, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Finally from me, a question about regional partnership boards: should they be on a statutory footing? And do you have a view on the impact of regional accountability to the regional partnership boards, and is it helping?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Of course, developing the sites, you have to go through the planning system, which doesn't treat the need for dementia care as a part of the planning process, does it? It's based on planning rules rather than community need.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Yes, I think that the local market often depends on where relatives live rather than where the person lived before they move into a home. Talking about homes and home infrastructure, I can only talk about Swansea—Swansea East in particular—where we've had a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
I would agree with all of that. Moving on to regional commissioning, we've got regional partnership boards; they're meant to be developing regional strategies that help partners shape the care home market. Do you think that's working?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Can I just ask you to expand on part of the answer you gave, on the impact on service users and their families when the public sector partners don't agree?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Diolch. Can public sector funding approaches be simplified?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Seconded.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
I'm talking about the whole range of performance, not just quality, but how happy the residents are, how well they work with families, how good they are at discharging people from the care homes, after a certain period of time, into more suitable domiciliary…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Yes. It's very straightforward: are you happy with the performance information that you're receiving from the care home service and are there good arrangements with independent care providers to supply the necessary performance information?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
I actually agree with you. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Thank you for that answer. You bring up something I say fairly regularly. Too often we use the term 'for health, see hospitals'. If you follow any of our health questions and social services questions in the Senedd, there's more about hospitals and hospital…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Are the regional partners working effectively and intervening earlier to reduce the demand for care home placements? Sometimes, people end up in a care home because they've reached a stage where they're unable to look after themselves at home. If, however…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Can I come back to what you said there about the majority of them being small? I think you're absolutely right—the majority are. But the majority of places—again, I can only talk about Swansea—are in the larger ones. So, you have a lot of small ones, but you…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Okay. Thank you. And, again, my knowledge is very much in a different area to where both of you come from, so could you tell me if it's normal across Wales? What we've seen in care homes in Swansea is the loss of a lot of relatively small ones and the growth…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Moving on to another area, regional commissioning, I heard what you said earlier, Dave. But the reason for the regional partnership boards being developed was so that regional strategies could be developed that shaped the care home market to provide the range…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Okay. And just moving on to the most important people, the users and their families, and whether disagreements on commissioning and placements by the public sector partners, by which I probably mean health and social services in the main, cause any problems.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Twenty years ago, when the first idea of pooled funds came in—and I was on both the health board and leader of the council at the time—the problem was at that stage is that health thought, 'We've got some social services money to spend', and social services…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Care Home Commissioning for Older People: Evidence Session 3
Can I continue with pooled funding? The first question is: could better use of pooled funding arrangements for older people's care commissioning be made?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Yes, I'm very much aware. The SA1 development in Swansea has been a huge success, not just the University of Wales Trinity St David and housing, but also a number of high-technology, mainly start-up companies that have developed around the university. Like…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
6. Will the Minister provide an update on the SA1 development in Swansea? OQ57991
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Can I just say how very pleased I am, and I won't take up any more time?
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
I had finished, but my interest has been brought in here, because also within local authorities there are huge variations in wealth. Although Cardiff is in east Wales, the people living in Ely do not see themselves being wealthier than the people in my…
, Finance Committee
Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
Okay. And finally from me, the system is going to use the CRF index, Welsh indices of multiple deprivation, and population. Do you think that's the right way of doing it, or do you think there's a better way?
