Rebecca Evans: Formally.
Rebecca Evans: Yes, move.
Rebecca Evans: Move.
Rebecca Evans: Thank you. The amendments in this group are all technical in nature and make minor changes to aid understanding of the provisions. They reflect changes made at Stage 2 to name the enforcement authorities for the smoke-free-premises provisions on the face of the Bill, rather than designating them in regulations as initially planned. None of the amendments make a substantive change to the...
Rebecca Evans: Formally.
Rebecca Evans: Formally.
Rebecca Evans: Yes, move.
Rebecca Evans: I formally move.
Rebecca Evans: Formally move.
Rebecca Evans: I thank Members for their support for these measures within the Bill. I would just take this opportunity to reiterate the assurances that I did give at Stage 2 regarding appropriate guidance being issued.
Rebecca Evans: Yes, formally.
Rebecca Evans: Thank you, Presiding Officer. The Bill, as it currently stands, would, for the very first time, make three outdoor areas smoke free. These are: school grounds, hospital grounds and public playgrounds. I've been pleased to see the broad support for this significant step that has been clear throughout the scrutiny process. During Stage 1 consideration of the Bill, a number of suggestions were...
Rebecca Evans: Thank you, Presiding Officer. Tackling obesity is a major challenge to all Governments in the developed world. It requires joint action from a wide range of organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors, as well as from individuals themselves. I am grateful to Rhun ap Iorwerth for bringing forward proposals for a national obesity strategy at Stage 2 of the Bill’s...
Rebecca Evans: It’s formally moved.
Rebecca Evans: I thank you for those questions. I’ll begin on the point that you made about access teams. Access teams are really important in terms of the gateway to all that the Act can offer individuals, especially through the assessment for all care and support needs, and so on. I’m aware that various different organisations have expressed concern that perhaps the access groups aren’t fully aware...
Rebecca Evans: Thank you very much for those questions, and I’ll deal with the last issues you raised first, in terms of what we’re doing to ensure that social care in Wales is safe, and that has to be absolutely the starting point in terms of ensuring that care is safe. CSSIW does a series of inspections and undertakings in all care settings across Wales, and they do a very good job in terms of...
Rebecca Evans: Thank you very much for those questions, and I’ll start on safeguarding. Carl Sargeant and I work really closely on all aspects where our portfolios do have crossover, and there are quite a few, particularly with regard to the Act. But on safeguarding particularly, I most recently met with Carl Sargeant last week to talk about safeguarding, particularly, actually, within the sporting field....
Rebecca Evans: Thank you for those questions. I’ll start by recognising, as you did, the great, important strides that we’ve made in terms of improving adoption services in Wales. Also, just to update Members, the National Adoption Service, as one of its priorities, is seeking improvements in life story work and adoption support as well, because we know that those are things that are really important...
Rebecca Evans: I thank you for those questions. I’m very familiar with the Track the Act campaign from Carers Wales, and I actually really welcome the input and the constructive challenge that they are providing us, and the positive engagement of the third and voluntary sector in the whole co-productive approach that we have through the social services and well-being Act, working in partnership with us...
Rebecca Evans: Thank you. It’s now a year since the landmark Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 came into force and we are seeing the way care is being delivered on the ground being transformed to meet the needs of the individual. People have a stronger voice in improving their well-being and deciding what support they need to help them live independently. Care is being co-ordinated with the...
