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On 20 September I made an oral statement about actions to address the findings of the joint investigation by the Care and Social Standards Inspectorate, Wales (CSSIW) and Estyn.  The investigation report, the “Joint investigation into the handling and management arrangements of allegations of professional abuse and arrangements for safeguarding and protecting children in education services in Pembrokeshire” was published on 11 September 2011, on the same day as Estyn’s inspection report on Pembrokeshire’s education services. 


Both reports highlighted serious and systemic failures in Pembrokeshire County Council’s approach to safeguarding.  It is clear that these failures are longstanding and that weaknesses in leadership, accountability and democratic process in the authority have contributed to these failures.  This was confirmed by the Ministerial Advisory Board appointed by Welsh Ministers to provide robust support and challenge to the authority in drafting its improvement plan.


In my oral statement I said that the Council would continue to need external support and challenge to tackle the problems identified I stated that could best be provided through a Ministerial board with an independent chair.


I can announce today the membership of this Board.


It will be made up of members with senior level experience and expertise in the core areas of weakness identified by the two reports.  I am pleased to announce that the Board will be independently chaired by His Honour, Graham Jones. Graham Jones, now retired from the judiciary, brings with him experience of having chaired a similar board set up to support the City and County of Swansea in addressing weaknesses in their Social Services.


Phil Robson, a retired Director of Social Services and also of Education in Powys, and former member of Pembrokeshire’s Ministerial Advisory Board, has agreed to provide continuity by joining the new Board.  We also welcome the other appointees who are:


* Helen Mary Jones, former Assembly Member for Llanelli. She has been a shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning and a member of the Equal Opportunities Committee;
* Viv Thomas, former Corporate Director for Education, Leisure and Lifelong Learning at Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and chair of the Education Structures Task and Finish Group for the Frontline Services Review; and
* Professor Karen Graham, Professor of Early Years Studies at Glyndwr University, with an extensive and varied career in teaching and early years education.


The Board will provide support and challenge to Pembrokeshire County Council as it further develops and implements its improvement plan, will assess the sustainability of change and the longer term prospects for improvement and advise Welsh Ministers on progress and on the need for any further actions.


The direction the work of the Board takes, and any further Ministerial decisions, will be governed by the outcome of other ongoing work, in particular the joint work being undertaken by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales, Estyn, the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.  The inspectorates are looking at the quality of joint work to safeguard and protect children and young people.  We will also take account of the views of the Wales Audit Office which is conducting a special inspection of the authority and its report is expected in February next year.


The Leader has confirmed that the Council will welcome the support we have offered through appointment of the Board.


 







Translation:


 
Ar 20 Medi fe wnes i ddatganiad llafar ar y camau gweithredu ar gyfer mynd i'r afael â chanfyddiadau'r ymchwiliad ar y cyd gan Arolygiaeth Gofal a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol Cymru (AGGCC) ac Estyn.  Cyhoeddwyd yr adroddiad archwilio, "Ymchwiliad ar y cyd i’r ffordd y rheolir ac yr ymdrinnir â honiadau o gam\-drin proffesiynol a’r trefniadau ar gyfer diogelu ac amddiffyn plant mewn gwasanaethau addysg yng Nghyngor Sir Penfro" ar 11 Medi 2011, a chyhoeddwyd adroddiad arolygu Estyn ar wasanaethau addysg Sir Benfro ar yr un diwrnod.  

 Yr oedd y ddau adroddiad yn tynnu sylw at fethiannau difrifol a systemig yn null gweithredu Cyngor Sir Penfro mewn perthynas â diogelu.  Mae'n gwbl glir fod y methiannau hyn yn rhai hirdymor a bod y gwendidau o ran arweiniad, atebolrwydd a phrosesau democrataidd o fewn yr awdurdod wedi cyfrannu at y methiannau hyn.  Cadarnhawyd hyn gan y Bwrdd Cynghori Gweinidogol a benodwyd gan Weinidogion Cymru i roi cefnogaeth a her gadarn i’r awdurdod wrth iddo fynd ati i ddrafftio’i gynllun gwella. 

