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I am pleased to launch this consultation today seeking the views of those who work in and use childcare and playwork services on the proposal to professionally register the sector.


Childcare and playwork have an important role in giving children the best start in life, closing the attainment gap, and tackling poverty. The childcare and playwork workforce in Wales provide a vital service both in supporting the development of our children and in enabling parents to work and train.


The Welsh Government’s Childcare, Play and Early Years Workforce Plan, sets out our vision for the development of a highly skilled and qualified workforce to enable high quality provision so that children from all backgrounds may have the best start in life. It also sets out the long\-term ambition to explore the introduction of professional registration for the childcare and playwork workforce.  


The Welsh Government has taken forward exploration of this ambition, working with a professional registration working group.\[1] This group, comprised of stakeholders from across the sector, have developed draft principles of a workforce register which form the basis of the consultation.    


The consultation is an opportunity for those managing, working, and using childcare and playwork settings across Wales to tell us what they think about the principle of professional registration and whether they feel a workforce register would be beneficial for the childcare and playwork sector now or in the future.


The consultation closes on 7 March 2024\. I am inviting all those with in an interest in this area to respond and provide their views.


All responses will be analysed and a summary published in Spring 2024\. If it is determined that a professional workforce register is to be developed, there will be an opportunity for the childcare and playwork sector to shape the specifics of that register via a further consultation.


\[1] Membership of the group includes Cwlwm, Education Workforce Council, Local Authorities, Play Wales, Scottish Social Services Council, Social Care Wales, Unison and Voice Unions and WLGA.  







Translation:


 
Rwy'n falch o lansio'r ymgynghoriad hwn heddiw yn gofyn am farn y rhai sy'n gweithio yn y sector gwasanaethau gofal plant a gwaith chwarae, neu'n eu defnyddio, ar y cynnig i gofrestru'r sector yn broffesiynol.


Mae gan ofal plant a gwaith chwarae ran bwysig i'w chwarae mewn rhoi dechrau da mewn bywyd i blant, cau'r bwlch o ran cyrhaeddiad a mynd i'r afael â thlodi. Mae'r gweithlu gofal plant a gwaith chwarae yng Nghymru yn darparu gwasanaeth hanfodol drwy gefnogi datblygiad ein plant a'i gwneud yn bosibl i rieni weithio a hyfforddi.


Mae Cynllun Gweithlu Gofal Plant, Chwarae a'r Blynyddoedd Cynnar Llywodraeth Cymru yn nodi ein gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygu gweithlu medrus a chymwys iawn i'w gwneud yn bosibl i gynnig darpariaeth o'r radd flaenaf fel bo plant o bob cefndir yn cael y dechrau gorau mewn bywyd. Uchelgais hirdymor y cynllun yw archwilio cyflwyno cofrestru proffesiynol ar gyfer y gweithlu gofal plant a gwaith chwarae.  


Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi bwrw ymlaen ag ymchwilio i'r uchelgais hwn, gan weithio gyda gweithgor cofrestru proffesiynol.\[1] Mae'r grŵp hwn, sy'n cynnwys rhanddeiliaid o bob rhan o'r sector, wedi datblygu egwyddorion drafft ar gyfer cofrestr o'r gweithlu a rhain sy'n sail i'r ymgynghoriad.    


Mae'r ymgynghoriad yn gyfle i'r rhai sy'n rheoli lleoliadau gofal plant a gwaith chwarae, yn gweithio ynddynt neu'n eu defnyddio, ledled Cymru, ddweud eu barn wrthym ynghylch yr egwyddor o gofrestru proffesiynol ac a ydynt yn teimlo y byddai cofrestr o'r gweithlu o fudd i'r sector gofal plant a gwaith chwarae nawr neu yn y dyfodol.


Daw'r ymgynghoriad i ben ar 7 Mawrth 2024\. Rwy'n gwahodd pawb sydd â diddordeb yn y maes hwn i ymateb a rhoi eu barn.


Bydd yr holl ymatebion yn cael eu dadansoddi a bydd crynodeb ohonynt yn cael ei gyhoeddi yng Ngwanwyn 2024\. Os penderfynir y dylid datblygu cofrestr broffesiynol o'r gweithlu, bydd cyfle i'r sector gofal plant a gwaith chwarae lunio manylion y gofrestr honno drwy ymgynghoriad pellach.


\[1] Mae aelodau'r grŵp yn cynnwys Cwlwm, Cyngor y Gweithlu Addysg, Awdurdodau Lleol, Chwarae Cymru, Cyngor Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol yr Alban, Gofal Cymdeithasol Cymru, undebau Unsain a Llais a CLlLC.