Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance - Info
Cymru/Wales
Sdim Curo Plant!/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru ('SCP!/CAU! Cymru) co-ordinates and promotes the campaign in Wales. The campaign is directed by a Strategy Group with representatives from Children in Wales, NSPCC, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Action for Children, Barnardo's and Save the Children.
The Aims of the Alliance are:
- to change the law so that children and young people have the same protection from being hit as adults
- a public education campaign about why ‘smacking’ children is not OK
- for parents to have lots of information and practical advice and support about alternatives to ‘smacking’ and using a positive approach to bringing up children
'Sdim Curo Plant!
sy’n cyd-drefnu ac yn hyrwyddo’r ymgyrch yng Nghymru. Mae’r ymgyrch yn cael ei chyfarwyddo gan Grwˆp Strategaeth gyda chynrychiolwyr o Plant yng Nghymru, NSPCC, Comisiynydd Plant Cymru, Gweithredu dros Blant, Barnardo's ac Achub y Plant.
Nodau’r Gynghrair yw:
- newid y gyfraith fel bod gan blant a phobl ifanc yr un amddiffyniad rhag cael eu curo ag oedolion
- ymgyrch addysg i’r cyhoedd am pam nad yw’n iawn i ‘daro’ plant
- bod gan rieni lawer o wybodaeth a chyngor ymarferol a chefnogaeth am gamau i’w cymryd yn lle ‘taro’ a defnyddio dull positif o fagu plant
O ganlyniad i’r ymgyrchu gan ‘Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable!, y mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru wedi ymrwymo yn gadarn i gynnal Confensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ac i gefnogi amcanion yr ymgyrch.
LATEST NEWS!
CAU! Cymru’s response to the Welsh Government’s consultation on legislation to end violence against women and domestic abuse, February 2013.
The response focuses on one crucial measure for combating domestic abuse – prohibiting and eliminating the physical punishment of children. It explains how the White Paper highlights the risk of harm for children who witness violence between adults, it fails to address the risk of harm for children who experience violence through physical punishment, despite the evidence that links it to domestic violence in adult life.
Ymateb ‘SCP! Cymru i ymgynghoriad Llywodraeth Cymru ar ddeddfwriaeth i roi terfyn ar drais yn erbyn menywod a chamdriniaeth ddomestig, Chwefror 2013.
Mae’r ymateb yn canolbwyntio ar un cam hanfodol ar gyfer goresgyn camdriniaeth ddomestig sef gwahardd a dileu cosbi plant yn gorfforol. Mae’n esbonio sut mae’r Papur Gwyn yn amlygu’r risg niwed i blant sy’n dystion i drais rhwng oedolion, ond yn methu ag ymdrin â’r risg niwed i blant sy’n dioddef trais drwy gosb gorfforol, er gwaetha’r dystiolaeth sy’n ei chysylltu â thrais domestig yn eu bywyd fel oedolion.
A chance for Wales to be the first nation of the UK to remove the defence of 'reasonable punishment'?
Last October in a Plenary debate in the Senedd, the National Assembly for Wales expressed strong cross party support for a motion (tabled by a number of AMs) urging the Welsh Government to bring forward legislation to provide children in Wales with equal protection from assault.
Members of the National Assembly for Wales and successive Welsh governments have been active supporters of legal reform for many years. Following the results of the Referendum in March 2011, we understand that the Welsh Government has been advised that the Assembly does now have the power to make the necessary changes in the law, i.e. to remove the defence of ‘reasonable chastisement’. This provides an exciting opportunity for Wales to lead on implementing equal protection for children in the UK.
While the Assembly supported the cross-party motion by 24 votes to 15, the Welsh Government argued that while it still supported the need for reform, more had to be done to pave the way for legislation. For more information on the debate please click here. To see a transcript of the debate and the AMs voting record please click here.
In response to these new opportunities ’Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru are actively working to consolidate and develop support for legal reform in Wales. We want to ensure that the removal the defence of ‘reasonable punishment’ and the implementation of equal protection for children - is achieved in Wales, as soon as possible. Please read our briefing and an article on a visit some Assembly Members recently made to Finland to see how they had legislated to ban the physical punishment of children in all settings.
What you can do?
The success of ’Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable Alliance! Cymru in achieving equal protection for children in Wales depends on the broad range of support it enjoys from key organisations and individual supporters. Please help us to get more supporters signed up. Here is all the information you need.
If you can offer more help or ideas, please contact our campaign co-ordinator in Wales on cau@childreninwales.org.uk
Cyfle i Gymru fod cenedl gyntaf y DU i ddileu amddiffyniad ‘cerydd rhesymol’?
Fis Hydref diwethaf mewn Trafodaeth Lawn yn y Senedd, mynegodd Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru gefnogaeth drawsbleidiol gryf am gynnig (a gyflwynwyd gan nifer o ACau) yn annog Llywodraeth Cymru i gyflwyno deddfwriaeth i roi amddiffyniad cyfartal rhag ymosodiad i blant yng Nghymru.
Mae aelodau o Gynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru a llywodraethau olynol Cymru yn gefnogwyr gweithgar diwygio’r gyfraith ers blynyddoedd lawer. Yn dilyn canlyniadau’r Refferendwm ym mis Mawrth 2011, cawn ar ddeall fod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cael cyngor bod gan y Cynulliad bellach y pwˆer i wneud y newidiadau angenrheidiol i’r gyfraith, h.y. dileu amddiffyniad ‘cerydd rhesymol’. Mae hyn yn cynnig cyfle cyffrous i Gymru arwain y ffordd o ran gweithredu amddiffyniad cyfartal i blant yn y DU.
Er i’r Cynulliad gefnogi’r cynnig trawsbleidiol drwy 24 pleidlais i 15, dadleuodd Llywodraeth Cymru, er ei bod yn dal i gefnogi’r angen am ddiwygiad, bod yn rhaid gwneud mwy i baratoi’r ffordd am ddeddfwriaeth. Am ragor o wybodaeth am y drafodaeth cliciwch yma. I weld adysgrif o’r drafodaeth a sut y pleidleisiodd ACau cliciwch yma.
Mewn ymateb i’r cyfleoedd newydd hyn mae ’Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable! Cymru wrthi’n gweithio i gyfnerthu a meithrin cefnogaeth dros ddiwygio’r gyfraith yng Nghymru. Rydym yn dymuno sicrhau bod dileu amddiffyniad ‘cerydd rhesymol’ a gweithredu amddiffyniad cyfartal i blant yn cael ei gyflawni yng Nghymru, a hynny cyn gynted â phosibl. Darllenwch ein crynodeb ac erthygl am ymweliad gan rai Aelodau o’r Cynulliad â’r Ffindir yn ddiweddar i weld sut maen nhw wedi deddfu i wahardd cosbi plant yn gorfforol ym mhob cyd-destun.
Beth allwch chi ei wneud?
Mae llwyddiant ’Sdim Curo Plant/Children are Unbeatable Alliance! Cymru i gyflawni amddiffyniad cyfartal i blant yng Nghymru yn dibynnu ar y gefnogaeth eang mae’n ei mwynhau gan gyrff allweddol a chefnogwyr unigol. Helpwch ni i ddenu mwy o gefnogwyr i gofrestru. Dyma’r holl wybodaeth mae arnoch chi ei hangen.
Os gallwch chi gynnig mwy o help neu syniadau, cysylltwch â chydlynydd ein hymgyrch yng Nghymru ar cau@childreninwales.org.uk