<p>Child Poverty in South Wales West</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 14 September 2016.

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Photo of Carl Sargeant Carl Sargeant Labour 2:43, 14 September 2016

I think the Member’s right and what we have to do and what we have done in many areas around the Families First programme is look at the wraparound provision of the family—not just children, but parents and guardians—and about what are its actual needs. I’ve recently been criticised about some action I’d taken on Families First regarding some of the more direct work about how we support families, where we’ve removed some of the financial investment around that and the knowledge base. What I’m very keen to assure Members of is that my priority is about making sure that we have a support mechanism around the family, and whatever the problems are, we can signpost and support them to move on to the next—. It’s about preventative exposure rather than responding to a family or a person who’s in crisis later on in the day.