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NSPCC Cymru/Wales Policy Team

NSPCC Public Policy in Cymru/Wales

The NSPCC Cymru/Wales Policy Team is based in Cardiff with an all Wales remit.

The work of our team includes:

• leading the NSPCC's contact and influencing activity with the National Assembly, Welsh Assembly Government, the civil service, local government and other partner organisations
  
  
• responding to consultations and calls for evidence from a variety of sources, including the Welsh Assembly Government
  
  
• actively promoting Welsh policy input into local and national activities and campaigns.

Research

A dedicated research capacity enables us to carry out relevant, locally-based research on policy issues affecting children and young people in Wales to complement and assist our influencing activities.

Policy

The team takes a lead role in public policy development with the National Assembly and the Welsh Assembly Government, using research and the experience of NSPCC services to ensure our policies and submissions are evidenced based.

Public affairs

The team promotes the external policies of the NSPCC and seeks to influence attitudes, legislation, guidance and policy development with elected representatives and the Welsh Assembly Government in ways that help end cruelty to children.

Coalitions and representation

The NSPCC Cymru/Wales Policy Team represents the organisation on a number of coalitions and groups relating to children and young people in Wales, including:

• End Child Poverty Network Wales
• Children Are Unbeatable/S'Dim Curo Plant Cymru
• Forrwm Magu Plant (The Welsh Assembly Government's Parenting Forum)
• Welsh Assembly Government Safeguarding Group
• Welsh Children's Organisations Policy Officers Group
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Monitoring Group
• Welsh Assembly Government Participation Consortium.

Recent work

• Provided evidence from across Wales to the Welsh Audit Office and Health Inspectorate Wales joint review into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Wales.
  
  
• Provided written and oral evidence to the National Assembly’s Communities and Culture Committee’s inquiry into domestic abuse in Wales.  To read the submissions see NSPCC Cymru/Wales responses to consultations and calls for evidence.
  
  
• Led the interface with the Welsh Assembly Government's Safeguarding Group and their LSCB Review Group.
  
  
• Represented NSPCC Cymru/Wales on the Welsh Assembly Government’s task and finish group on children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour. The group was established following an NSPCC Cymru/Wales campaign.
  
  
• Provided oral evidence, on behalf of Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance/S’Dim Curo Plant, to the National Assembly’s Children and Young People’s Committee as part of their inquiry into the Welsh Assembly Government’s Parenting Action Plan.

Please contact us if you require further information about the NSPCC Cymru/Wales Policy Team

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