Members of the Wales Fair requires action beyond the scope of safe, healthy and inclusive working to be nuanced by particular industry, recommend public policy support Work Commission were Linda any single Ministerial portfolio; the environment, legal rights respected sector, firm or occupational aspiration without for trade unions and collective Dickens (chair), Sharanne Office for Fair Work will assist the and given substantive effect. The characteristics. We set out a role bargaining as a further lever for Basham-Pyke, Edmund Heery all-important integration across promotion of equality and inclusion here for social partnership and follow-through promoting fair work. and Sarah Veale. Alan Felstead different policy fields. is integral to all six characteristics. multi-stakeholder dialogue in Fair Fair Work Wales discusses the or impact. was advisor to the Commission. Tripartite social partnership and Fair Work Wales provides detailed Work Wales Forums established on a desirability of other measures which

10 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 11 Housing: Tamsin Stirling Housing: Jennie Bibbings Locked out Affordable homes of social housing

Tamsin Stirling, an independent housing consultant and trustee of the Jennie Bibbings, campaigns manager at Shelter Cymru, highlights Bevan Foundation, looks at the recent review of affordable housing supply how old rent arrears stop people getting a decent home. and asks what it means for people on low incomes.

arly May saw the launch of settlement, when announced by the hen Alison and Gwyn for years, completely bypassed by all the eagerly-awaited final Minister for Housing and Local first made contact the positive changes in service report from the Independent Government in July 2019, will be at with Shelter Cymru, culture that have made Welsh social EReview of Affordable the Consumer Price Index plus one Wthe married couple housing more person-centred, more Housing Supply. The starting point per cent. This is interesting as the were living on the streets. Initially trauma-aware, more compassionate. for the review was that the current review of rent policy for Welsh the council had refused to give them In two local authorities, people are system has considerable weaknesses Government noted: temporary accommodation but we excluded from social housing if they and does not make the best use of ‘Any policy uplift of more than CPI managed to get this decision have private rented arrears – resources – financial or otherwise. + 0.5% would see Welsh rents changed, by helping the couple to absurdly keeping people out of One of the things that immediately exceed those in the north and access GP services while also affordable housing because they struck me is how similar the key land and rent policy. They include midlands of England, while even persuading the council that because can’t afford market rents. themes of the report are to those simplified standards for new homes CPI-only increases would see rents of their health issues they should be It’s not uncommon for people to explored by the Essex Review with an increased focus on continue to move ahead of earnings.’ seen as vulnerable. be expected to pay back arrears that published back in 2008. This is achieving near-zero carbon A recommendation that ‘an explicit Nine months later, Gwyn and are eight or more years old. Such perhaps unsurprising. When it emissions; a partnership or regional annual assessment on cost Alison are still in temporary debts will be statute barred, meaning comes to building homes that can approach to funding of affordable efficiencies should be part of the accommodation. they can’t be claimed via the courts, be let at a rent that is affordable to housing with an expectation of rationale for justifying any rent They are trying their very best to and will have been written off as bad people who are on a low