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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Yes. Thank you, Julie Morgan, for that question. And sorry, Sioned, can I apologise to you, because you did raise the issue of baby bundles? So, I'll answer this for both of you. But can I just say, before I answer that about baby bundles, that I absolutely…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Jenny. That's a hugely important point that you're raising, and what we should be having is services through maternity and neonatal services. We do have a safety support programme, and that should be delivering the kinds of things that, absolutely…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Mabon, for that question, and I'm really not trying to avoid answering the question, but this is really a question for my colleague Sarah Murphy, the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being, and she is sat here, she has heard what you've said…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Lesley Griffiths, for that question, and you're absolutely right: community hubs are one of those real success stories. They're being funded through the integrated and rebalancing care fund. So, there's a fund that has been made available through…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Sioned, for those points—quite a lot in there, and, again, we're not on a different page on these things; we have exactly the same objectives in terms of wanting to eradicate child poverty and wanting to ensure that our children have the best start…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Can I first of all just talk about ALN and neurodiversity, because that sits with my colleague Sarah Murphy, the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being? I'm sure, if you want to address those views, she's listened to what you've said today, and I'm sure…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Gareth Davies, for those points and questions, much of which I absolutely agree with. I think we are on the same page in wanting to achieve the best outcomes for the children in their first 1,000 days and this really is what the statement is all…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you for the opportunity to be able to make this statement here today. As the Minister for Children and Social Care, of course, I'm committed to ensuring that all babies and young children, irrespective of their background, are supported to have the best…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The importance of the first 1,000 days of life—Conception to 2 years
Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you for the opportunity to make this statement.
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Thank you for that series of questions. There are a couple of things. Sorry, Altaf, you did raise the issue of data earlier on, so I'll deal with it now in response to Rhys ab Owen. Data collection, absolutely, is vitally important, because it provides the…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Thank you for that, Jane, and I absolutely hear your challenge about the change of pace. What I hope is that this won't be a huge change for people who are involved in the commissioning of services. What it is doing is introducing consistency and putting it…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Can I thank Julie Morgan for those points and those questions? And I also thank you, Julie, for the work that you did leading up to the formation and drafting of the national framework. I know that you were very heavily involved in that before I became…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Can I thank you, Mabon, for those points and for your general welcome for the commissioning framework? I think we are in the same place in terms of what we're seeking to achieve on all of this. I'm not going to deal with the issues that are, quite rightly…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Diolch yn fawr, Altaf, and thank you for those comments and questions, and for your general welcome of the framework. As I said, we are establishing this to enable the framework to apply equally to the commissioning of care by both local authorities and…
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Statement by the Minister for Children and Social Care: The National Framework for the Commissioning of Care and Support in Wales
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Now, as Minister for Children and Social Care, it's a great responsibility and an honour to represent and champion the sector within Government. Last week, the Prif Weinidog announced priorities shaped by the people of Wales, and she…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
I think it's important to say that the SUSR, yes, is about reviews when things have gone wrong, but more importantly, they're about how we prevent things from going wrong in the future. Without repeating everything that we've said before, it is about all of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
I do think, Chair, that it's really important, where we have—. We have a very open border, a very porous border, with England, and there is a lot of cross-border activity, particularly around safeguarding and looked-after children and so on. Where we can…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
But I'm happy to report back to the committee on that once that's happened.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes. As I've said previously, I am going to be meeting the UK safeguarding Minister, Jess Phillips, in a couple of weeks' time, so I will be raising this with her, because in particular I do want to talk to her about some of the good practice that we're…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
There's absolutely no doubt that third sector organisations, particularly organisations like the National Youth Advocacy Service, that are working very closely with children and young people, do amazing work supporting those people, particularly those young…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Good question. [Inaudible.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Safeguarding boards, obviously—I'm sure all the committee members know this, but, for the record—include health boards, they include NHS trusts, they include local authorities, education and social services, they include police and others. So, all of the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
And I would say, one of the things that I've been very keen to ensure that we see right across the 22 local authorities and health boards, following on from what Alistair was just saying, is consistency of practice. I think we see too much inconsistency. We…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
It is, and it's still quite early days, isn't it, and we're working with them. We're having a seminar—a summit—in December.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
So, we now have 56. Well, actually, it'll be more than that now—it will be 60, and if the final local authority signs up, it will be 61 public and third sector organisations that have signed up. We're asking all of those organisations to work with us to…
