ABOUT ME

I’m available to help residents in Cardiff West with education, environment, health and social services, transport, and other local issues.

ABOUT ME

I was born and brought up in west Wales before moving to Cardiff more than 40 years ago. Since then I have lived in the Pontcanna area of Cardiff.
A former probation officer, youth justice worker and Barnardos project leader in Ely and Caerau, I have been a professor of Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences at Cardiff University. I also taught previously at Swansea University.
In the 1980s and 1990s, I was a Labour Councillor on South Glamorgan County Council, specialising in education issues, including Welsh medium education. Between 2000 and 2010, I worked as the Cabinet’s health and social policy adviser at the Welsh Government, and was latterly head of the First Minister’s political office.

I became the Assembly Member for Cardiff West in May 2011 and was re-elected in May 2016. Shortly after the new Government was formed, I was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government. In December 2018, I was elected as the Leader of Welsh Labour and shortly after the First Minister of Wales.

My five years as First Minister was marked by a series of global challenges, including Brexit, coronavirus, Ukraine and the cost of living crisis. Despite these challenges, we pressed ahead with the promises we made at the 2021 election: reforming coal tip safety, banning single-use plastics, eliminating the pursuit of private profit in services for looked-after children, reforming the school year, reforming council tax and making our residential streets safer through the 20mph speed limit. We have also achieved direct new investment in schools, including major investments in Cantonian, Riverbank, Woodlands and Fitzalan schools.

Since stepping down from the First Minister role in March 2024, I continue to serve the Cardiff West constituency and work for what will not only make the greatest difference today, but for future generations.

ABOUT CARDIFF WEST

My vision for Cardiff West is rooted in my political beliefs about the creation of a society in which prosperity is created and shared, in which opportunity is fairly distributed and where poverty is an enemy to be abolished. Labour’s ambition for Cardiff and for Wales remains the development of a more equal society, in which everyone is able to make the most of their talents and abilities and to make a contribution to the wider life of the community in which we live.

I represent constituents of the following wards: Riverside, Canton, Ely, Caerau, Fairwater, Llandaff, Radyr & Morganstown, Pentyrch, Creigiau & St Fagans.

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As your Member of the Senedd (MS), I can help constituents on various issues, such as education, the environment, health and social services, highways, transport, and housing.

Please use the contact form to get in touch with me. Please remember to provide as many details as possible, including your name, address and full details of your issue.

Alternatively, you can write to me at: Welsh Parliament, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF99 1SN and 395 Cowbridge Road East
Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1JG.

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