income, ‘stretching’ grant and based on a increase’ could help. However, how get into the form of housing they debt years ago. there are a limited number of factors five-year time period; consolidating cost efficiencies and, more broadly, need, which is social housing. Often it is statutory homelessness at play. The most significant are: a number of funding streams that value for money are defined and However, their best is still not good services that have to bear the financial • factors that influence the cost of currently support new housing; local interpreted will be key as to what enough. The barrier they’re facing is brunt, either by funding extended building or acquiring homes authorities having access to grant; impact this might have on actual the same one that’s keeping an stays in temporary accommodation or (planning, land costs, construction and creation of an arm’s-length rent increases. estimated 3,000 other households in consideration the couple’s history by meeting landlords’ demands for or repair methods and costs, body responsible for public land The review report states that the Wales out of social housing. of rough sleeping and their lump sum payments. required standards); management. There is significant implementation of its Alison and Gwyn have old arrears considerable health issues, but Last year a study by independent • the balance between investment emphasis throughout the report on recommendations will have a with a different social landlord. with no luck so far. consultants HQN concluded, ‘We made by government and the partnership working to address significant positive impact on the Nobody disputes that these debts And this is in no way a unique found little evidence to suggest need for housing associations and issues of capacity and skills and on number of affordable homes that need to be paid, and the couple are case. Shelter Cymru sees many housing providers were offering local authorities to borrow money value for money. will be built in the coming years. Put making payments – but the policy people who because of their old incentives for full and final and therefore pay it back; and On rent policy – vital to any together with the increasing levels of requires them to pay every week for arrears are excluded from the settlements to clear debts and so in • the efficiency and effectiveness consideration of affordability – the poverty across Wales, ongoing eight consecutive weeks before they housing register. As a result they are many situations prospective tenants of how resources are deployed in recommendations do not include changes to welfare, and stagnating can be placed on the housing register. stuck in homelessness, or in poor were being forced to look elsewhere.’ building, repairing and Community Housing Cymru’s call wages for many of those on low If they miss a week – which they quality private rented housing, or in Over recent years so much has managing homes. for local rent setting by housing incomes, the anticipated rate of rent have occasionally done, as their temporary accommodation. changed for the better in Welsh The report sets out 22 main associations. Instead, a five-year increases raises the question of what benefits are fortnightly – they have There’s been little scrutiny or social housing culture, reflected by a recommendations in 8 areas, social rent settlement from Welsh proportion of these homes will be to go right back to the beginning. transparency of former tenant steady reduction in evictions. It’s including standards, financing Government is called for. It is widely truly affordable to households living We are trying to get the council to arrears policies. As a result many time for former arrears policies to affordable housing, public sector anticipated that the five-year on the lowest incomes. exercise some flexibility, taking into policies have remained set in stone come into the spotlight.

