Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:43 pm on 25 January 2017.
You’re absolutely right to say that we do take a very different approach to the one that we see in England in terms of our support for social services because, of course, the UK Government has abdicated its responsibility for social services in putting the burden on councils to raise council tax to pay for social care locally, which I think is an unfair approach and one that we wouldn’t be seeking to adopt here.
On delayed transfers of care, we are seeing improvements in those figures and I think that is the result of the work that we are doing through the intermediate care fund. But with regard to the specifics on why we are seeing fewer aids and adaptations, I couldn’t tell you why we’re seeing that because people should be having their needs met through the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, which does require an individual assessment of each person’s needs, which will include aids and adaptations, and they should be available to the people who need them.