Social care
Care for older and disabled people, the care workforce, getting people home from hospital, unpaid carers, children's services and safeguarding.
In the Programme for Government this sits under the well-being objective Building a health and care service fit for the future, and cutting waiting lists.
Showing the theme Care homes and home care. The Programme commitments are the brief's as a whole.
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The debate so far
Since May 2026 the Senedd has returned often to people stuck in hospital for want of social care, and to how councils will fund it. Plaid Cymru Ministers have set out plans for a national care service, a care academy and a carers strategy. Opposition Members have pressed for delivery, funding and timetables. Separate debates covered unpaid carers, corporate parenting for care-experienced young people, and safeguarding.
The main arguments
- Jane Dodds (Welsh Liberal Democrats) said 1,275 people were stuck in hospital awaiting social care, citing a WLGA funding gap of over £200 million. She later cited 558 at Christmas and 111 from Powys in May.
- Peter Fox (Welsh Conservatives) asked whether councils would receive a significant funding uplift to deliver workforce and pay reform. Iain McIntosh (Reform UK) said care packages can cost up to £10,000 a day and asked why.