12 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 13 Well-being : Lauren Pennycook Around the world, the approach to spaces and sectors. We believe that Community Plans more effectively; well-being differs in scale and there is much our colleagues in to improve local well-being; and to strategy. In Wales, a well-being Northern Ireland can learn from deliver public services which reflect approach is being delivered through others’ commitment to put well- and respond to citizens’ needs. legislation; in New Zealand through a being at the heart of government. With the Trust’s convening power, well-being budget; and in Ecuador In a study visit to New York, our stakeholder relationships and through a National Plan for Buen Vivir. project participants met with those historic work in Northern Ireland, Well-being in practice In Northern Ireland, the well-being embodying international best along with the participants’ of communities is planned and practice in North America, such as openness and willingness to delivered through Community involving civil society; effective participate, together we are Planning, a new way of working in communication with citizens; and committed to delivering public Northern Ireland. This approach using well-being data for outcomes- services centred around well-being. Lauren Pennycook, Senior Policy and Development Officer involves a focus on outcomes; based policy decisions. Closer to We hope that the learning generated partnerships; and planning for home, in a mutual learning and through our project can be taken by at the Carnegie UK Trust, explains how a visit to Wales is priorities over more than a decade. exchange visit hosted by the Bevan others – in Wales, New Zealand, helping to improve well-being in Northern Ireland. With Northern Ireland’s eleven Foundation, our participants met Ecuador and elsewhere – and Community Plans launched, the with their counterparts in Wales and applied to local conditions. That way Community Planning Partnerships found out how the Well-being of improvements in the policy-making must now deliver - they must move Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 process in Northern Ireland can from rhetoric to reality. has enabled Wales to improve the translate into progress in improving Our research and stakeholders well-being of citizens. well-being beyond our three local told us that there was scope to Although the political realities, authority areas. support the Community Planning Partnerships to make this transition. They identified potential to support We are committed to delivering public key processes such as community engagement with the Plans; to help services centred around well-being. analyse and visualise data at the local level; and to work effectively with ‘unusual friends’. histories and systems of public To meet this need, and to build on services may be different in these What is well-being? the legacy of the Carnegie jurisdictions, what the Trust seeks to For the Carnegie UK Trust, Roundtable on Measuring Well- facilitate is the spark of policy well-being, put simply, means being in Northern Ireland, the Trust learning, not policy transfer. There living well. developed a new project designed are an ever-growing number of Societal well-being means to offer significant financial and well-being initiatives around the everyone having what they in-kind support to three Community world, of all ages and stages, with need to live well now and in Planning Partnerships. pockets of knowledge, expertise, the future. The project supports the success, and learning from participants – Armagh, Banbridge challenge, which can help our More than health and and Craigavon Borough Council; participants to deliver their, and our wealth, it includes longer- Derry City and Strabane District own, outcomes. term considerations like the Council; and Lisburn and As an operating Trust with a Trust environment as well as things Castlereagh City Council – to deed to improve the well-being of that matter most directly to overcome challenges which they people across the UK and Ireland, people in there here and now have identified as a priority. As part the outcomes we seek through the like having friends and loved There is much our colleagues in Northern Ireland can learn about of a three-year programme, a Embedding Well-being in Northern ones, the ability to contribute peer-to-peer support model allows Ireland project are inextricably linked meaningfully to society and the putting well-being at the heart of government. the Community Planning to those of our participants. We are ability to make choices about Partnerships to learn from each striving to improve peer-to-peer and our own lives. other and from international best international policy learning; achieve Well-being is measured he tensions and trade-offs and to work with new partners to community in need and no practice, and to share this with their greater policy coherence between internationally, nationally and of a well-being approach deliver outcomes for all. However, at crucial service falls from the public counterparts in elsewhere in levels of government; and improve locally through the three pillars are well known. An a time of restricted public finances, policy agenda? That is what a Northern Ireland. partnership working across sectors. of material conditions, quality Temphasis on well-being how are policy makers performing delegation from Northern Ireland set The Carnegie UK Trust is an These will help to deliver the of life and environmental asks policy makers to think this balancing act and how do we out to explore when they visited advocate for identifying and learning outcomes sought by our sustainability. holistically, to look to the long-term, ensure that no outcome, no Wales recently. from unusual friends, across places, participants, namely to deliver their

