, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I understand what you're saying. As you say, the portfolio is very wide and there are lots of things in the portfolio that require attention. A lot of what is in my portfolio, and I'm sure we'll come on to that at some point this afternoon, around the whole…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I think the Bill really is pivotal for our broader transformation vision on children's services. You'll recall that I made a statement in the Senedd earlier this week on the progress on our vision for transforming children's services, our programme for the…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I'm Dawn Bowden, Minister for Social Care.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
My pleasure.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Again, thank you for that important point, Altaf, and of course we are moving across a whole range of issues in social care to regularise and standardise practices right the way across social services, and that includes our care homes and the commissioning of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you, Altaf, for that very important question and, of course, as you say, we won’t be seeing the outcome of the COVID inquiry for some considerable time yet, or whether there will be any specific recommendations around that, but what I can assure you of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Thank you, Altaf, for that question. You're quite right, the role of Llais now has extended to social care. Of course, we do recognise them in their previous incarnation of the community health councils, and when they were set up under the recent legislation…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
Oh, you're not anymore. Okay. So, you won't be exploring this with me on Thursday. Okay. Well, I won't go through the removing the profit aspects because, as you say, that is well rehearsed; we're not going to agree on that, but I do understand the points…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
I think you are also on the health committee, Gareth, so we'll be exploring this—
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
Thank you, Joyce Watson, for those comments, and I think that's a very important point that you make. Inspection is absolutely critical to the development of these services. We have a very good inspectorate in Wales. We have Care Inspectorate Wales at the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
Diolch, Mabon. Thank you for those comments. We are clearly well and truly in the middle of a general election now, aren't we, so most of those comments were directed at UK Labour, rather than at Welsh Labour, in terms of what I as a Welsh Minister can do and…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
Thank you, Altaf. Firstly, can I thank you very much for those comments? I welcome the opportunity to work with you. I think that there is largely consensus around what we're trying to achieve here. This is about trying to reduce the number of children who we…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill with its core provision to eliminate private profit from children’s care will, if passed, meet another of our programme for government commitments to help transform children’s care. However, as I explained in my last…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Transforming Children's Services
Diolch, Llywydd. Just before recess, I had the very real privilege of introducing the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill to this Senedd as one of my first acts as the Minister for Social Care. During the statement, there were many questions from Members…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Joyce. I think it is absolutely right to say and to put on record that the vast majority of people that work in for-profit organisations and are delivering care for these children are doing that for the right reasons, and some of them are some of…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
You can talk to me afterwards, Julie, about your final point. Thank you, and again, I absolutely agree. The one thing that has struck me when I have been, over the last few weeks, talking to care-experienced children, whether they are children who have…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Sioned, for those comments. You're absolutely right about that structural prejudice of young mothers, particularly mothers who have been in care themselves, and the predisposition to assume that, because the mother has been in care, that's the best…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Thank you for those comments, Jenny. I know I'm in danger of repeating some of this, but I'm very clear that we have worked very, very closely with local authorities about this. This isn't something we're just dropping on them now. We've been working with…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Jane, for those comments, and I absolutely agree with everything you're saying. We are spending a huge amount of money on residential children’s services. If I tell you that, in 2017, we were spending £65 million on children’s residential services…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Thank you for those points, Jack. And no, it doesn’t relate directly to this Bill, but the broad principles do, and I think that that’s important, because, more broadly, what we’re doing is we’re taking forward the programme of work that was set out by the…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Diolch yn fawr, Mabon, and, again, thank you for your support for the Bill. It is a joint ambition. It has been a joint ambition of both Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru, and I'm very pleased that we've got to this point now and, as I say, I'm very grateful for…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Diolch yn fawr, and thank you for those comments, Altaf, and I welcome very much your general support for the Bill. We've set out very clearly what we're looking to achieve in this Bill, because we just don't believe—. Our starting point is that we don't…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Dirprwy Lywydd, the second main provision in the Bill relates to the provision of NHS continuing healthcare. It seeks to amend the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 to allow the Welsh Ministers to make direct payments to individuals who, having been…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Yesterday, I laid the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill before the Senedd. Can I place on record my thanks to both my predecessor, Julie Morgan, and to the former designated Member from Plaid Cymru, Siân Gwenllian, for the work that…
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Statement by the Minister for Social Care: Our vision for foster care in Wales
Thank you, Jane Dodds, for that. Just on that very specific question, I'm certainly happy to look at that. We are looking at the whole process of payment for foster carers. We are looking at the harmonisation of formal foster carers with kinship carers…
