10 July 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with representatives of local health boards
How well is the NHS coping with the current level of continuing healthcare demand that it faces? Would you describe it as being a steady state? How long do people have to wait to have their assessments completed and the service provided?
10 July 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
I have one, very tiny question, but, just to say, I've exercised retrospective approval powers as a Minister in the Welsh Government, and I have exercised them by saying to a local authority, ‘I don’t agree that that young child should be kept in secure…
10 July 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
I want to go on to the issue of ministerial decision making here, because this is not a new thing in our system. If a child is placed in secure accommodation under certain circumstances, it can only happen with a Minister’s agreement, and the Minister has…
10 July 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with organisations supporting children in care
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to make sure, first of all, I've understood what the panel are saying to us. The Bill sets out a time frame for transition from the current system to the future system. It has a series of flexibilities inside it to allow local…
10 July 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with young people from Voices from Care
Thank you, Chair. So, just a quick and very basic question from me about the Bill that's in front of the committee. At the moment, private companies are providing services for care partners, and they can make profit from the work that they do. In the future…
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 9
Thank you very much.
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 9
I think that is exactly where some of us—I won't speak for anybody else—would be. If section 64 goes ahead, the standards committee has no role. If section 64 does not go ahead, then that whole issue should become part of our recall considerations. I…
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 9
Yes, fine, I think that's more or less consistent with what I think I described, it's just that you had to come to—. Somewhere, a decision has to be made that that trigger, that threshold, has been breached. I think you prefer it just to be in the hands of…
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 9
Thank you, Chair. I've got three questions; I'm going to try to rattle through them fairly quickly. Jane, when Natasha asked you to set out your ideal process, you echoed the two-stage process that is there for Westminster recall. But we've heard quite a lot…
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 8
Chair, thank you. That was my only question.
1 July 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence Session 8
Thank you, Chair. Thank you, commissioner. We heard evidence from you some weeks ago in which you set out your reservations about a potential recall mechanism at the Senedd, and you told us today that your preferred approach to dealing with the sort of…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
The last point from me, Chair, and maybe this is more for colleagues to come back to towards the end of the session. Local authorities have had 20 years or more of experience now of direct payments. Health boards are going to be taking this on for the very…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you, Chair. So, we heard from some earlier witnesses that there may be some people who are confident in their current relationship with their local authority, know the package of care for which they've taken responsibility and who may be nervous about…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Welcome, of course, to everybody on the panel this afternoon, and a special welcome to Councillor Andrew Morgan; it's great to have the leader of the WLGA with us for this important part of the Bill. I think, maybe, my first question is one for Councillor…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : direct payments for healthcare - evidence session with ADSS Cymru and the WLGA
Thank you very much, Chair. Just to apologise about the fact that I'll have to leave the screen in about 20 minutes and leave the meeting at 2.30 p.m.
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
I just wanted to point out that there is a precedent for this, that it isn't introducing something wholly new. Whenever a local authority seeks to place a child below a certain age in secure accommodation, that decision has to have the approval of a Minister…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
I'll very briefly take on those and then I'll go on to my other question, Chair, if I could. Sally, I wish we could spend all afternoon, because it really would be worth it. The fact is that in Wales we take more children away from their families per 100,000…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill : provision of social care services to children - evidence session with ADSS Cymru
Thank you, Chair. I want to go after the wider questions with regard to the context of the Bill, and Sally has explained already that the Bill won't be able to succeed without seeing the wider context, and we've heard some of the things that are in that…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Yes, Chair. Thank you. So, my final point. To go back to the point that Colin made about the voice and views of children, to remind committee colleagues that the genesis of this policy was a report by the children's commissioner, Professor Sally Holland…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Thank you, Chair. So, the Competition and Markets Authority say that the standard profit take per child per week in the residential private market is over £900 a week. Where does that profit go and is it defensible that public money leaks out of the system at…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with private and independent providers and representative bodies
Thank you, Chair. The Children's Homes Association say in their evidence to us that the Welsh Government hasn't learned the lessons of the Competition and Markets Authority reports as to how to make the market in the care of looked-after children work better…
27 June 2024 , Health and Social Care Committee
Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: provision of social care services to children - evidence session with not-for-profit providers
Okay, Chair. Thank you. First of all, to say that I take very seriously all the points we've heard this morning about the need to plan properly for transition. I think we've heard some very important, practical issues that we need to make sure are known by…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
One of the things that is troubling me—and I'll ask it to Jennifer, in a way—is trust in politics is particularly eroded amongst some parts of the population whose views some of us may not like or share, including those people who I think you may have been…
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Do you mind if I just have one very last point? Sorry, I've had far too much.
24 June 2024 , Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 7
Just to make it clear, that is not what we're proposing. When this committee will set a series of tests, the Senedd will have decided that somebody has failed that test. It's not saying to people, 'This person may have told you something untrue or not'; we…