14 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 15 political voices: Leanne Wood AM political voices: Nick Smith MP Devolving welfare Re-Tredegarise the NHS to administration to Wales tackle our public health crisis

Leanne Wood, Plaid Cymru AM for Rhondda, makes the Nick Smith, Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent, outlines his vision for case for devolution of the administration of benefits. community-led solutions to tackling obesity-driven diseases.

usterity has had a trapped in abusive relationships. n 1946, the Health Secretary adults, meaning that tackling devastating impact on the Staff could tackle the pervasive Aneurin Bevan guided his childhood obesity is the key to communities I represent in sanction culture that has caused so landmark National Health improving health overall. Athe Rhondda. It is evident in many injustices. The Welsh IService Bill through Parliament Part of the solution is at UK the casework our office deals with Government could also pay housing in the face of sustained opposition. Government level, like common- and has been laid bare by academics benefits directly to landlords to One Conservative MP said it would sense changes to advertising high fat and researchers in numerous reports. prevent arrears building up. This was lead to a “an unimaginative and a foods which are currently being Perhaps the starkest evidence came the model that was recommended pedestrian health service”. The bill consulted on. Another is the Welsh from the United Nation’s Special by the Equality, Local Government duly passed and July 1948 saw the Government’s Healthy Weight, Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip and Communities Committee and official creation of our most Healthy Wales Plan. Alston. I had the opportunity to put was endorsed by the Bevan cherished institution and world- But a huge part of the solution lies in my views to him when he visited the Foundation and the Trussell Trust. leading health service. Its anniversary local communities, with activities like National Assembly for Wales The Welsh Government could also is important for everyone but is Parkrun, Couch to 5k and the Daily Equalities, Local Government and consider taking on the same particularly poignant for those of us Mile that encourage schoolchildren Communities committee to take responsibilities and autonomy as in Bevan’s hometown of Tredegar to take the recommended number of evidence. His report outlines the Scotland. Since 2016, the Scottish and across Blaenau Gwent. steps a day. Making sure that they are inequality that has grown over the Government has had control over 11 Nye was a son of the Sirhowy well resourced and fully connected last decade. His verdict that the UK welfare benefits and can create new valley. He worked in the Ty Trist, with the NHS is essential, for instance Government has been “designing a could now have a Welsh benefits in devolved policy areas. Bedwellty Pits and Pochin collieries; through increasing the number of GP digital and sanitised version of the Government that is prepared to both There would be an element of becoming a union leader, a local practices partnering with local 19th Century workhouse, made listen to the merits of taking financial risk and would require a far councillor, Member of Parliament parkruns and more social prescribing. infamous by Charles Dickens” should administrative control of the benefits stronger fiscal framework, but there and then Health Secretary. He took Bevan said that “preventable pain have given the UK government a jolt. system and lobby for it. At the very are strong potential benefits of the principles he’d seen drive is a blot on any society” and that Instead they responded with denial least, the Welsh Government should having parity with Scotland. Tredegar’s Medical Aid Society and “much sickness and often and incredulity. have powers to change the Compelling evidence from the applied them to the whole country permanent disability arise from Wales must now take matters into adversarial relationship between trusted Wales Governance Centre to tackle the scourges of the time: failure to take early action”. He was our own hands. I have long argued claimants and the Department for concluded the Welsh budget could polio, TB and industrial diseases. He We all owe a debt to Nye for right then and his words still for the devolution of the Work and Pensions. Devolution of be boosted by £200m a year if we called this “Tredegarisation”. establishing the NHS but we must resonate today. administration of benefits. Until the administration of benefits would had the same powers as Scotland. Nye had three goals: to relieve renew his mission. After years of The health challenges of 2019 recently, my calls were batted away allow payments to be made Given it has taken this long just to suffering, to “lift the shadow” of increase, life expectancy is in are different to the ones that Nye by Labour Ministers, mainly using fortnightly or even weekly, instead get the Labour Government to listen illness from millions of homes and decline. Driven by obesity; diabetes, stared down over 70 years ago, but ‘straw man’ arguments about the of monthly as is the case now. This and move towards action, I want us to “keep very many people alive who heart disease and cancers claim and the need for sustained action cost to Wales and how our citizens would help households with low to take control as soon as possible. might otherwise be dead.” In 1948, limit many lives. In Wales, 27 per remains. As he demonstrated, would be treated differently to those and fluctuating incomes. The Our number one aim must be to lift men and women could expect to live cent of four and five-year olds are solutions to the toughest challenges in England. But as the pinches in the Government could decide to pay as many people out of the crushing until they were 66 and 71; for people overweight or obese – a figure often lie with local communities. system become more severe, those benefits to individuals rather than poverty that already blights the lives born in 2019, those numbers are 86 which is even higher in more 71 years on, let’s follow in Nye’s arguments run out. households to protect people from of one in three children in Wales, and and 89. As a result of his work, many deprived areas. Up to 80 per cent footsteps and finish the next phase Under a new First Minister, we financial manipulation and those in some communities, one in two. killers of the past are vanquished. of obese children remain obese as of Tredegarising the NHS.

