, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you, John. It is really important and I think it's really good progress that we’ve got this real-time suicide surveillance data. It published its first annual report on 11 January. I don’t know if the committee has seen that report, but we can make sure…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I'm really keen that we work together. I am working closely with the Minister for Social Care, and officials already do. I think it's just important that there are no gaps. I've been trying to think where can I bring the Minister for Social Care in as well or…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Diolch, Mark. Thank you very much for those questions and for your kind words at the start. I really do appreciate it in terms of people with learning disabilities. I think it's a real privilege and a pleasure to actually be a Minister responsible for…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you, Sam. Yes, in my short time in this role, it has really become clear to me, the importance of improving digital and the data set in mental health, and it has really become clear that has to be a top priority, because that really underpins the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes, absolutely. I'm very keen to do that, and I had looked to work with colleagues already before the general election was called, and I will certainly be doing that after that, with whichever Government is formed, because it is so important that we work…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Yes. Thank you, Sam. I appreciate that question. It's really important. I think, while tackling poverty and many other of the social determinants, as you mentioned, for mental health, are not in my portfolio, I really do see my portfolio through that lens as…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
But I do take that very seriously, about CAMHS, and that's something I am looking at as well.
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
I think there's been some real progress in terms of CAMHS, and I do appreciate that we still have people who are coming to CAMHS services, and we have to remember that, people who have mental health issues, not everybody has a certain level of need and for a…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you, Sam. And it is important, and I know that, with these strategies, we have taken an all-age approach, to ensure that we have a better system that will support everyone, to promote a better integration between services. That is the aim. It does draw…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you. Since I've come into post, in the short space of time, one of the first things I did was read both of those strategies, and I was very impressed, personally, with how they were set out and written. I'd like to pay tribute to the former Minister in…
, Health and Social Care Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years
Thank you very much, and bore da. It's a pleasure to join you this morning to have this opportunity in front of the committee. The consultation on both strategies concludes on 11 June, so not long away, and the final publication date will, obviously, need to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch, Llyr. The health board has indicated it will take a period of time and reflection to consider the report's findings and the views of families and others, including Llais, as you mentioned, before drawing up its formal response. Just to say, the NHS…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you for that question, Mark. As part of the special measures intervention, Welsh Government commissioned the Royal College of Psychiatrists to undertake a review to assess the extent to which recommendations from the previous mental health reviews have…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
As part of the special measures escalation, a comprehensive programme of work has been agreed to ensure that the health board is able to make the sustained improvements required by its mental health services. The health board is very much focused on…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Control of tobacco and nicotine products
Thank you, Gareth. As a Government, we're clear that we must consider all our options to support our ambition to be a smoke-free Wales, and this includes whether we look to develop a licensing system, or if we move ahead with the implementation of the retail…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Control of tobacco and nicotine products
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. I'd like to thank Mabon ap Gwynfor, John Griffiths and Altaf Hussain for tabling this Member debate today, and for the points made about tobacco and nicotine. Members will recall the statement that the Cabinet Secretary for Health and…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Thank you very much, Laura. I really appreciate your warm words of welcome, and I look forward to working with you in an area that I know you feel very passionately about. As I said, protecting young people's mental health is a priority for us, it continues…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Diolch yn fawr, Heledd, and thank you very much for your questions. Obviously, we're in very difficult financial times, and the severe budgetary constraints that the Welsh Government is facing are very real, and I know that that pressure then is put on other…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Diolch yn fawr, James, and thank you very much, and I know this is an area, as I said, that you're very interested in and you've worked on over the last few years, in particular. I look forward to working with you on the work that you're doing on the Bill. We…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Thank you for that question, Vikki, and I appreciate your kind comments at the start. Diolch yn fawr. You're absolutely right: social prescribing is really important. It's woven into the fabric of what Welsh Government does in terms of empowering people and…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Diolch, Mabon, and thank you very much as well. I’m really looking forward to working with you in this brief, so thank you for your welcome as well. Diolch yn fawr. On your points around data and the mental health programme, we have provided £2.2 million to…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Diolch yn fawr, Gareth. Thank you very much for your kind words at the start, and I welcome you to your post as well. So, we've both come to this portfolio, and I'm sure that we'll work together on lots of issues that I am sure that we can get behind. I'm…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
We're currently consulting on our new mental health and well-being strategy, which sets out our vision for the next 10 years. Now, I want to pay tribute to the huge amount of work my predecessor, Lynne Neagle, has done in this portfolio, particularly in…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Early Years: Improving mental health in Wales
Diolch, Llywydd. I’m really pleased that my first ministerial statement is about improving mental health in Wales as we mark Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Movement: moving more for our mental health’. This week highlights…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you for your work again in this area, because it is important.
