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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you. It's quite a shift in position for both organisations, but you're satisfied that that's going to be okay.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you. Gillian, do you want to respond as well?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you, Sue. Just one more quick question from me before I bring others in, and perhaps a brief response to this question. The Bill as drafted does not include the mandatory reporting duty for specific individuals to report a child at risk. I know both…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Sue, just to be really clear on this, we're aware of not just very recent challenges in terms of recruitment and retention, but it's been going on for quite a long time, to say the least. The Bill appears to put even more pressure on that need for recruitment…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Before I bring Margaret in, I think it's fair to bring Sue in first to answer these specific points around the vacancy numbers and the potential barrier of that to delivering this Bill. But also, Sue, perhaps you could expand on some of the additional…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Thank you for that response. We're aware that a 2022 report from Social Care Wales showed that there were 639 vacancies for children's social worker roles at the moment, and that around 17 per cent of social care workers in children's services are agency…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with Care Inspectorate Wales and Social Care Wales
Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to our meeting of the Health and Social Care Committee. We're on agenda item 6 now, which is our continued evidence gathering on the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill. We have an evidence session with Care Inspectorate…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay, thank you very much. Thank you for your time, it's very much appreciated, especially in this turbulent time. We're going to take a break, committee, for 10 minutes, whilst we prepare for our next evidence session in a few moments. Thanks very much.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you for that further response. We're going to draw our time to a close. I just want to double-check, Minister, if there's anything else that you wanted to just share or pick up on that you may have missed off in terms of the questions we've asked.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
And if I may, Minister, just to go back directly to Anthony on that point there, we heard from health board representatives and others, and local authorities, actually, as well, willing to share knowledge and skills—those health boards acknowledging that they…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay. I’m sure that you appreciate the impact the Bill will have on those health boards, whether that sits with a different Cabinet Secretary or Minister or not. So, what conversations, therefore, are you having with the Cabinet Secretary to ensure that the…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
I understand that. Okay, thank you. We'll look forward to that further detail as it comes through. I'm conscious we are getting close to the end of our time together. There are a couple more questions from my side, Minister, before we do, but I just want to…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks, Minister. I guess the point is understanding where those things interact and the potential impact of the Bill on the future of that.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thanks, Minister. Joyce Watson.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Sorry, Joyce, before you come back further on that point, Altaf Hussain had his hand up to speak to—
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay, thank you. Joyce Watson.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Altaf. Before I bring Joyce Watson in, I just want to be clear on something, Minister. So, I accept your point that some of the questions that have been raised are not necessarily within the scope of the Bill, but I’m sure you’d accept that the…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much. Altaf Hussain.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister. John, anything further from your side?
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Okay, thank you. John.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
John.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Joyce Watson, for those further questions. We’re going to just move the direction of the questioning on the Bill slightly, onto the direct payments provision elements of the Bill, and I'd like to bring in John Griffiths to…
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Yes, no problem. Joyce.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Thank you very much, Mabon. Mark.
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Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: evidence session with the Minister for Social Care
Just on that risk register, of course, there are all sorts of ratings. So this particular risk is a red risk—is that what you're saying—in terms of its RAG status.
