English: The purpose of the child practice review is not that of investigation, but to consider our services and help us to learn what we can to improve what we can do to protect children. I am grateful to the review panel for ensuring that they considered areas of learning that have been identified in other reviews throughout Wales and England while conducting this child practice review. It is right that we continue to consider the learning from other such tragic incidents in formulating the approach that is required to make improvements to ensure the protection of children in Wales. It is, however, a sad and recurring fact that such reviews share, in many cases, similar themes, particularly regarding challenges in sharing knowledge and information across agencies, issues regarding systems and processes, and concerns about leadership and culture. We would all wish for a world where such events as these could never happen and that this would be the last case of its kind. That we cannot always identify individuals who could act like those convicted of Logan's murder would suggest that it won't be. However, that must not prevent us from doing everything in our power to reduce the risk as much as we can and provide the help that children in Logan's position need and deserve. The review clearly demonstrates that there is scope for practice improvement. Our focus must be to concentrate on the four key learning themes identified within the review that must be considered with the same care and urgency as the 10 local and five national recommendations identified. The learning themes identified are described in the report as being systematic and not isolated instances of individual error or poor practice. It is clear to see from the review that the recommendations are not allocated to one single agency. Child protection requires a multi-agency approach and, as such, all actions required to address these learning themes and implement the recommendations must be taken forward together, based on shared responsibility. The National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 set out the statutory duties for local authorities and local health boards in Wales. While these agencies, of course, must always adhere to such legislation, I will be looking to strengthen the ways in which agencies in Wales work more closely together to deliver our essential services. We all have a responsibility to implement the learning identified within this child practice review and to work together to carry out the actions required to effect change in the systems in which our professionals work and to support them in delivering their work. I expect all relevant agencies to consider the child practice review in full, to take immediate steps to consider how each theme and recommendation applies to them, and to identify how the learning themes and recommendations can be acted upon within the areas for which they are responsible. I will be contacting the senior leaders of agencies who have a responsibility in taking forward the recommendations of the review to ascertain their intended course of action in terms of their response to the child practice review. Welsh Government has a key strategic role in protecting children, especially the most vulnerable, and I fully accept my role as a Minister in that. In the light of this review and following the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and work already under way in relation to our children's services transformation programme and elsewhere, I will be accelerating work on a national practice framework to help inform decision making in children's services. The framework will be a key foundation for how we work in Wales to ensure the best outcomes for our most vulnerable children. It'll help us achieve greater commonality and more seamless working at local, regional and national level so that we can support children to remain with their families, and provide them with the support they need as we transition to fitting services around