English: Although the partnership principle of the original Act still holds, today's social, political, economic and environmental conditions in Wales are clearly very different to those in which community safety partnerships were established in the 1990s. Today's challenges include a range of new types of crime, including modern slavery and hate crime, the escalating threat from international terrorism, the influence of new psychoactive substances and the effects of cyber-enabled offending. Public service structures in Wales have evolved since 1998 as a result of devolution, and there have been numerous changes to the primary legislation itself. The Auditor General for Wales's critical report 'Community safety in Wales', published in October 2016, suggested that Welsh community safety partnerships were not as effective as they should be. It highlighted important issues including the complex and confusing policy landscape in which partners now operate, and concerns about leadership and accountability in the delivery of community safety priorities. However, the report doesn't fully reflect our work to create more sustainable partnership approaches to public services delivery. The recommendations are also unlikely to address the challenges and issues that the auditor general himself identifies. Building on previous work, we have now undertaken a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of community safety partnership working in Wales. I am confident this will help us further develop the many successes of the Welsh Government's approach. In partnership with the Youth Justice Board Cymru, we have achieved significant and sustained reductions in the number of first-time entrants to the youth justice system. We have halved the number of fire casualties and fires, including grass fires set deliberately. Welsh police forces have recruited an additional 500 community support officers, paid for by the Welsh Government, while many areas in England are losing these valuable community assets. We have introduced groundbreaking legislation to address violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence and are leading the way with our pioneering work to address modern slavery. Announcing the nature and scope of the review in March, the former Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children, Carl Sargeant, said he wanted the review to be ambitious in its thinking and that the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 gave us an unprecedented opportunity to establish a sustainable approach to safer communities. I am pleased to say that the review has lived up to his hopes, placing the sustainable development principle at the heart of its approach. It has involved the widest possible range of stakeholders, aided by an oversight group with representation from local government, fire and rescue services, police and crime commissioners, the Youth Justice Board Cymru, police chiefs, probation and prison services, the third sector and UK Government departments. As the review report is being published today, I do not propose to rehearse its conclusions here this afternoon. I will, however, say that I'm very encouraged by the overriding conclusion that, despite the issues and challenges identified by the auditor general, we have much to be proud of and to build upon in establishing a new and shared vision for working together for safer communities. This vision will be achieved through collaborative and integrated multi-agency activity that is evidence based and intelligence led, is supported by appropriate skills and knowledge, is sustainably resourced and matches local needs, engages and involves citizens, takes a preventative approach and intervenes as early as possible, and focuses on long-term improvements and benefits. This is a vision that is underpinned by our Welsh Government