, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, Buffy, for that question. As you know, I've not been in post long, but I'm sure you can imagine that lots of people have already told me about this. What I would say is that I am aware, from my officials as well, that the sector, we know, is…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Absolutely. It's really important, the work that Flying Start does, and we know how well Flying Start works. I think it is important to remember the reasons why we have Flying Start and the work that it does. It is an intervention, it is a geographical…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you, and I think Naomi makes some really important points, and I'd be really keen to hear more from her on this. For me, integration, co-location are focal points. If we can join up services in the best way, that is really important to support the child…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Yes, absolutely. I think it's fair to say it's a complex picture, generally, and again, it's very early days for me, so understanding some of those issues and perhaps also listening—. It's important to me to go out, as you will know, go out and about, and to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Absolutely. So, our ambition is for all schools to be community focused. My officials and education officials have really strong working relationships, as I'm sure you can imagine, and they work hand in glove when considering the benefits of childcare capital…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Diolch, Sioned. Obviously, it’s early days still for me yet. I’m still sort of coming to grips with the whole portfolio, but obviously that would be one of the discussions that I would have with the Cabinet Secretary. As I said, there are lots of…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
I actually read the Bevan Foundation paper that was presented to the committee, and I’ve asked my officials to look at how we might be clearer for parents and carers, ensuring that they can access the provision they’re entitled to in the most straightforward…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Absolutely. I had heard the committee's recommendation previously. Obviously, that's not something for me, but what I can do is to assure the committee that I feel very strongly about delivering and being responsible for the early years, and I will be doing…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. First of all, I'd just like to say that I'm very pleased to be here. I know the interest the committee has taken in this particular area over a number of years now, and the work that you're doing in that. I'm really pleased to be leading…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you very much. Diolch, Cadeirydd. Perhaps my officials could introduce themselves.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch. Thank you very much for that question, Rhianon, and for your really kind words of welcome—very much appreciated. As you said, cognitive behavioural therapy has been a very positive development in this area. The aim of providing access to online CBT is…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch. We'll continue to provide sustained funding to Aneurin Bevan University Health Board for the provision of mental health services in response to local needs. This includes the provision of online support. We also fund online and telephone-based mental…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch. Thank you very much for that question, Altaf. Social care sits with my colleague Dawn Bowden, so, certainly, I'll happily discuss these issues with Dawn, and I'm sure she'll get in touch with you as well.FootnoteLink
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch, Hefin. I'd like to thank Hefin for raising this important issue and for highlighting his constituents' case. As Hefin has said, I am aware that he has met with campaigners from the Stolen Lives campaign. I'd also like to take this opportunity to pay…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Diolch. The Welsh Government is committed to ensuring that, wherever possible, people with learning disabilities are cared for at home rather than in a hospital. It is for health boards and local authorities to determine how people are best cared for based on…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Yesterday Marshfield and District Women's Institute in my constituency hosted a birthday party to celebrate their centenary, a very impressive milestone. Life for women in Wales was very different when this group was established in 1924. The WI has evolved as…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Weinidog. Neurodivergent young people, those who are autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic and have other forms of neurodivergence, are at particular risk of youth homelessness. Research has shown that when neurodivergent young people become homeless…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
6. What is the Welsh Government doing to tackle youth homelessness? OQ60874
, Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Vaughan Gething.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
We'll now move on to the next item, which is papers to note. We have a number of papers to note; I think there are 13 papers to note. Are Members content to note those together? I see you are. As we agreed in the previous motion, we'll now move into our…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
Brilliant. Okay. Well, thank you very much. That's the end of the evidence session today. We really appreciate you coming in and we're sure you'll follow our work, as we follow yours, very closely over the coming weeks and months. If we do have any other…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
Absolutely. And just finally from me, we expect a new social care Bill to be introduced in the Senedd in the near future, and, in this proposed legislation, that's going to include additional responsibilities for Social Care Wales in terms of extending your…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
Brilliant. Thank you. Thanks, Laura. And finally, questions from Heledd Fychan. Heledd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
Yes, thank you. We'll move on to questions from Laura Jones now. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny session with Social Care Wales
Oh, sorry, Sarah.
