7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes, I think we need to always review what we're actually providing. As I say, I think the childcare offer, in what its aim was, has been very successful. The parents are very pleased with the offer. Many of them have said, I think—. Well, we've actually got…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes, thank you, Siân, for making those points. Now, the childcare offer was originally developed as a programme of support for working parents, and you have to work a certain number of hours before you are eligible to access the childcare offer. The impetus…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes, I would agree that we need to build on the childcare sector. We would like to see the childcare sector expand, and that is obviously something that we are looking at.
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
The situation has improved. It is much better than we originally thought, and the percentage of businesses that have gone bust is fairly small. So, we're very near to what we were originally. However, there is one sector that has been more affected than…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you very much, Siân, for that question. Yes, we are doing all we possibly can to make sure that parents in Wales are aware of the change in the law. We've had, as you said, extensive advertising on tv and radio, and we've had digital advertising and…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you very much, Lynne, and thank you, Ken, for the question. You asked whether we were addressing the issue with sufficient urgency and you referred to the review that commenced in February. This was delayed from 2020 because of COVID-19. There is going…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
We are very concerned about children leaving care in Wales because we have the responsibility for them because they've been in our care, and we want them to have the same opportunities as any other child would have. So, we are working with our partners to…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you, Buffy, for that question. There was a great deal of concern during the pandemic that the safeguarding numbers, the number of children referred, were low, were going down, and we were very concerned about that because of the situation of the…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you very much, Buffy, for that very important question. The high numbers of children who are in care in Wales have been a huge issue for us. We have been making a concerted strategy to try to bring down those numbers. We've been working with the local…
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Right. I'm sorry, I missed a bit of that question. Could you just repeat that, Buffy, please?
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
If I can get unmuted—.
7 Hydref 2021 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes.
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you.
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
I think it's absolutely the right step. It's so important that social care workers and the work of the social care sector is acknowledged, and by having this post—it's something that the sector asked for. We were asked by so many people, 'Why don't you have a…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
I'm sure that Rhun will be pleased to hear that we had an event on 13 July with citizen, carer and third sector representatives who were on the regional partnership boards, and that was in response to concerns that the board members weren't being properly…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes, thank you very much, Rhun. First of all, I just want to say that this role, the chief social care officer role, and the appointment itself have been very well received by the sector—welcomed both in terms of the role, because many people had asked us to…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes. Just to say that the inter-ministerial group on paying for social care will be meeting on 7 October, you'll be pleased to hear, Mike. Obviously this group did a lot of work in the previous term, and we'll be looking at how we take that forward in the…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
I think maybe Albert could help us with that.
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
We're very happy to consider any proposals that will help carers, and we are actually in dialogue with the local authorities, and with the health boards, to look at all options that can possibly help unpaid carers. The Minister said how we are in weekly…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you, Jack, very much. Unpaid carers are a very important part of our caring service, and we want to do as a Government all we possibly can to support them. Local authorities and health boards are working together to consider new ways of working and…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes. Thank you very much, Joyce, for that very important topical question. I'm sure that you probably heard on the news this morning about the letter that the sector in England have sent to the health Secretary there about the concern of the shortage of…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Yes, certainly. As I say, I've said where the longer term plans will be made, in the RPBs, but we can certainly come back to you about the plans in the health boards. But, obviously, long COVID is a high priority.
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Long COVID is obviously bound to have an effect on the social care service, and it's going to create more demand for the ongoing services. There will be more demand for domiciliary care, which we know is already under great pressure, and also reablement and…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you. Just to go back to your first comment, in all our guidance throughout the pandemic, we have always said that there are exceptional circumstances where visitors can go in and see their loved ones, and that has been the situation for the whole of the…
23 Medi 2021 , Health and Social Care Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyffredinol gyda'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a’r Dirprwy Weinidog Iechyd Meddwl a Llesiant
Thank you very much. Making decisions about visits to care homes has been one of the most difficult things that the Government has had to do, because it is balancing the different elements, as the Minister has said. But I want to be quite clear, and I know…
