Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:20 pm on 16 November 2016.
Minister, will you take an intervention?
Thank you for taking the intervention. Monmouthshire County Council has set up a number of dementia-friendly communities, which have worked because the views of older people have been taken into account at the very outset so that, when they’re being supported, that support is tailored to what they need and what they say they need. So, I welcome your talk of placing their rights on a statutory level. Would you endeavour to make sure that, in that statutory framework, the views of older people are paramount and that they are not overridden or able to be overridden by people who think they know best, but actually don’t know better than the people receiving the care and support?