Hywel Williams
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Hywel Williams | |
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 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Member of Parliament for Arfon Caernarfon (2001–2010) | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 30 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Dafydd Wigley |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Leader of Plaid Cymru in the House of Commons | |
| In office 10 September 2015 – 14 June 2017 | |
| Leader | Leanne Wood |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Edwards |
| Succeeded by | Liz Saville Roberts |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hywel Williams 14 May 1953 |
| Party | Plaid Cymru |
| Alma mater | University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University) |
Hywel Williams (born 14 May 1953)[1] is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arfon, previously Caernarfon, from 2001 to 2024.
Hywel Williams was born in Pwllheli in 1953,[2] and went to school at Pwllheli Grammar School and then Ysgol Glan y Môr.[3]
He studied Psychology at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University) before qualifying as a social worker at University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) in 1977/78. He was a mental health social worker in the Dwyfor area before joining the Centre for Social Work Practice at the University of Wales, Bangor in 1985.[4]
Williams was a project worker at the centre, specialising in developing practice through the medium of Welsh, developing a host of short courses available in Welsh for the first time, as well as producing and editing numerous books and training packages with his colleagues, including the first ever social work vocabulary in Welsh. He was appointed Head of the Centre in 1993.[5]
In 1995, Williams left to work as a freelance lecturer, consultant and writer in the fields of social policy, social work, and social care, working primarily in Welsh. For the next six years, he worked for a variety of universities and colleges in Wales and abroad, as well as working for public bodies, charities, private companies and local and central government, including spending time as an adviser to the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee.[6]
He has been a member of numerous professional bodies in relation to social work and training, and was also spokesman for the Child Poverty Action Group in Wales.[7]