16 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 17 Q & A: Jane Hutt am There was widespread recognition that there was a deficit in representative democracy in Wales.

The ‘equality clause’ – where leadership manifesto. When I was Finance Minister, I set up the Budget Advisory Group to consider gender budgeting options, it came from and what it does which are now being piloted. I also took forward the policy developments on Equality Impact Assessments and the Code of Practice Jane Hutt reflects on how equality became a key theme in Wales’ – Ethical Employment in Supply devolution settlement twenty years ago and its impact today. Jane is Chains. These are just some examples now Deputy Minister and Chief Whip in the Welsh Government. the practical tools we use every day to deliver the equality clause.

What difference has having You were key in introducing the At the time, was the proposal well was clear that her strong the equality clause made to the “equality clause” into the 1998 received or did you face resistance? commitment was needed to drive Welsh Government’s and Government of Wales Act. How did the draft clause fare as it the clause through Parliament. Assembly’s business? Where did the idea for putting passed through Parliament? The equality clause reflects the fact equality into the devolution We were clear that devolution that equality and human rights are legislation come from? provided a unique opportunity to Devolution provided built into the DNA of the Welsh And how did it develop? change Wales fundamentally if we a unique opportunity Government – they are embedded I was part of a strong team of secured a statutory duty to have due in our foundations and in all the equality champions, drawing from regard to equality of opportunity to change Wales Government of Wales Acts, which women’s organisations, political embedded in the new Assembly. have followed devolution. parties and equality groups, The strength of the campaign to fundamentally. These principles underpin and guide backing devolution in the Yes for place equality at the heart of the everything successive Welsh Wales campaign. Val Feld – who Government of Wales Act was Was having the equality clause in Governments have done to the would become the AM for Swansea formidable, alongside our place enough? What else did you extent it can be difficult to West – played a leading role as determination to address the woeful do to increase equality in the distinguish our equality work from About Jane Hutt AM director of the Equal Opportunities lack of representation of women and Assembly’s early years? other policy. They are normally Commission and a member of the under-represented groups in local The clause in the Government Education: University of Kent, the London School of Economics one and the same, which is as it National Advisory Group and government and at Westminster and of Wales legislation ensures that and Bristol University. should be. Treasurer of the Yes for Wales reflect this in our decision making via the Welsh Government has to Career: Co-ordinator, Welsh Women’s Aid; Director, TPas You can see the commitment to campaign. I was director of Chwarae the equality duty. account annually for its actions and and Director, Chwarae Teg. Elected to South supporting our poorest and most Teg and Julie Morgan MP was a key Promoting equality measures was progress made in achieving equality Glamorgan County Council 1981 and to the National disadvantaged citizens in countless ally in Westminster and helped to also recognised in the National of outcomes. Assembly for Wales in 1999. Has served as Minister Welsh Government policies – from take the clause through the Assembly Advisory Group leading to A key campaign on equal pay was for Health and Social Services; Budget and Assembly free prescriptions to flying start, the Parliamentary process. the development of the standing Business; Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and holiday hunger scheme, the All of us had been involved in orders of the new institution. There Skills; Finance and Chief Whip. independent living scheme and the securing positive action for the fair was widespread recognition from gender review. Section 120 of The Government Outside work: Walking, enjoying music, being a grandmother and a representation of women in the civil society that there was a deficit You can also see it in the way we of Wales Act (1998) was carer to her mother. National Assembly, with the Labour in representative democracy in work with and engage with people replaced by section 77 of the Party’s twinning of constituencies Wales, which did not reflect the throughout Wales including people Government of Wales Act (one woman, one man), which rich diversity of Wales and in promoted by Edwina Hart and Sue That’s why the Welsh Government with protected characteristics and (20016) which states that: transformed the makeup of the new particular, women, who make up Essex, including a joint campaign has delivered such legislation as the disadvantaged communities. Groups Assembly. The equality clause in the half of the population (still evident The Welsh Ministers must make with the Wales TUC. Violence Against Women, Domestic such as the Wales Race Forum, the Government of Wales Act was an in local government). appropriate arrangements with However, it is clear that the clause Abuse and Sexual Violence Act, the Disability Equality Forum and the essential prerequisite to the Julie Morgan MP recalls the a view to securing that their on its own is not enough. That is Equality Act 2010, Welsh public Refugees and Asylum Seekers devolution of powers to Wales to passage of the clause through functions are exercised why there is a clearer focus now on sector duties, the Gender Review Taskforce, which I chair, provide a ensure we had the opportunity to Parliament and says there was with due regard to the principle assessing the impact of our policies and the recent announcement of level of access to Welsh Ministers deliver on powers and policies recognition of the need for this that there should be equality of and legislation on achieving equality the enactment of the socio- which is unique. These forums are which would promote equality clause backed by the UK Labour opportunity for all people. of outcome for those who are most economic duty in the Equality Act vital in holding us to account and of opportunity. Government and Welsh MPs, but it adversely affected by inequality. – a key pledge in Mark Drakeford’s helping to shape future policy.

