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Today I would like to contribute to Safer Internet Day 2015 by up\-dating Members on action the Welsh Government is taking so that education services play a full and active part in keeping our children safe from the risks of abuse and neglect – including when that risk is online.


Last month, I was pleased to publish new guidance to help keep children and young people safe in education. Keeping learners safe supplements multi\-agency safeguarding guidance \- Safeguarding children: Working together under the Children Act 2004 \- and is designed to support all those in education settings in delivering their safeguarding and child protection responsibilities.


Keeping learners safe was written following a comprehensive consultation exercise with stakeholders. I would like to set on record my thanks to those who care greatly about the safeguarding and protection agenda for their constructive support and engagement in this process.


This is a first step only in strengthening safeguarding arrangements in education. In the coming weeks, we will engage further with stakeholders to seek their views on help required to support the effective and consistent implementation of the guidance, and of robust safeguarding practice. This will enable us to identify the gaps in current understanding and where extra support might be required.


We also intend to help establish an all Wales safeguarding in education group. The group will bring together operational education safeguarding leads from local authorities and other stakeholders to drive forward a work programme to support consistency of practice, procedures and policies throughout Wales.


The Welsh Government has always been very clear that safeguarding is everyone’s business. Effective child protection arrangements can only happen when safeguarding agencies work consistently and collaboratively to protect those most at risk from harm. Social services will always be pivotal to the effectiveness of those arrangements. However, all partners – including education services \- must contribute fully to ensure the effective safeguarding. 


The Social Services and Well\-being (Wales) Act 2014 provides the framework to ensure that agencies with safeguarding duties are supported by more robust leadership and a stronger, more effective framework for multi\-agency co\-operation. The consultation on the regulations which underpin the Act has just closed. I hope that education stakeholders in Wales have played a full part in that to ensure that the needs of education settings are met fully in the new arrangements.


It is critical that the whole of the education service contributes its own experience of safeguarding both at a policy and practice level to ensure that the systems we have are effective to achieve our common goal of safeguarding all children and young people within education.


Keeping learners safe includes guidance on a range of areas where we already know that some areas of safeguarding and child protection benefit from additional advice and support, and where specific focus is required.


One of these areas is support for learners in accessing and using the internet safely and responsibly. We have awarded a contract to a leading e\-Safety provider to partner with us in delivering advice, tools and resources through our Hwb platform, targeting schools and teachers as well as the young people themselves.


The Welsh Government’s approach to safeguarding children and young people online remains that we first teach them to use the internet safely under supervision, and then help them to develop the skills and understanding they need to manage their own risk as they use the internet independently.


Safer Internet Day 2015 is an opportunity for us all to reflect on our contributions to keeping learners safe and how we might make the internet a better – and safer \- place for all users in the future.


Keeping learners safe is clear about how education services might identify and respond to concerns on child sexual exploitation, linking with statutory guidance and all Wales child protection procedures to ensure a consistent and clearly understood approach.


We need though to consider how we might provide greater support to teachers and others in education in what is an extremely difficult area of safeguarding. We are presently working with Barnardo’s Cymru to develop an education resource pack to assist everyone in education in talking openly to children and young people about the dangers of sexual exploitation, and risky behaviours that might put them in harm’s way.  


Barnardo’s Cymru was responsible for the development of the Seraf (sexual exploitation and referral assessment framework) which is central to statutory guidance, and we must ensure that this clear focus of approach is maintained and built upon. The education resource pack will be produced as a digital suite of resources that will be promoted and accessed through the Learning Wales and the Hwb websites.  


Last year, the former Minister for Local Government and I wrote to all head teachers in Wales to highlight the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and to reflect the important role that education services play to help safeguard girls who might be at risk.  


We are continuing to work to end these practices by collaborating with agencies and communities to promote awareness and prevention of FGM through training of key organisations and individuals. The Welsh Government held a community based conference \- Making Our Voices Heard \- to mark International Zero Tolerance of FGM on 6 February.


We have to continue to work hard to improve the knowledge and understanding of this heinous crime and to ensure that we support the voice of people within affected communities who speak out.


