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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Dave?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, back to you, Russell. Sorry.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
I think when you were in front of us last time, Dave, I think you said something around £12.55 an hour, so obviously, it shows the impact on inflation on that.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Dave?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
And then in social services?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Thanks.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, everybody's working on a plan, but they're not sharing it with the people who are—
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
And have you had sight of it?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, is there a long-term workforce plan?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Russell.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Are you done, or—?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Just on that basis, and on what Dave was saying—I know a little bit about Caerphilly, obviously, where Dave's based—from the budget that you've got, part of the problem or the issue that we're tackling is that it's qualitative and quantitative. So, you've got…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, are we are at crisis point?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay. Thanks. Okay, I'll move on to Rhianon now, if I can.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Moving on to social care then, on the back of what you were just saying, ADSS, in your written evidence, you say 'very difficult choices' will have to be made about continued service provision, and the allocations are 'not going to put social care on a path…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
What's your assessment of the Welsh Government's draft budget for 2023-24, which allocates funding increases for health and social care as well as local government? To what extent, in your fields, will that protect front-line services?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Okay. Great. I know Rhianon wanted to come in, but I'm conscious of time, so I'm going to move on, and we'll do that in a bit.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
And then, maybe bringing in colleagues in social care, what about that link between the two, because one doesn't work without the other, and then it becomes that link between who funds what, especially getting people out of hospital into a social care…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, is it clear from the budget, and is it transparent from the budget that you've seen from the Minister and, effectively, from the Government, that there is a floor in the budget that says you can see a direct line to that, or is there some opaqueness in…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
From the Cwm Taf view, or from your view?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Mike.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Russ.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
So, do you think that the relative priorities—? Are they getting it right? Or is it—?
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Thank you. Coming back to you, Darren, last week the Minister for Health and Social Services said to the Health and Social Care Committee—and Russ was there—that the NHS has to focus far more clearly on a smaller number of points, and she hoped you would…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 6
Anything to add, Dave?
