English: I believe I may be the only Member left of the committee in the second Assembly that produced the three-stage report on which these proposals are based. It does go back a long way, and this does replicate many of the recommendations in that committee. We took evidence from Baroness Warnock, whose original recommendations led to the introduction of statementing in 1981. And she told us that the system had become needlessly bureaucratic, that it was originally intended that 1 per cent of pupils might need statements and it had risen to 5 per cent, but, nonetheless, that the needs of that particular cohort with complex specific needs still needed to be protected. How will you ensure, therefore, and assure parents like me, and many others, who had to battle for a statement to access the services otherwise being rationed; parents like me and others, who, once armed with a statement, could, only because of its legal status, access services that were withdrawn from my child and others in his unit, because we had that statement; and parents across Wales who've seen the rate of exclusions of children without statements, but with additional learning needs, doubling since the emphasis on statements was withdrawn, that replacing a legal document, which the statement is, with your proposals for a generic individual development plan meeting the needs of all learners, will not water down the legal status and strength that that legal document - that very important statement - provided for parents like me, and continues to provide for many other parents across Wales?
Welsh: Rwy'n credu efallai mai fi yw'r unig Aelod sydd ar ôl o bwyllgor yr ail Gynulliad a gynhyrchodd yr adroddiad tri chyfnod y mae'r cynigion hyn yn seiliedig arnynt. Mae hynny'n mynd yn ôl yn bell, ac mae hyn yn ailadrodd llawer o argymhellion y pwyllgor hwnnw. Cawsom dystiolaeth gan y Farwnes Warnock; ei hargymhellion gwreiddiol hi a arweiniodd at gyflwyno datganiadau yn 1981. A dywedodd hi wrthym fod y system wedi dod yn ddiangen o fiwrocrataidd, mai'r bwriad gwreiddiol oedd y gallai fod angen datganiadau ar 1 y cant o ddisgyblion a bod hynny wedi codi i 5 y cant, ond, serch hynny, bod yr angen i ddiogelu anghenion y garfan benodol honno ag anghenion penodol cymhleth yn dal i fodoli. Sut y byddwch chi'n sicrhau, felly, ac yn tawelu meddyliau rhieni fel fi, a llawer o bobl eraill, a oedd yn gorfod brwydro am ddatganiad, i gael mynediad at y gwasanaethau a oedd fel arall yn cael eu dogni; rhieni fel fi ac eraill, a oedd, ar ôl cael datganiad, yn gallu, dim ond oherwydd ei statws cyfreithiol, cael mynediad at wasanaethau a gafodd eu tynnu'n ôl oddi wrth fy mhlentyn ac eraill yn ei uned, oherwydd bod y datganiad hwnnw gennym; a rhieni ledled Cymru sydd wedi gweld cyfraddau eithrio plant heb ddatganiadau, ond sydd ag anghenion dysgu ychwanegol, yn dyblu ers i'r pwyslais ar ddatganiadau gael ei dynnu'n ôl, na fydd disodli dogfen gyfreithiol, sef y datganiad, â'ch cynigion ar gyfer cynllun datblygu unigol generig i ddiwallu anghenion pob dysgwr, yn lleihau'r statws cyfreithiol a'r cryfder a ddarparodd y ddogfen gyfreithiol honno - y datganiad pwysig iawn hwnnw - i rieni fel fi, a'r statws y mae'n parhau i'w ddarparu i lawer o rieni eraill ledled Cymru?