Childhood neglect is extremely damaging and is also the most common reason for children entering the child protection system in Wales. In March 2014 45% of children on child protection registers were victims of neglect.


Many people’s understanding of neglect is of poor hygiene, lack of appropriate clothing or insufficient food. Most professionals however understand that neglect is complex, is both emotional and physical and often co\-exists alongside other forms of abuse.


The Welsh Government has commissioned the NSPCC and Action for Children to help develop the national Welsh neglect project.  


As part of this project, the NSPCC is seeking to learn more about the capacity of education services to help tackle child neglect at an early stage. Providing early support to children and families, can help stop low level neglect becoming chronic and entrenched \- children perform better at school, by providing them with what they need to continue to develop and achieve.


Following a survey of schools, the NSPCC is undertaking focussed discussions with education professionals to explore their understanding of neglect, their role in tackling it, barriers to earlier and more effective responses and potential solutions to enable education services to more effectively respond to neglect at an early stage.


The Welsh Government is taking a firm stand against gender\-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence with the introduction of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Bill.  The Bill recently completed Stage 2 of the scrutiny process and will establish a legal framework to improve public sector response to gender\-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence.


The Bill is a vital part of a comprehensive package of measures which takes important steps towards ending gender based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence. This includes the introduction of the National Training Framework.


We know there is a strong link between domestic abuse and the abuse and neglect of children. One in three child protection cases shows a history of domestic violence to the mother. Young people in violent households are more likely to be injured and abused, either directly or while trying to protect their parent. One in five cases dealt with by the NSPCC involves domestic abuse.  This is one of the reasons why it is so important to strengthen our response to safeguarding and protection arrangements through Keeping learners safe.


A lot has been done. There remains a lot to do and there is never room for complacency. Keeping learners safe will place considerable focus on this work and will clarify the role of education services in contributing to a multi\-agency response to areas of safeguarding. But it is work in progress only. We will continue to find ways to ensure our arrangements continue to be the very best.


Protection comes in many forms, including self\-protection. One of the best ways to safeguard our young people is through awareness, education and giving young people the confidence to respect themselves and to stand up for what they know is right.


Constructive enablement is crucial. Our rights based agenda supports that approach, but the Welsh Government, statutory agencies and third sector organisations must work hard to support them every step of the way


I would encourage everyone whose work and lives brings them into contact with education services in Wales to ensure that our children and young people remain safe while they learn. Keeping learners safe and Safer Internet Day 2015 will help support those in education services to make sure that is the case.


We need to maintain a very strong focus on safeguarding and I invite all Assembly Members to join me in helping to ensure that becomes a reality.   


 







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Heddiw, hoffwn gyfrannu at Ddiwrnod Defnyddio’r Rhyngrwyd yn Fwy Diogel 2015 drwy roi’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i Aelodau am y camau mae Llywodraeth Cymru’n eu cymryd i sicrhau bod gwasanaethau addysg yn cymryd rhan lawn a gweithredol yn y gwaith o gadw ein plant yn ddiogel rhag peryglon cam\-drin ac esgeuluso \- yn cynnwys y risg i hynny ddigwydd ar\-lein.

Fis diwethaf, roeddwn yn falch o gael cyhoeddi canllawiau newydd i helpu i gadw plant a phobl ifanc yn ddiogel ym myd addysg. Mae Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel yn ategu’r canllawiau diogelu aml\-asiantaeth \- Diogelu plant: Gweithio gyda’n Gilydd dan Ddeddf Plant 2004 \- ac wedi’u cynllunio i gefnogi pawb sy’n gweithio mewn lleoliadau addysg i gyflawni eu cyfrifoldebau o ran diogelu ac amddiffyn plant.

Ysgrifennwyd Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel yn dilyn ymarfer ymgynghori cynhwysfawr gyda rhanddeiliaid. Hoffwn gofnodi fy niolch i’r rhai sy’n poeni’n ddirfawr am yr agenda diogelu ac amddiffyn am eu cymorth a’u cyfraniad adeiladol i’r broses hon.

