 Children and Young People Committee recognises issues raised by the DCMW campaign in a report on children's budgeting published this week.
The report can be downloaded from the Committee's website.
In March 2009, Nicollette Shercliff, Keith Bowen and Zoe Richards from the DCMW campaign went to the Senedd to give evidence to the Children and Young People Committee which was looking into children's budgeting.
The campaign identified the following as key issues:
* Failure of the policy making process to influence budgetary decisions.
* Lack of transparency in the budgetary process.
* Inadequate systems to provide a detailed breakdown of funding.
* Chronic need to identify spending on disabled children.
The Committee has now published its report. The report calls for closer examination of how much, and how well, money is being spent at local and national level on issues affecting children and young people in Wales. The Committee recommends that the Welsh Government publishes a single strategy - and action plan detailing how it will be achieved - to make expenditure on children and young people more transparent.
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