18 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 19 partner profile: The Open University in Wales Earning a Masters degree at 39 was full time, was tricky. You can develop to question different viewpoints and such an amazing experience. a stronger sense of you, of to develop education routes that Learning for me at an early age confidence in your own ability. can change lives. didn’t mean anything much at all – It can’t compare with other dodging responsibility until much universities where you must turn up Darren: Fifty years of later in life, I think that Tonypandy to be counted. You can do it in your Linked to that, one of the exciting Comprehensive lad in 1991 would own space, in your own time. You challenges when you look at adult have been quite pleased the way can flex it to fit your life. community learning, is how we can things turned out! all working together across sectors life-changing learning Darren: to create pathways into higher Lynnette: Yes, it’s that opportunity to interact education. Anyone who has ever In my late 20s, I wanted to reach the with students who are far removed worked in community development As The Open University celebrates its fiftieth birthday, Lynnette next stage of my career, and there from your everyday life. Having will tell you – informal learning can Thomas, Deputy Director at the OU in Wales and Darren Jones, appeared to be a glass ceiling, so I exposure to people from different be the foundation for getting decided to look around for an MBA backgrounds helps with confidence people back into education and Partnerships Manager, discuss the impact it has had on their [Master of Business Administration] to as well. To engage with people you meaningful work. personal and professional lives, and the future of adult learning. do part time. I moved around quite a wouldn’t otherwise engage with. lot so the OU was an obvious choice. I think right now there’s a huge Lynnette: opportunity for part-time learning in I think we have the policy Darren: Darren: Wales, particularly with the changes environment, the funding I can remember watching the OU on It became an obvious choice for me to funding that have been environment and the political will telly as a young boy. A bearded guy as well. Ten years ago, I did a post- introduced by the Welsh in Wales to make a real difference, doing the gravity thing with a bucket graduate course with a red brick Government, part-time learning has to be disruptive, to make things full of water, swinging it over his head university. It took me four years. It never been more affordable than it is happen. Just like we did when the to show how it works, I loved it! meant going in once a month and right now in Wales. OU was created 50 years ago. doing the rest remotely. When I Lynnette: came to the OU to work, I had the Lynnette: Darren: I can always remember the OU chance to sign up for the MBA. If The new funding has made a huge The OUs legacy is inspiring people being there, it’s iconic. I remember you’ve done a part-time postgrad difference. It’s giving us the chance through learning. If that isn’t our being a small child with the degree with a traditional university, to talk to employers as well as legacy, then we need to question television on early in the morning, and then gone on to study with the individual students. We’re working why we’re here. We are there in seeing the lecturers talking about OU, the difference in astounding – with them to help employees to every community and we have the things I didn’t understand, and just particularly how organised the upskill and reskill. We want them to ability to interact with every family waiting for the children’s online content is. have access to our short courses in every home throughout Wales programmes to come on! through continuous professional and across Britain. Lynnette: development, through our degree Darren: I have a huge amount of respect for apprenticeships or employees Lynnette: Oh yes definitely - I was fascinated you Darren, in terms of going back to working towards their degrees or I’d say the legacy of the OU is to by these programmes as a child, but Lynnette Thomas (left) with Darren Jones (right). learning when you had small children. postgraduate studies through demonstrate innovative and no-one else in my family was modules suited to their interests and sustainable lifelong learning. It’s remotely interested in talking about My gran died suddenly and my Erasmus scheme. I really had my Darren: their employers. never too late to study. It’s never it, I was an OU fan even as a child! cousin, who was 29, died the day eyes opened by education generally. Ah, thanks. I’ve got a wonderful too late to have a second, third, after her funeral in a car accident partner who enabled me to do it as Darren: fourth, fifth chance, to obtain a Lynnette: and that threw me totally off course. Darren: well! If you’ve got a supportive What’s important for me, as part of a university degree. It’s accessible, My brother in law has a degree with I just gave up on my A-levels, so I My experience of education was partner it just makes the work so new team, is creating those links, it’s flexible. I’m really excited to see the OU. He left school, and then left school with only three basic totally different to that. I didn’t really much easier. Some of our students making those relationships within what the OU can do in the next studied with the OU later. He now GCSEs to my name. think about returning to learning are also on their own, with children the further education sector, with fifty years. runs his own finance company. The until just before my first child was or caring for a loved one and make businesses, schools, voluntary and OU has helped facilitate this, and he Lynnette: born. This really changed my time for their study. I’m just in awe the public sectors. is always a great advocate. I had a more traditional pathway perception of myself - aspiring to a of them. Many are studying at The Open University in Wales is although I was the first in my family worthwhile career. I embarked upon almost full-time intensity too! Lynnette: one of the Bevan Foundation’s Darren: to have a degree and came from an an access course at Ystrad Mynach There are deep divides in many new partners. For more I didn’t manage to finish either of my economically disadvantaged area. I College in my 20s and then, busy Lynnette: communities as a result of the EU information on the OU in A-levels I wasn’t studying hard worked hard in school, did well with family and a new career in I know, it’s so inspiring to see that referendum. There are chances to Wales, their partnership work enough as I had challenges going on academically and went away to community development, I every day. I did the bulk of my formal work in communities which feel and funding for part-time in my family at the time that really university. I was able to live abroad eventually returned to learning again education before I had children. disenfranchised, who feel left behind. students visit affected me, a couple of tragedies. as a European student through the in my 30s as an older adult. Finding time, when I was working Studying with the OU enables people open.ac.uk/wales

20 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | Summer 2019 Summer 2019 | Bevan Foundation Exchange | 21 arts & culture: Steffan Evans Film Review: A Northern Soul

Steffan Evans, policy & research officer at the Bevan Foundation, reviews Sean McAllister’s documentary ‘A Northern Soul’.

