English: The Welsh Conservatives welcome the Government's draft children's right scheme 2021, and we will be supporting today's motion before us. However, there is always a caveat to these things, isn't there? While we welcome the children's rights scheme, we have real concerns that the Welsh Government's actions do not improve the rights of Welsh children. It has been 10 years since this Parliament introduced the children's rights Measure, which 'places a duty on Welsh Government Ministers to have due regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child', yet Welsh Ministers continue to disregard that duty whenever it suits them. Each year, the Welsh Government publish a budget but totally fail in their duty to conduct a thorough children's rights impact assessment. CRIAs are vital tools in ensuring all Government policies adhere to the UNCRC. By failing to conduct rights impact assessments on public spending, we are left with little to no clarity on how budgetary decisions are impacting Welsh children. This has led to condemnation by both the children's commissioner and the Senedd's children's committee. In the report of the United Kingdom's children's commissioners to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, it was noted that, and I quote: 'The Welsh government has cut budget lines where a detailed CRIA would have identified the child rights impact, for example, uniform grants and funding for disadvantaged learners. While these were later overturned, it is concerning that these situations occur.' Who knows what would have happened if the children's commissioner had not been there to stand up for Welsh children. These decisions would not have been reversed, that's for certain. It's not just the failure to conduct CRIAs that is concerning; many of us feel that Welsh Government CRIAs aren't worth the paper they're written on. Far too often, integrated impact assessments are passed off as children's rights impact assessments - an approach that is wholly inadequate and does not reflect the true impact of decisions upon the rights of Welsh children.
Welsh: Mae Ceidwadwyr Cymru yn croesawu cynllun hawliau plant drafft y Llywodraeth 2021, a byddwn ni'n cefnogi'r cynnig ger ein bron heddiw. Fodd bynnag, mae cafeat i'r pethau hyn bob amser, onid oes? Er ein bod ni'n croesawu'r cynllun hawliau plant, mae gennym ni bryderon gwirioneddol nad yw gweithredoedd Llywodraeth Cymru yn gwella hawliau plant Cymru. Mae wedi bod yn 10 mlynedd ers i'r Senedd hon gyflwyno'r Mesur hawliau plant, sy'n 'gosod dyletswydd ar Weinidogion Llywodraeth Cymru i roi sylw dyledus i Gonfensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau'r Plentyn', eto, mae Gweinidogion Cymru yn parhau i ddiystyru'r ddyletswydd honno pryd bynnag y mae'n gyfleus iddyn nhw. Bob blwyddyn, mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cyhoeddi cyllideb ond yn methu'n llwyr yn eu dyletswydd i gynnal asesiad trylwyr o'r effaith ar hawliau plant. Mae asesiadau o effaith ar hawliau plant yn adnoddau hanfodol i sicrhau bod holl bolisïau'r Llywodraeth yn cadw at gonfensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau'r Plentyn. Drwy fethu â chynnal asesiadau o'r effaith ar hawliau ar wariant cyhoeddus, nid oes gennym ni fawr ddim eglurder ynghylch sut mae penderfyniadau cyllidebol yn effeithio ar blant Cymru. Mae hyn wedi arwain at gondemniad gan y comisiynydd plant a phwyllgor plant y Senedd. Nododd adroddiad comisiynwyr plant y Deyrnas Unedig i Bwyllgor y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau'r Plentyn, ac rwy'n dyfynnu: 'Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi torri llinellau cyllideb lle y byddai asesiad o effaith ar hawliau plant manwl wedi nodi'r effaith ar hawliau plant, er enghraifft, grantiau gwisgoedd ysgol a chyllid i ddysgwyr difreintiedig. Er i'r rhain gael eu gwrthdroi'n ddiweddarach, mae'n peri pryder bod y sefyllfaoedd hyn yn digwydd.' Pwy a ŵyr beth fyddai wedi digwydd pe na bai'r comisiynydd plant wedi bod yno i sefyll dros blant Cymru. Ni fyddai'r penderfyniadau hyn wedi'u gwrthdroi, mae hynny'n sicr. Nid dim ond y methiant i gynnal asesiadau o effaith ar hawliau plant, sy'n peri pryder; mae llawer ohonom ni'n teimlo nad oes unrhyw werth i asesiadau o effaith ar hawliau plant Llywodraeth Cymru. Yn rhy aml o lawer, caiff asesiadau effaith integredig eu cyfleu fel asesiadau effaith hawliau plant - dull sy'n gwbl annigonol ac nid yw'n adlewyrchu gwir effaith penderfyniadau ar hawliau plant Cymru.