Cam cyntaf yn unig yw hun tuag at gryfhau trefniadau diogelu ym myd addysg. Dros yr wythnosau nesaf, byddwn yn ymgysylltu eto â rhanddeiliaid er mwyn cael eu safbwyntiau ar y cymorth sydd ei angen er mwyn sicrhau bod y canllawiau ac arferion diogelu cadarn yn cael eu rhoi ar waith mewn ffordd effeithiol a chyson. Bydd hyn yn ein galluogi i nodi’r bylchau sy’n bodoli nawr yn nealltwriaeth pobl ac unrhyw feysydd sydd angen cymorth penodol o bosibl.

Rydym hefyd yn bwriadu helpu i sefydlu grŵp diogelu mewn addysg Cymru gyfan. Bydd y grŵp yn dwyn ynghyd arweinwyr gweithredol diogelu mewn addysg o awdurdodau lleol a rhanddeiliaid eraill er mwyn datblygu rhaglen waith i gefnogi arferion, gweithdrefnau a pholisïau cyson ledled Cymru.  

Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi bod yn bendant ers y cychwyn bod diogelu yn fater i bawb. Er mwyn sicrhau trefniadau amddiffyn plant effeithiol mae’n rhaid i asiantaethau diogelu weithio’n gyson a chyda’i gilydd i amddiffyn y rhai sydd yn y perygl mwyaf o gael niwed. Bydd gwasanaethau cymdeithasol bob amser yn allweddol i effeithiolrwydd y trefniadau hynny. Fodd bynnag, mae’n rhaid i’r holl bartneriaid \- yn cynnwys gwasanaethau addysg \- gyfrannu’n llawn i sicrhau trefniadau diogelu effeithiol.

Mae Deddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru) 2014 yn darparu’r fframwaith i sicrhau bod asiantaethau sydd â dyletswyddau diogelu yn cael eu cefnogi gan arweinyddiaeth gadarnach a fframwaith cryfach, mwy effeithiol ar gyfer cydweithredu aml\-asiantaeth. Mae’r ymgynghoriad ar y rheoliadau sy’n sail i’r Ddeddf newydd ddod i ben. Rwy’n gobeithio bod rhanddeiliaid addysg yng Nghymru wedi cyfrannu’n llawn ato er mwyn sicrhau bod anghenion lleoliadau addysg yn cael eu diwallu’n llawn yn y trefniadau newydd.

Mae’n hanfodol bod y gwasanaeth addysg cyfan yn cyflwyno ei brofiad ei hun o ddiogelu ar lefel polisi ac ymarfer er mwyn sicrhau bod y systemau sydd gennym yn effeithiol i gyflawni ein nod cyffredin o ddiogelu pob plentyn a pherson ifanc ym myd addysg.

Mae Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel yn cynnwys canllawiau ar amrywiaeth o feysydd lle gwyddom fod rhai meysydd diogelu ac amddiffyn plant yn elwa ar gyngor a chymorth ychwanegol, a lle mae angen ffocws penodol.

Un o’r meysydd hyn yw cymorth i ddysgwyr fel y gallant gyrchu a defnyddio’r rhyngrwyd yn ddiogel a chyfrifol. Rydym wedi dyfarnu contract i ddarparwr e\-Ddiogelwch blaenllaw i fod yn bartner i ni wrth ddarparu cyngor, offer ac adnoddau drwy ein platfform Hwb, gan dargedu ysgolion ac athrawon yn ogystal â’r bobl ifanc eu hunain.

Mae agwedd Llywodraeth Cymru at ddiogelu plant a phobl ifanc yn parhau i fod fel ag yr oedd – ein bod yn eu haddysgu gyntaf i ddefnyddio’r rhyngrwyd yn ddiogel dan oruchwyliaeth, ac yna’n eu helpu i feithrin y sgiliau a’r ddealltwriaeth angenrheidiol i reoli eu risg eu hunain wrth iddynt ddefnyddio’r rhyngrwyd yn annibynnol.

Mae Diwrnod Defnyddio’r Rhyngrwyd yn Fwy Diogel 2015 yn gyfle i ni gyd feddwl am ein cyfraniadau i gadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel a sut y gallwn ni wneud y rhyngrwyd yn lle gwell – a mwy diogel – i bawb sy’n ei defnyddio yn y dyfodol.