nequality and poverty are themes that have increasingly been explored in British cinema Iover recent years. From Ken Loach’s critically acclaimed I Daniel Blake, to Paul Sng’s documentary Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, the impact of Viewers are therefore left in no doubt that a better a world is government policy and individual circumstance on both families and possible if we all work together to seek to achieve it. broader society have been brought to public attention. The latest film to do so is Sean McAllister’s compelling film does highlight the harsh reality changed for working class people. how one individual can really and powerful documentary, of life for Steve, it does so in a way In between scenes of the “Beats Bus” make a difference, no matter what A Northern Soul. that never crosses a line to cast him or Steve struggling to make ends barriers they come up against. Two years have now passed since as a pitiful character. meet, McAllister cuts to scenes of Viewers are left in no doubt that a Hull was the UK’s city of culture, Managing the difficult balance his own parents enjoying the city of better a world is possible if we all having beaten Dundee, Leicester between providing an honest culture. Well- paid, secure work together to seek to achieve it. and Swansea to the title. A Hull portrayal of life for the millions of employment and a strong welfare For a Welsh audience, the film is native, McAllister was invited back to Steve, followed by McAllister, takes infectious energy. workers trapped in poverty whilst state had provided them with an sure to provide a further the city to be the creative director of his bus around Hull over the year. The joy of the “Beasts Bus” scenes ensuring that the film never crosses opportunity to not only buy their consideration: would the story the event’s opening ceremony. From The “Beats Bus” proves to be a great is in jarring comparison with the rest the line to become exploitative or own home but also to integrate be any different if Swansea had this starting point the film sets out to success. McAllister movingly of Steve’s life. Despite working hard patronising is perhaps its greatest culturally and socially with people become the UK City of Culture? explore the impact of the year on captures the impact that Steve’s for all of his adult life, Steve has strength. It is hard to conclude that across the economic spectrum. This With a quarter of the Welsh the city and in particular on one work has on the lives of the children nothing to show for his effort bar this isn’t the result of McAllister’s seems a different world from the population living in poverty it is individual, Steve Arnott. who use the bus, with two of the significant debts. In perhaps the own experiences of growing up in opportunities afforded to Steve and not hard to imagine that there are Steve works in a local warehouse, children especially benefiting from film’s most poignant scenes we see Hull. McAllister narrates the film the millions of people like him thousands of Steve Arnotts across working long hours for low wages. the opportunity presented to them, Steve struggling to maintain his himself and relives some his early across the UK. the city, dreaming of a better life Life is hard, yet Steve’s love of hip Harvey and Blessing. The children relationship with his daughter, years working in a factory in the city. Despite showing the struggles for themselves and their hop and Hull’s tenure as the UK’s are as much of the stars of the film his lack of money meaning that he Much like hip hop is Steve’s release, faced by Steve and the millions of communities but without the City of Culture provides him with an as Steve himself, with Blessing can only afford to travel the film-making provided McAllister with other people living in poverty, the means and opportunity to opportunity to fulfil a dream, the stealing the show at times, relatively short distance to see her an escape route from a boring job film does not leave viewers feeling provide it. creation of a “Beats Bus”. The bus providing comic relief through his every other weekend. Yet whilst the and an uncertain living. This kinship hopeless. It is impossible to watch A Northern Soul demonstrates takes hip hop on the road to allows him to build a rapport with the film and not leave with a burning that there’s talent and children living in parts of Hull that Steve and the children. sense on injustice, but the visible determination everywhere – would otherwise have no access to McAllister invokes his own changes in Harvey and Blessing we owe it to the Steve Arnotts, such opportunities. With his Compelling and powerful documentary. memories of growing up in Hull, would melt even the coldest of Harveys and Blessings of Wales employer providing him with a bus, which also highlights how life has hearts. Steve’s drive and belief show to unlock that potential.

