Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 1 February 2017.
Yesterday, when I knew I was coming in on this supplementary, I did a little question on Facebook to ask people what they thought of the fact that these campaigns have happened. Many people were aware, but there was quite a shocking amount of people who weren’t aware that these publicity campaigns even existed. I could find, via Women’s Aid, some analysis of what’s happened in the UK—England, predominantly—on these awareness campaigns, but nothing in relation to Wales. So, I’m not taking away from how important it is to carry out these campaigns, but I want to understand their effectiveness, I want to understand if they need to be more high profile and if they need to be happening over a longer period of time, because the message that came back to me yesterday was, yes, as you said, it can’t just be a one-time occasion, it has to be systematic and it has to be all year round.