Mae Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel yn glir am sut y dylai gwasanaethau addysg nodi ac ymateb i bryderon am gam\-fanteisio’n rhywiol ar blant, gan gysylltu â chanllawiau statudol a gweithdrefnau amddiffyn plant Cymru gyfan i sicrhau dull cyson sy’n cael ei ddeall yn glir.

Ond mae angen i ni ystyried sut y gallwn ni ddarparu mwy o gymorth i athrawon ac eraill ym myd addysg mewn maes diogelu anodd iawn. Rydym wrthi ar hyn o bryd yn gweithio gyda Barnardo’s Cymru i ddatblygu pecyn adnoddau addysg i helpu pawb ym myd addysg i siarad yn agored gyda phlant a phobl ifanc am beryglon cam\-fanteisio’n rhywiol, a mathau o ymddygiad peryglus a allai eu niweidio.  

Barnardo’s Cymru oedd yn gyfrifol am ddatblygu Seraf (fframwaith asesu’r risg o gam\-fanteisio’n rhywiol) sy’n ganolog i’r canllawiau statudol, ac mae’n rhaid i ni sicrhau bod y ffocws clir hwn yn cael ei gynnal a’i ddatblygu. Bydd y pecyn adnoddau addysg yn cael ei gynhyrchu fel cyfres ddigidol o adnoddau a fydd yn cael ei hyrwyddo ac ar gael ar wefannau Dysgu Cymru a Hwb.  

Y llynedd, ysgrifennodd y cyn Weinidog Llywodraeth Leol a minnau at holl benaethiaid ysgolion Cymru i dynnu sylw at yr arfer o Anffurfio Organau Cenhedlu Benywod (FGM) ac i bwysleisio’r rôl bwysig sydd gan wasanaethau addysg i helpu i ddiogelu merched a allai fod mewn perygl.  

Rydym yn parhau i weithio i roi diwedd ar yr arferion hyn drwy gydweithio ag asiantaethau a chymunedau i hyrwyddo ymwybyddiaeth ac atal FGM drwy hyfforddi sefydliadau ac unigolion allweddol. Cynhaliodd Llywodraeth Cymru gynhadledd gymunedol – Making Our Voices Heard – i ddynodi Dim Goddefgarwch Rhyngwladol i FGM ar 6 Chwefror.

Mae’n rhaid i ni barhau i weithio’n galed i wella gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth o’r drosedd erchyll hon ac i sicrhau ein bod ni’n cefnogi llais pobl o fewn y cymunedau yr effeithir arnynt sy’n mentro codi eu llais.

Mae esgeuluso plant yn niweidiol tu hwnt a dyma’r rheswm mwyaf cyffredin pam mae plant yn ymuno â’r system amddiffyn plant yng Nghymru. Ym mis Mawrth 2014, roedd 42% o’r plant a roddwyd ar gofrestri amddiffyn plant yn blant oedd wedi’u hesgeuluso.

Hylendid gwael, diffyg dillad priodol neu ddim digon o fwyd yw’r hyn a ddaw i feddyliau llawer o bobl wrth feddwl am esgeulustod. Ond mae gweithwyr proffesiynol yn deall bod esgeulustod yn gymhleth, ar lefel emosiynol a chorfforol ac mae’n aml yn bodoli ochr yn ochr â mathau eraill o gam\-drin.

Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi comisiynu’r NSPCC a Gweithredu dros Blant i helpu i ddatblygu prosiect esgeulustod cenedlaethol yng Nghymru.  

Fel rhan o’r prosiect hwn, mae’r NSPCC yn awyddus i ddysgu mwy am allu gwasanaethau addysg i helpu i fynd i’r afael ag esgeuluso plant yn gynnar. Gall darparu cymorth yn gynnar i blant a theuluoedd helpu i atal esgeulustod lefel isel rhag datblygu’n broblem ddifrifol sy’n ymwreiddio \- bydd plant yn cyflawni’n well yn yr ysgol, os ydynt yn cael yr hyn eu hangen arnynt i ddatblygu a chyflawni.

