Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 11 October 2016.
First Minister, as you’re aware, social prescribing is highly dependent on the third sector, the community organisations and voluntary groups. However, many rural communities have faced consistent downgrading of community assets and the support networks. How will the Welsh Government, the health boards, and local government work effectively together to ensure that community assets are in place? A brief example is the threatened closure of the Avenue Centre in Tenby, which was being threatened with closure under the terms of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. That’s what the local government tried to do. If you take that kind of asset away, then social prescribing, which we utterly support and think is an excellent way forward, is really going to struggle to be delivered on the ground specifically in rural communities. So, how are you going to tie all this together to make sure—