First Minister, I hope I can extend somewhat less barbed good wishes to you and your Government. I think it’s in all our interests that this Government works as effectively as possible, and I look forward to supporting much of what you do. There will be many differences and I shall be most vigorous in pursuing those.

Can I especially welcome Kirsty Williams’s appointment to the Cabinet? I think this is a really good development for Welsh politics. We need to stretch the model of how we do politics in this Chamber. I don’t think many journalists were holding the front page to run a headline, ‘Shock—Liberal Democrats join with Labour in an administration’. I’ve always found Kirsty’s comments here thoughtful, relevant and clear, and, indeed, in the fourth Assembly, I think she had the role somewhat of inquisitor in chief—a role I hope you do now continue, albeit in the secrecy of the Cabinet proceedings, of course.

I welcome the fact that the interests of children have been identified as a distinct ministerial responsibility and I look forward to working with Carl Sargeant in whatever way possible to raise issues of great concern to me, particularly about looked-after children. First Minister, this week we’ve seen disturbing evidence of discriminatory action being taken by the criminal justice system, albeit inadvertently often, against looked-after children, and I hope you and your colleagues will take careful note of the Prison Reform Trust’s review.

More positively, we heard last week that the Prime Minister has formed a Cabinet sub-committee on young people in care and it is charged with drawing up cross-departmental agreements. Can I recommend this approach or something analogous that is suitable to the Welsh Cabinet is taken, because the inter-linkages—. It’s inevitably going to be the case that education, health and other areas of social care will have a vital interest for looked-after children, and you can’t just put all that into one ministerial responsibility. But, effective working multiplies the outcomes we can achieve rather than just adding them together. This is something that we really need to do for looked-after children. In this the fifth session of the National Assembly, let’s really show outstanding best practice for the advancement of looked-after children.