 Yn fy natganiad llafar dywedais y byddai'n rhaid parhau i roi cefnogaeth a her allanol i’r cyngor i’w gynorthwyo i fynd i'r afael â'r problemau a nodwyd. Dywedais hefyd mai'r ffordd orau o wneud hynny fyddai drwy gael Bwrdd Gweinidogol â chadeirydd annibynnol. 

 Gallaf gyhoeddi heddiw aelodau'r Bwrdd hwn.

 Bydd yr aelodau’n cynnwys unigolion sydd â phrofiad ac arbenigedd ar lefel uwch yn y meysydd craidd hynny lle nodwyd gwendidau yn y ddau adroddiad. Rwy'n falch o fedru cyhoeddi mai Cadeirydd annibynnol y Bwrdd fydd Ei Anrhydedd, Graham Jones. Mae gan Graham Jones, sydd bellach wedi ymddeol o'r farnwriaeth, brofiad helaeth gan ei fod wedi cadeirio bwrdd tebyg a sefydlwyd i gefnogi Cyngor Dinas a Sir Abertawe wrth iddo fynd i'r afael â gwendidau yn ei Wasanaethau Cymdeithasol.

 Mae Phil Robson, cyn Gyfarwyddwr Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a chyn Gyfarwyddwr Addysg ym Mhowys, sydd wedi ymddeol erbyn hyn, a chyn aelod o Fwrdd Cynghori Gweinidogol Sir Benfro, wedi cytuno i sicrhau parhad drwy ymuno â'r Bwrdd newydd.  Rydym hefyd yn croesawu'r aelodau eraill, sef:

 * Helen Mary Jones, cyn Aelod Cynulliad Llanelli. Bu’n Weinidog Addysg a Dysgu Gydol Oes dros yr Wrthblaid, a hefyd  yn aelod o'r Pwyllgor Cyfle Cyfartal.
* Viv Thomas, cyn Gyfarwyddwr Corfforaethol Addysg, Hamdden a Dysgu Gydol Oes, Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Castell\-nedd Port Talbot a chadeirydd y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen ar Strwythurau Addysg ar gyfer yr Adolygiad o Wasanaethau Rheng Flaen
* Yr Athro Karen Graham, Athro Astudiaethau'r Blynyddoedd Cynnar ym Mhrifysgol Glyndŵr, sydd wedi cael gyrfa helaeth ac amrywiol iawn ym maes addysgu ac addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar.

 Bydd y Bwrdd yn rhoi cefnogaeth a her i Gyngor Sir Penfro wrth iddo fynd ati i ddatblygu ei gynllun gwella ymhellach a’i roi ar waith. Bydd y Bwrdd hefyd yn asesu pa mor gynaliadwy yw’r newidiadau a beth yw’r disgwyliadau hirdymor ar gyfer gwella.  Byddant yn rhoi gwybod i Weinidogion Cymru am hynt y gwaith ac am yr  angen i gymryd unrhyw gamau pellach.  

 Caiff cyfeiriad gwaith y Bwrdd ac unrhyw benderfyniadau pellach gan Weinidogion eu pennu yn sgil canlyniadau unrhyw waith arall sydd ar y gweill, ac yn enwedig y gwaith sy’n cael ei wneud ar y cyd rhwng Arolygiaeth Gofal a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol Cymru, Estyn, Arolygiaeth Gofal Iechyd Cymru ac Arolygiaeth Cwnstabliaeth Ei Mawrhydi.  Mae’r arolygiaethau yn edrych ar ansawdd y gwaith sy’n cael ei wneud ar y cyd er mwyn diogelu ac amddiffyn plant a phobl ifanc. Byddwn hefyd yn ystyried safbwyntiau Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru sy’n cynnal arolygiad arbennig o’r awdurdod. Disgwylir ei hadroddiad ym mis Chwefror y flwyddyn nesaf.

 Mae’r Arweinydd wedi cadarnhau y bydd y Cyngor yn croesawu’r cymorth yr ydym wedi ei gynnig drwy benodi’r Bwrdd.