, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sure. Thanks for that question, Lesley. So, there was a delay, which came out as a result of the consultation, which identified that there was far more work that needed doing in this area than we were able to deliver within the timescale. So, we are looking…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes, sure. Do you want to say a bit more on that, Taryn?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
I think I'd probably go back, Chair, to what I said in my opening remarks. Our policy response, not just on this but on the whole way in which we deliver children's services, is our transformation programme, and this will be central to that, because as I…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes, and the reporting data therefore is important, because it is important to identify whether we are talking about the number of incidents or the number of children, and I think that's where the data is important. But it is reviewed and updated every year…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes, and children do go missing for all sorts of reasons in all sorts of circumstances. What we do know, of course, is that children who are care experienced are far more likely to be reported as missing than other children. But, Taryn, do you want to deal…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you, Chair. I’ll start by answering that question, but before I answer the specifics of the question, particularly around data collection, I think it’s probably important to set the Government’s policy context around children’s services, because the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sorry, Chair, we do have another official with us as well. Sorry, Jane.
, Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Eluned Morgan.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
No, I don't think so.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Please do, yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I meet regularly with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, as you would imagine. She’s fully well aware of the provisions of this Bill and the provisions as they apply to continuing healthcare. But, as I say, within this Bill, there are no policy…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I’m sorry to come back to this again, Sam, but that’s not within the parameters of the Bill. In relation to CHC, the Bill is about enabling access to direct payments; you’re talking about policy areas of continuing healthcare that don’t fall within the remit…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I absolutely understand the point that’s being made, but I keep coming back to what the Bill is doing is simply saying, 'If you have continuing healthcare needs, you can access a direct payment for those needs.’ That’s the only provision of the Bill, it’s not…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Well, again, Joyce, I wish I could, but that sits with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, I’m afraid, and isn’t part of the provisions of the Bill. But, again, I’m more than happy to speak to my colleague the Cabinet Secretary for Health and…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Yes, so I'm aware of that review, but that sits within the remit of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care—continuing healthcare does; it doesn't sit within—. That review and what is happening with that review, and even the outcomes of that review…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
So, we talked about advocacy a little earlier, didn't we, and the code of practice for advocacy is under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act and what that talks about—. This is where the legal speak comes in, so I may be turning to Anthony again in…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Yes.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Altaf. I think, as Anthony was saying, it's about assessing what the person's need is. So, it's not just about trying to create a balance between health and social care, it's about what the need is of that individual: do they have a social care…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Yes, please do.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
There isn’t a simple answer to that, Joyce, as you probably would guess, because what’s at the root of this is what is the individual’s need. So, if the individual has a health need, as opposed to a social care need, they will have been assessed as requiring…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Well, I just need to reiterate and be very clear that all the Bill is doing is giving people with a continuing healthcare need the opportunity to have a direct payment for the provision of that continuing healthcare need; that is all it is doing. So, people…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Altaf, and as I said in response to the question from John Griffiths: that’s not within the scope of the Bill, but we are aware of the inconsistencies and the concerns that have been raised, and I think this is something that we have to address…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Yes, so, you're talking about people living in rural areas not having access to personal assistants. Again, we are aware and alert to that as being a particular difficulty, as it is for those in receipt of direct payments for social care, so the difficulty is…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, John. I think what I would say—. I mean, we are aware of those calls for consistency of pay rates for personal assistants and care workers, which I’m well aware does vary across Wales, and varies between health and social care. But what I would say…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Do you want to take that?