Yn dilyn arolwg o ysgolion, mae’r NSPCC yn cynnal trafodaethau â ffocws gyda gweithwyr addysg proffesiynol i archwilio eu dealltwriaeth o esgeulustod, eu rôl yn mynd i’r afael â’r broblem, yr hyn sy’n rhwystro ymatebion cynharach a mwy effeithiol ac atebion posibl fel y gall gwasanaethau addysg ymateb yn fwy effeithiol i esgeulustod yn gynnar.

Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn sefyll yn gadarn yn erbyn trais ar sail rhywedd, cam\-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol wrth gyflwyno’r Bil Trais yn erbyn Menywod, Cam\-drin Domestig a Thrais Rhywiol (Cymru). Yn ddiweddar, aeth y Bil drwy Gam 2 y broses graffu a bydd yn sefydlu fframwaith cyfreithiol i wella ymateb y sector cyhoeddus i drais ar sail rhywedd, cam\-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol.

Mae’r Bil yn rhan hanfodol o becyn cynhwysfawr o fesurau sy’n cymryd camau pwysig tuag at ddileu trais ar sail rhywedd, cam\-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol. Mae hyn yn cynnwys cyflwyno’r Fframwaith Hyfforddiant Cenedlaethol.

Gwyddom fod cysylltiad cryf rhwng cam\-drin domestig a cham\-drin ac esgeuluso plant. Mae un o bob tri achos o amddiffyn plant yn dangos hanes o drais domestig yn erbyn y fam. Mae pobl ifanc mewn cartrefi treisgar yn fwy tebygol o gael eu hanafu a’u cam\-drin, naill ai’n uniongyrchol neu wrth geisio amddiffyn eu rhiant. Mae un o bob pum achos y mae’r NSPCC yn ymdrin â nhw yn ymwneud â cham\-drin domestig. Dyma un o’r rhesymau pam ei bod hi’n bwysig i ni gryfhau ein hymateb i drefniadau diogelu ac amddiffyn drwy Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel.

Mae llawer o waith wedi’i wneud. Ond mae llawer o waith ar ôl ac ni allwn fyth orffwys ar ein rhwyfau. Bydd Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel yn canolbwyntio llawer ar y gwaith hwn ac yn egluro rôl y gwasanaethau addysg o safbwynt eu cyfraniad at ymateb aml\-asiantaeth i feysydd diogelu. Ond mae’r gwaith yn dal i fynd rhagddo. Byddwn yn parhau i ddod o hyd i ffyrdd o sicrhau bod ein trefniadau ni yn parhau i fod yn rhai o’r radd flaenaf.

Mae yna sawl math o amddiffyn, yn cynnwys hunanamddiffyn. Un o’r ffyrdd gorau o ddiogelu pobl ifanc yw drwy ymwybyddiaeth, addysg a rhoi’r hyder i bobl ifanc barchu eu hunain ac i sefyll dros yr hyn sy’n iawn.

Mae galluogi adeiladol yn hanfodol. Mae ein hagenda seiliedig ar hawliau yn cefnogi’r dull hwnnw, ond mae’n rhaid i Lywodraeth Cymru, asiantaethau statudol a sefydliadau’r trydydd sector weithio’n galed i’w cefnogi bob cam o’r ffordd.

Byddwn yn annog pawb sy’n dod i gysylltiad â’r gwasanaethau addysg yng Nghymru drwy eu gwaith a’u bywyd i sicrhau bod ein plant a’n pobl ifanc yn cadw’n ddiogel wrth iddynt ddysgu. Bydd Cadw dysgwyr yn ddiogel a Diwrnod Defnyddio’r Rhyngrwyd yn Fwy Diogel 2015 yn helpu i gefnogi’r gwasanaethau addysg hynny i sicrhau bod hyn yn digwydd.

Mae angen i ni barhau i roi ffocws cryf iawn ar ddiogelu ac rwy’n gwahodd pob Aelod Cynulliad i ymuno â mi i helpu i sicrhau bod hyn yn digwydd.