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Kids on the breadline Local solutions to poverty Where next for Free Movement After Brexit Speaking up for the Valleys Community Union affordable rent? partnership Children across Wales are going More than 60 delegates from local We were pleased to inform the Our project officer, Helen without an adequate diet in the authorities, other public bodies Our seminar with Shelter Cymru Assembly’s External Affairs and Cunningham, was quoted in the The Bevan Foundation is delighted school holidays. We’ve found that the and the third sector explored held in April discussed the growing Additional Legislation Committee’s Western Mail on 29th March when to have agreed a partnership with root cause is families having a low local solutions to poverty at problem of unaffordable social rent. inquiry into changes to freedom of we responded to a report that Community, the modern union for income, made worse in the school our conference organised with Keynote speaker, Ian Wilson from movement after Brexit in May. Giving forecast that the South Wales Valleys the changing world. Community is holidays by: the Welsh Local Government Sheffield Hallam University, helped oral evidence to the Committee, are set to decline. Helen said: “We the first of three new partners, • loss of free school meals Association (WLGA) in May. delegates to understand what Victoria Winckler, Director of the need to change the view that just working with the Bevan Foundation • extra costs such as childcare ‘affordability’ means. He said that Bevan Foundation, argued that the growing cities like Cardiff and to increase equality, prosperity • reduced income as a result of several different factors could result fundamental question was ‘who Swansea is the answer. They are and justice. cuts to working hours or changes in rent becoming unaffordable. should decide which people can live, important but they are not going to Community has been helping in benefits. He pointed to different possible work, study or seek refuge in Wales’. meet the jobs gap that the Valleys working people in the Welsh steel Our report published in May solutions, including changes to rents She said that broad statistics that face. Treating them as a commuter industry for generations. But for the identified six essential steps that the and changes to the benefit system. showed that Wales was the same as belt is not going to cut it.” past 20 years, they’ve been reaching Welsh Government, local authorities He pointed to different possible parts of England did not undermine out to other workers across the and other public bodies should take solutions, including changes to rents the case for the Welsh Government Commenting on Council Tax private and voluntary sector. Today, to solve ‘holiday hunger’. and changes to the benefit system. determining ‘shortage occupations’ they represent thousands of workers Recommendations include Contributors from Shelter Cymru open to migrants. The Welsh As council tax bills hit people’s in charities, logistics, manufacturing, investment in a range of types of then outlined the human impact of Government may wish to deploy door mats, Steffan Evans, Policy finance and betting shops, to name holiday schemes to at least £4.75 The conference was organised high rents on families, including migrants with specific skills in its and Research Officer at the Bevan just a few of the areas where million a year, enabling approximately around the three key solutions homelessness and debt. economic and labour market plans, Foundation, commented on BBC members work. 16,000 children to benefit and to poverty. Some social landlords are trying and in any case the position may radio, TV and online. In a piece To find out more about the enacting legislation to require local On work as a solution to poverty, new approaches to rents, with change. The Committee’s report is on 8th April, he said: High costs partnership, please visit authorities to co-ordinate sufficient we learned from Cllr Matthew Merthyr Valleys Homes and Trivallis due shortly. of living are a significant factor in Community’s page on our website. holiday provision. Brown how Preston Council has outlining their differing models of pushing families into poverty and stimulated job creation and heard the ‘Living Rents’. The morning Time for a strategy to tackle higher council tax bills are just one . from Prof Ed Heery how the concluded with a panel discussion. poverty? part of this problem. With incomes recommendations of the Fair Work not growing at the same rate as Commission could improve pay living costs over recent years many and conditions. New perspectives on health The Bevan Foundation was quoted by households across Wales have felt On how an effective social security inequalities Assembly Members from all parties the pinch.” Welcome to Claire Thomas system can solve poverty, Linda in a debate on 5th June which called Davies from the Department for Health inequalities have long been for the Welsh Government to draw Discussing devolution Work and Pensions outlined how the a focus of public policy, yet gaps up a ‘tackling poverty strategy’. The A warm welcome to Dr Claire department’s culture is changing, in health between rich and poor Bevan Foundation has long urged Thomas who joined the Bevan then Dawn Barnes and Sian show few signs of closing, despite the Welsh Government to take Our Director, Victoria Winckler, Foundation team in June. Claire Humphreys explained how Flintshire significant public spending. Our action to reduce poverty through was a guest on BBC Sunday Politics will be leading our migration and Council was responding to the roll latest report, undertaken with more and better paid jobs, an Wales on 5th May discussing two integration, which is funded by out of Universal Credit in their area. Macmillan Cancer Support, found effective social security system, decades of devolution. Victoria the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Last, delegates looked at options that there is strong interest in taking and lower costs of essentials such said that there were lessons to be Claire previously worked in the for cutting costs for low-income a wider view of health inequalities as rent and food. learned for the future, including private sector. households, including supporting and in developing measures of What matters is addressing the focusing on improving people’s people in debt, managing rent inequality that are more meaningful fundamental causes of poverty at lives especially reducing poverty arrears and reducing food poverty. to people and easier to track. sufficient scale. and inequality.

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