3 July 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
1. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on community healthcare provision in Denbighshire? OQ61372
2 July 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
For the fifth time, I'd like to call for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary with responsibility for local government regarding the ongoing non-collection of recycling since the new waste model was introduced a month ago by the Labour-led Denbighshire…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
So, in that case, you couldn't accurately measure the scale of how good or bad recruitment is in that regard, because, from what you're alluding to, you wouldn't have the data, so how would you measure how successful personal assistants and direct payments…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Sorry, do the local authorities not hold any data on that at all, then, or any agency for that matter?
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Yes. I really appreciate those comprehensive answers. You've answered many of my questions in one go there, but I just wanted to finally ask, with the recruitment and retention issues around the social care workforce, and in particular with PAs, as you've…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Okay.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
And in terms of—
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you, Chair. I'm seeking some thoughts, firstly, on the capacity challenges around social care. Obviously there are the ones that we often speak about in terms of recruitment and retention, which are well known, but then I'm looking for some thoughts on…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you, Chair. Just a summarising question, really, in regard to contributions, questions, answers raised within the last hour. What do you think the main thing is that you want to bring to our attention in terms of our scrutiny of this Bill, and what we…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Yes. Thank you, Chair.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Is that achieved at a local or a national level? That's the second question.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. Section 11 of the Bill inserts a new duty on local authorities to prepare and publish an annual sufficiency plan for accommodation for looked-after children, as Sam and Mark Drakeford have alluded to, around the…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I can certainly sense the passion around this topic from the evidence that we have heard already. In some of your written evidence, you are critical of the preparatory work for this Bill…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Yes. Thanks, Chair. It's mostly a summarising question, really, given that we're at the end of this panel now, and considering all of the details we've discussed in this panel in the past hour, what would you say was the main thing that you want to bring to…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Thanks again, Chair. Yes, just to respond to those points, really. So, I am getting the thing that there's a need for that to be driven nationally through the Bill, but then also to encompass some of those regional realities and perhaps better data streams…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us this morning. My question was about the regional aspect that Sarah's just mentioned. Is there a case to legislate for regional or all-Wales placement planning and commissioning, rather than…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Appointment of Temporary Chair
Yes, thanks, Sarah. I nominate Sam Rowlands.
26 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
The Welsh Government has consistently blamed the UK Government policies for the levels of child poverty here in Wales, which has been criticised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who highlighted that many child poverty reduction measures are within the Welsh…
25 June 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
I was.
25 June 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Investment in the education and training of healthcare professionals 2024-25
Thank you very much for your statement this afternoon, Cabinet Secretary. I want to begin by saying how important it is to ensure that Wales provides easy and affordable access to high-quality education and training of healthcare professionals, and we have to…
25 June 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I would like to call for a statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning on the breakdown of Denbighshire County Council's ability to roll out kerbside waste collections, which was, to some degree, a scheme created in…
19 June 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Nuclear
I celebrate the role of the nuclear industry and show my appreciation for the role that it plays in north Wales, providing over 800 skilled jobs, putting £700 million into the Welsh economy, and providing homes with carbon-neutral electricity solutions. I…
19 June 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office
The housing crisis is one of the biggest challenges we face as a nation, and every year that passes without drastic action is another year of homes becoming more unaffordable and more unavailable, unfortunately. And whilst I agree that urgent action is needed…
18 June 2024 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Back to the real world, I'd like to call for a statement again from the Cabinet Secretary for local government on the waste collection chaos in Denbighshire, which is a result of the Welsh Government-funded scheme. We are three weeks into the Trolibocs bin…
