Clause 5 - Further functions of the commissioner
Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill
11:45 am
Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent, Conservative)
I hope that among the commissioner's rights and responsibilities will be the obligation to publish his report in terms that are easily accessible to young people. A lot of young people have attended the steering group of United Kingdom Youth Parliament to establish the first Session, which will be at the end of February. That group has urged upon Ministers that White Papers and other policy documents that affect young people should be summarised or put on the web in a form that is easily accessible. I endorse that because, if they can make those documents understandable to young people, they may make them understandable to me. It would be a huge step forward if, as part of his obligations, he were charged to produce a summary report of his activities in a form that young people would find accessible.