1 March 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Children and Young People’s Plan
I look forward to working with you all to deliver the children and young people's plan and to achieve our ambition to make Wales a wonderful place to grow up, live and work. Thank you.
1 March 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Children and Young People’s Plan
I am delighted, on this important day, to be announcing the publication of the children and young people’s plan, which sets out our ambition for children and young people in Wales, both now and in the future. In Wales, we want the best for our children—all of…
1 March 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Children and Young People’s Plan
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. Today is an important day in the history of Wales, a day when we celebrate this incredible nation and show how excellent it is to grow up, live and work in Wales.
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes, it's absolutely essential that we have that quality social care, and, as we all know, social care has been under huge pressure, and we are doing all we possibly can to boost the social care service. I announced yesterday ways we were working towards…
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Yes, I thank Peter Fox for that question, and I am concerned to hear about what happened to his constituent and the constituent's husband. It is, really, a lot of what we have been talking about this afternoon—how we get better co-ordination and better…
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. Discharge service guidance is in place to manage the flow of patients, particularly during the pandemic. We recently updated this guidance, taking on board the latest and more positive position with regard to COVID, in order to continue to provide…
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
We are developing our services' data and we are analysing why those over 1,000 people are detained in hospital when they shouldn't be there. In the vast majority, the reason for it is because they haven't got the help from the social care services, but there…
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Gareth Davies highlights a crucial point. There is no way that the health service will flourish unless the social care system is operating to its maximum. The reason why over 1,000 people who are medically fit to be discharged are not able to be discharged…
16 February 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
I thank Gareth Davies for that question. The integration of health and social care is something that we are working very hard to reach. Our regional partnership boards are where we are putting this into practice, where we have the health authorities and the…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Thank you, Darren Millar, for welcoming this payment as a step in the right direction. I welcome his support. Yes, senior care staff and managers will receive the additional payment, and I think that I want to repeat, really, that our purpose is to try to…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Thank you, Mike, very much, and thank you for your welcome for these proposals. I absolutely agree that everyone in Wales needs to be paid the real living wage, but what we're tackling here are the people who directly deliver social care. And those who…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Thank you very much, James, for welcoming the announcement and the comments that you've made. I think it's absolutely vital that we do all we can to attract more people into the system. I'm aware that care packages are being given back due to staff shortages…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Diolch, and thank you very much for those very positive comments and your welcome for this as a step towards the—a step in the right direction, shall we say? I absolutely support the comments that the Member has made. We do want to reach parity of pay and…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Well, I thank Gareth Davies for those remarks, and I think I'm rather amazed at his attitude towards this announcement. This is certainly a first step towards improving the lot of social care workers, and it has been widely welcomed, as has the £1,000…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
In December, I announced we would pay the real living wage of £9.90 per hour to registered social care workers in care homes and domiciliary care, in both adults' and children’s services, and to personal assistants funded through direct payments. Focusing on…
15 February 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers
Diolch. I'm very pleased to be able to update Members of the Senedd on the tremendous progress we've made towards paying social care workers in Wales the real living wage, one of our key priorities in the programme for government. In June I made a statement…
2 February 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
I had a meeting, actually, yesterday, with the ACEs team, where they described the individual research that they were doing, and it seemed to me that they were measuring in that research what the impact of ACEs was and what progress it was making. So, I think…
2 February 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Yes, certainly.
2 February 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Diolch. Welsh Ministers are committed to protecting and supporting the health and well-being of all children and young people in Wales. Wales has led the way on tackling adverse childhood experiences. Public Health Wales's findings about their prevalence and…
2 February 2022 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Adverse childhood experiences
Formally.
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much, Mabon, for that question, and, obviously, this is of great importance to your constituent. I think the best way of dealing with the individual situation is perhaps if you write in about that situation. We will take it up to look at the…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. The Welsh Government has already committed to providing the recommended personal protective equipment to social care workers, free of charge, until the end of the pandemic. This is managed through regular deliveries to local authorities for their…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you very much, Natasha, for that question, and thank you very much for the work that you've been doing to raise the profile of ADHD. I think it's been well publicised, and thank you for that. We know how important it is to concentrate on assessment and…
19 January 2022 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Thank you. It is vital that all children and adults with a neurodevelopmental condition, including those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, can access the services that they need. A demand and capacity review of all neurodevelopmental services…
13 January 2022 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being
I think you've mainly covered it, but I think the important thing is that we want to strengthen the RPBs and make sure that integration really works. We have got a lot of experience now of the previous projects, so that we have learnt from the two different…