people, not people around services. Care Inspectorate Wales have agreed to undertake a rapid review of structures and processes in place to inform decisions about how a child is added to or removed from a child protection register, and I will act on their findings, as necessary. I am aware of the calls for an independent inquiry into children's services in Wales. Having now read the child practice review, I remain convinced that the time is now for action and not for further review. The findings and recommendations of the child practice review have been generated with consideration of other reviews in England and Wales, and it must be our priority to do what we can now and not wait for another report to tell us what we know already that we have to do. To improve the multi-agency approach that I have outlined today, I want to remind Members that we are in the final stages of developing the single unified safeguarding review, which has been developed jointly with stakeholders across Wales. The single unified safeguarding review has been developed to reduce the need for multiple reviews against a same single incident, enabling the swifter completion of reviews, such as child and adult practice reviews, to identify and implement all learning more quickly and on a pan-Wales basis. The draft statutory guidance to support the single unified safeguarding review will be subject to a public consultation exercise, which is planned for early in the new year. Whilst it's not routine practice to respond to child practice reviews, I and my Cabinet colleagues felt that it was entirely appropriate to recognise the publication of this review, and I'd like to take this opportunity to personally apologise to Mr Ben Mwangi and his family for the failings that contributed to the tragic loss of Logan's young life. Diolch.
Welsh: Nid pwrpas yr adolygiad ymarfer plant yw cynnal ymchwiliad, ond ystyried ein gwasanaethau ni a'n cynorthwyo ni i ddysgu beth allwn ni ei wneud i wella yr hyn y gallwn ni ei wneud i amddiffyn plant. Rwy'n ddiolchgar i'r panel adolygu am sicrhau eu bod yn ystyried meysydd dysgu a nodwyd mewn adolygiadau eraill ledled Cymru a Lloegr wrth gynnal yr adolygiad ymarfer plant hwn. Mae hi'n iawn i ni barhau i ystyried dysgu o ddigwyddiadau trasig eraill wrth lunio'r dull gweithredu sy'n ofynnol i wneud gwelliannau i sicrhau diogelwch plant yng Nghymru. Fodd bynnag, y ffaith drist a chyson amdani yw bod adolygiadau o'r fath yn rhannu, mewn llawer o achosion, themâu tebyg, yn enwedig ynghylch yr heriau o ran rhannu gwybodaeth a data rhwng asiantaethau, a materion ynghylch systemau a phrosesau, a phryderon ynglŷn ag arweinyddiaeth a diwylliant. Fe fyddem ni i gyd yn dymuno gweld byd lle na allai digwyddiadau fel rhain fyth ddigwydd ac mai hwn fyddai'r achos olaf o'i fath. Mae'r ffaith nad ydym ni'n gallu gwybod pob amser pwy yw'r unigolion a allai weithredu fel y rhai a gafwyd yn euog o lofruddiaeth Logan yn awgrymu na fydd hwn yr olaf. Serch hynny, ni ddylai hynny ein hatal ni rhag gwneud popeth sydd yn ein gallu i leihau'r perygl i'r fath raddau ag y gallwn ni a chynnig y cymorth sydd ei angen ar blant yn sefyllfa Logan ac y maen nhw'n ei haeddu. Mae'r adolygiad yn dangos yn eglur fod cyfle i wella ymarfer. Mae'n rhaid i ni ganolbwyntio ar y pedair thema dysgu allweddol a nodwyd yn yr adolygiad y mae'n rhaid eu hystyried gyda'r un gofal a brys â'r 10 argymhelliad lleol a'r pum argymhelliad cenedlaethol a nodwyd. Disgrifir y themâu dysgu a nodwyd yn yr adroddiad fel rhai cyfundrefnol ac nid achosion ynysig o wall unigol neu arfer gwael mohonyn nhw. Mae hi'n eglur o'r adolygiad nad yw'r argymhellion yn cael eu neilltuo i un asiantaeth unigol. Mae diogelu plant yn gofyn am ddull amlasiantaeth ac, o'r herwydd, mae'n rhaid i'r holl gamau sydd eu hangen i fynd i'r afael â'r themâu dysgu hyn a gweithredu'r argymhellion gael eu cyflwyno gyda'i gilydd, ar sail cyfrifoldeb a rennir. Mae Deddf Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol (Cymru) 2006 a Deddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru) 2014, yn nodi'r dyletswyddau statudol sydd ar awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd lleol yng Nghymru. Tra bod yn rhaid i'r asiantaethau hyn, wrth gwrs, gadw at ddeddfwriaeth o'r fath bob amser, byddaf yn ceisio cryfhau'r dulliau fel bod asiantaethau yng Nghymru yn cydweithio â'i gilydd yn fwy agos i ddarparu ein gwasanaethau hanfodol. Mae cyfrifoldeb gan bob un ohonom ni i weithredu'r hyn a ddysgwyd a nodir yn yr adolygiad ymarfer plant hwn a gweithio gyda'n gilydd i gyflawni'r camau sydd eu hangen i greu newid yn y systemau y mae ein gweithwyr proffesiynol yn gweithio ynddyn nhw a'u cefnogi i gyflawni eu gwaith. Rwy'n disgwyl i'r holl asiantaethau perthnasol ystyried yr adolygiad ymarfer plant yn ei gyfanrwydd, a chymryd camau ar unwaith i ystyried sut mae pob thema ac argymhelliad yn berthnasol iddyn nhw, a nodi sut y gellir gweithredu'r themâu a'r argymhellion dysgu o fewn y meysydd y maen nhw'n gyfrifol amdanynt. Byddaf yn cysylltu ag uwch arweinwyr asiantaethau sydd â chyfrifoldeb wrth fwrw ymlaen ag argymhellion yr adolygiad i ganfod eu cwrs gweithredu arfaethedig o ran eu hymateb i'r adolygiad ymarfer plant. Mae gan Lywodraeth Cymru swyddogaeth strategol allweddol o ran amddiffyn plant, yn enwedig y rhai mwyaf agored i niwed, ac rwy'n derbyn fy swyddogaeth i yn llwyr yn hynny o beth, fel Gweinidog. Yng ngoleuni'r adolygiad hwn ac yn dilyn adroddiad yr Ymchwiliad Annibynnol i Gam-drin Plant yn Rhywiol a gwaith sydd eisoes ar y gweill o ran ein rhaglen i drawsnewid gwasanaethau plant a meysydd eraill, byddaf yn cyflymu gwaith ar fframwaith ymarfer cenedlaethol i helpu i lywio'r broses o wneud penderfyniadau gyda gwasanaethau plant. Bydd y fframwaith yn sylfaen allweddol ar gyfer ein dulliau o weithio yng Nghymru er mwyn sicrhau'r canlyniadau gorau i'n plant mwyaf agored i niwed. Fe fydd yn ein helpu ni i fod â mwy o gyffredinrwydd a gweithio mewn ffordd fwy di-dor ar lefel leol, ranbarthol a chenedlaethol er mwyn cefnogi plant i aros gyda'u teuluoedd, a rhoi'r gefnogaeth sydd ei hangen arnyn nhw wrth i ni newid i addasu gwasanaethau ar gyfer pobl, ac nid addasu pobl ar gyfer gwasanaethau. Mae Arolygiaeth Gofal Cymru wedi cytuno i gynnal adolygiad cyflym o strwythurau a phrosesau sydd ar waith i lywio penderfyniadau ynghylch sut mae plentyn yn cael ei ychwanegu at neu ei dynnu oddi ar y gofrestr amddiffyn plant, ac fe fyddaf i'n gweithredu ar eu canfyddiadau nhw, yn ôl yr angen. Rwy'n ymwybodol o'r galwadau am ymchwiliad annibynnol i wasanaethau plant yng Nghymru. Gan fy mod wedi darllen yr adolygiad ymarfer plant erbyn hyn, rwyf i'n parhau i fod wedi fy argyhoeddi mai nawr yw'r amser i weithredu ac nid i adolygu ymhellach. Lluniwyd canfyddiadau ac argymhellion yr adolygiad ymarfer plant gydag ystyriaeth o adolygiadau eraill yng Nghymru a Lloegr, ac mae'n rhaid i ni flaenoriaethu gwneud yr hyn a allwn ni nawr a pheidio ag aros am adroddiad arall i ddweud yr hyn yr ydym ni'n gwybod yn barod y mae'n rhaid i ni ei wneud. I wella'r dull amlasiantaeth a amlinellais i heddiw, rwy'n dymuno atgoffa'r Aelodau ein bod ni ar gamau olaf datblygu'r adolygiad diogelu unedig sengl, a ddatblygwyd ar y cyd â rhanddeiliaid ledled Cymru. Datblygwyd yr adolygiad diogelu unedig sengl i leihau'r angen am nifer o adolygiadau oherwydd un digwyddiad unigol, gan alluogi cwblhau adolygiadau yn gyflymach, megis adolygiadau ymarfer plant ac oedolion, i nodi a gweithredu'r holl ddysgu ar fwy o gyflymder a hynny ym mhob cwr o Gymru. Fe fydd y canllawiau statudol drafft i gefnogi'r adolygiad diogelu unedig sengl yn destun ymarfer ymgynghori cyhoeddus, sydd wedi'i gynllunio ar gyfer dechrau'r flwyddyn newydd. Er nad yw hi'n arfer arferol i ymateb i adolygiadau ymarfer plant, roeddwn i a fy nghyd-Aelodau yn y Cabinet o'r farn ei bod hi'n gwbl briodol cydnabod cyhoeddiad yr adolygiad hwn, ac fe hoffwn i achub ar y cyfle hwn i ymddiheuro yn bersonol i Mr Ben Mwangi a'i deulu am y methiannau a gyfrannodd at farwolaeth drasig Logan mor ifanc. Diolch.