Eliminating violence against women and children is everybody’s business. It’s fair to say, Cabinet Secretary, that you have made it your business. New Members may not be aware of how much you did as a Minister in previous Assemblies, and you have driven forward policies and strategies and legislation. So, I wanted to recognise you here again and your absolute commitment.

There are six objectives from the strategy that have a particular focus for delivery by the end of this Assembly term. But the most important one for me is changing attitudes, and that is why I say that it is everybody’s business. I was pleased, for the fifth year running, to join the Women’s Institute on an event this afternoon that did just that, and where there were large numbers of young individuals present who want to change minds and attitudes for their generation, and I am hopeful for the generation behind that.

At the rise of the Assembly today I invite everybody here to join me in a candlelit vigil that will be held outside the Senedd building. That vigil will be there to commemorate and remember the lives of those who have been lost. I don’t know how many people know, but in the first three months—12 weeks—of 2015, 26 women were murdered either by their husbands or partners or ex-husbands or ex-partners. That is more than two women every single week. They were wives, they were daughters, they were aunts, they were grandmothers, but what they were most of all were mothers—mothers of children who have been left behind, who are absolutely devastated and wondering how to cope, and families wondering how they’re going to carry on.

So, I hope, Cabinet Secretary, that the social services and well-being Act, which includes provision to help children and adults who need care and support, does deliver for those families who are left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.