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NDM6113 Debate: Tackling Hate Crime – Progress and Challenges

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11/10/2016 - Debate: Tackling Hate Crime - Progress and Challenges

The item started at 17.27

NDM6113 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes the progress made through the Welsh Government's Tackling Hate Crime Framework.

2. Recognises, in light of recent events, the continuing challenges posed by hate crime.

The following amendment was tabled:

Amendment 1 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Notes the key recommendations of the 'All Wales Hate Crime Research Project', which include that:

a) more needs to be done to increase the confidence of victims and witnesses to report hate incidents and to promote the view that reporting hate is the "right thing to do"; and

b) more should be done to ensure that hate crime perpetrators are dealt with effectively and that restorative approaches should be made more widely available in Wales.

Amendment 1 was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

NDM6113 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes the progress made through the Welsh Government's Tackling Hate Crime Framework.

2. Recognises, in light of recent events, the continuing challenges posed by hate crime.

3. Notes the key recommendations of the 'All Wales Hate Crime Research Project', which include that:

a) more needs to be done to increase the confidence of victims and witnesses to report hate incidents and to promote the view that reporting hate is the "right thing to do"; and

b) more should be done to ensure that hate crime perpetrators are dealt with effectively and that restorative approaches should be made more widely available in Wales.

The motion as amended was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.