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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you. To help manage the rest of this session, there's five more Members that want to lead on sections, and if we finish at 12:30, that leaves about five minutes per session block, just to help to manage time. Rhun ap Iorwerth.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thanks, Sarah. Jack Sargeant, did you want to come in on this point?
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you. Sarah, have you finished your set of questions?
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
[Inaudible.] Are you sure? Thank you. Sarah Murphy.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Those answers are good answers—the short ones. There we are. [Laughter.] Joyce Watson.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Well, one of you is fine because of time.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
That's clear and helpful, thank you. I appreciate both of your answers on that. Rhianon Passmore.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Right, that's clear.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
No, no, thank you. I apologise in advance for asking you to be brief, because I don't want you to be brief at the same time. Dr Tarrant.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Dr Tarrant. I'm just conscious of time, by the way, so—
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Is that good or bad? Because sometimes, if a member of the public is looking for guidance, they want it condensed and easy to understand. I'm playing devil's advocate.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
On direct payments, right.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
So, the Welsh guidance is half the English guidance.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you, both. It might be that some Members want to dig in to some of what you said a bit further later in the session. Professor Clements, in your paper you highlight the lack of detail in the guidance for the Act. I suppose the question from me there…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Mark.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr iawn. The first set of questions are from Mark Isherwood.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you, both, for being with us, Professor Clements and Dr Tarrant this morning; we really appreciate your time. I should say at the beginning of the session that we've got an hour and a quarter, but we know from the last session that…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Thank you. Diolch yn fawr.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 2
Croeso, bawb, welcome back to this joint committee this morning. I move to item 3, and this is with regard to the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, and we have our second panel of today, and our two witnesses before us. I'd be…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Diolch yn fawr iawn. We'll take a short break, ready to start again at 11:15.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
You also agreed that we could write to you on some points as well, so we're grateful for that. We'll send you a copy of the Record of Proceedings, and if you think you want to add something to that, then we'd obviously welcome that as well. Thank you very…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Can I thank you, Professor Llewellyn and Professor Verity, for your time this morning? Congratulations—you've managed to follow what I asked, to be brief, when at the same time we've been asking questions from Members that demanded longer answers. But you've…
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Thank you. The last question of the day is from the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee, Mark Isherwood.
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Is there anything else you’d like to say that’s perhaps not been drawn out through questions today?
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Panel 1
Natasha Asghar.