ambition to create prosperity for all. The Welsh Government is therefore committed to a long-term safer communities programme of work in partnership with our devolved and non-devolved partners and stakeholders. The safer communities programme of work will: work with the justice commission for Wales to consider how we can do things differently in Wales and identify options for the development of a distinct Welsh justice system; develop a different relationship and strategic approach with non-devolved community safety partners, which establishes a more effective community safety leadership role for Welsh Government; establish a community safety partnership policy and practice leadership function within the Welsh Government; and, finally, develop new Wales-specific guidance that builds upon the sustainable development principle and the hallmarks of effective partnership. We will consider how to establish a new and inclusive national community safety network for Wales to support future Welsh community safety policy and practice development, and to help to build the appropriate skills and knowledge required. We will explore opportunities for piloting joint thematic inspection arrangements for partnership working around the reducing reoffending theme, and we will consider how to improve community safety funding programmes to secure longer term and more flexible outcomes-focused funding. Deputy Presiding Officer, I look forward to working with our many partners and stakeholders, both devolved and non-devolved, in leading this programme to help us achieve our ambitions and sustainable vision for safer communities and prosperity for all across Wales.
Welsh: Er bod yr egwyddor o bartneriaeth yn y Ddeddf wreiddiol yn parhau, mae'r amgylchiadau cymdeithasol, gwleidyddol, economaidd ac amgylcheddol yng Nghymru heddiw yn amlwg yn wahanol iawn i'r rhai a gafwyd pan sefydlwyd y partneriaethau diogelwch cymunedol yn y 1990au. Mae heriau heddiw yn cynnwys amrywiaeth o fathau newydd o droseddau, gan gynnwys caethwasiaeth fodern a throseddau casineb, y bygythiad cynyddol o derfysgaeth ryngwladol, dylanwad sylweddau seicoweithredol newydd ac effeithiau troseddau a gyflawnir ar y we. Mae strwythurau gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yng Nghymru wedi esblygu ers 1998 o ganlyniad i ddatganoli, a chafwyd nifer o newidiadau i'r ddeddfwriaeth sylfaenol ei hun. Roedd adroddiad beirnidaol Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru 'Diogelwch cymunedol yng Nghymru', a gyhoeddwyd ym mis Hydref 2016, yn awgrymu nad oedd partneriaethau diogelwch cymunedol Cymru mor effeithiol ag y dylen nhw fod. Tynnodd sylw at faterion pwysig, gan gynnwys y dirwedd polisi gymhleth a dryslyd y mae partneriaid bellach yn gweithredu ynddi, ac at bryderon o ran arweinyddiaeth ac atebolrwydd wrth gyflawni blaenoriaethau diogelwch cymunedol. Fodd bynnag, nid yw'r adroddiad yn adlewyrchu'n llawn ein gwaith i greu dulliau o bartneriaeth sy'n gynaliadwy i ddarpariaeth gwasanaethau cyhoeddus. Mae'r argymhellion hefyd yn annhebygol o fynd i'r afael â'r heriau a'r materion y mae'r Archwilydd Cyffredinol ei hun yn eu nodi. Gan adeiladu ar waith blaenorol, rydym bellach wedi ymgymryd ag adolygiad cynhwysfawr ac eang o bartneriaeth diogelwch cymunedol fel y mae'n gweithio yng Nghymru. Rwy'n hyderus y bydd hyn yn ein helpu i ddatblygu ymhellach ar lwyddiannau niferus dull Llywodraeth Cymru o weithredu. Mewn partneriaeth â Bwrdd Cyfiawnder Ieuenctid Cymru, rydym wedi cyflawni gostyngiadau sylweddol a pharhaus yn nifer y rhai sy'n dod gerbron y system cyfiawnder ieuenctid am y tro cyntaf. Rydym wedi haneru nifer y rhai sy'n marw oherwydd tân a thanau, gan gynnwys tanau glaswellt bwriadol. Mae heddluoedd Cymru wedi recriwtio 500 o swyddogion cymorth cymunedol yn ychwanegol, y talwyd amdanyn nhw gan Lywodraeth Cymru, tra bo llawer o ardaloedd yn Lloegr yn colli'r asedau cymunedol gwerthfawr hyn. Rydym wedi cyflwyno deddfwriaeth arloesol i fynd i'r afael â thrais yn erbyn menywod, cam-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol ac rydym yn dangos y ffordd gyda'n gwaith arloesol i fynd i'r afael â chaethwasiaeth fodern. Wrth gyhoeddi natur a chwmpas yr adolygiad ym mis Mawrth, dywedodd cyn-Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros gymunedau a phlant, Carl Sargeant, ei fod yn awyddus i'r adolygiad fod yn uchelgeisiol ei feddylfyd a bod Deddf Llesiant Cenedlaethau'r Dyfodol (Cymru) 2015 wedi rhoi inni gyfle hollol newydd i sefydlu dull cynaliadwy o greu cymunedau mwy diogel. Rwy'n falch o ddweud bod yr adolygiad wedi gwireddu ei obeithion ef, gan osod egwyddor datblygiad cynaliadwy wrth wraidd ei ddull o weithredu. Mae wedi cynnwys yr ystod ehangaf bosibl o randdeiliaid, wedi eu cynorthwyo gan grŵp goruchwylio gyda chynrychiolaeth o Lywodraeth Leol, gwasanaethau tân ac achub, comisiynwyr heddlu a throseddu, Bwrdd Cyfiawnder Ieuenctid Cymru, a phenaethiaid yr heddlu, gwasanaethau prawf a charchardai, y trydydd sector ac adrannau o Lywodraeth y DU. Gan y bydd yr adolygiad yn cael ei gyhoeddi heddiw, nid wyf i'n bwriadu ymarfer ei gasgliadau o flaen llaw yma y prynhawn yma. Er hynny, rwyf am ddweud fy mod i wedi cael fy nghalonogi'n fawr gan y canlyniad pwysicaf sef, er gwaethaf y materion a'r heriau a nodwyd gan yr Archwilydd Cyffredinol, fod gennym lawer i ymfalchïo ynddo ac i adeiladu arno wrth sefydlu gweledigaeth newydd a chyffredin i gydweithio ar gyfer cymunedau mwy diogel. Caiff y weledigaeth hon ei chyflawni drwy weithgareddau aml-asiantaeth integredig a chydweithredol sy'n yn seiliedig ar dystiolaeth a gaiff ei thywys gan wybodaeth, a gefnogir gan sgiliau a gwybodaeth briodol, a gaiff ei hadnoddau mewn ffordd sy'n gynaliadwy ac yn cyfateb i anghenion lleol, sydd yn ymgysylltu ac yn cynnwys dinasyddion, yn mabwysiadu dull ataliol ac ymyrryd mor gynnar â phosibl, ac sy'n canolbwyntio ar welliannau a manteision hirdymor. Gweledigaeth yw hon a ategwyd gan ein uchelgais yn Llywodraeth Cymru i greu ffyniant i bawb. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru felly wedi ymrwymo i raglen waith hirdymor o gymunedau mwy diogel mewn partneriaeth â'n partneriaid datganoledig a heb eu datganoli, a rhanddeiliaid. Bydd y rhaglen waith cymunedau mwy diogel yn: gweithio gyda chomisiwn cyfiawnder Cymru i ystyried sut y gallwn wneud pethau'n wahanol yng Nghymru a nodi dewisiadau i ddatblygu system cyfiawnder benodol i Gymru; datblygu perthynas wahanol a dull gweithredu strategol gyda phartneriaid diogelwch cymunedol nad ydyn nhw wedi'u datganoli, sy'n sefydlu swyddogaeth arweinyddiaeth diogelwch cymunedol fwy effeithiol ar gyfer Llywodraeth Cymru; sefydlu polisi partneriaeth diogelwch cymunedol ac ymarfer swyddogaeth arweiniol o fewn Llywodraeth Cymru; ac yn olaf, datblygu canllawiau newydd penodol i Gymru sy'n adeiladu ar yr egwyddor o ddatblygu cynaliadwy ac ar nodweddion partneriaeth effeithiol. Byddwn yn ystyried sut i sefydlu rhwydwaith diogelwch cymunedol cenedlaethol newydd a chynhwysol ar gyfer Cymru i gefnogi datblygiad polisi ac arferion diogelwch cymunedol Cymru i'r dyfodol, ac i helpu i feithrin y sgiliau a'r wybodaeth briodol sydd yn angenrheidiol. Byddwn yn edrych ar gyfleoedd i dreialu trefniadau arolygu ar y cyd ar themâu, gan weithio mewn partneriaeth ar thema lleihau aildroseddu, a byddwn yn ystyried sut i wella rhaglenni sy'n ariannu diogelwch cymunedol er mwyn sicrhau ariannu hirdymor a mwy hyblyg sy'n seiliedig ar ganlyniadau. Dirprwy Lywydd, rwy'n edrych ymlaen at weithio gyda'n partneriaid a'n rhanddeiliaid, y rhai datganoledig a heb eu datganoli. i arwain y rhaglen hon i'n helpu i gyflawni ein huchelgeisiau a'n gweledigaeth gynaliadwy ar gyfer cymunedau mwy diogel a ffyniant i bawb ledled Cymru.