Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 1 March 2017.
Yes, thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. Good afternoon, Minister. Thank you for your announcement yesterday on the appointment of the inaugural board for Social Care Wales. As we know, its duties will extend well beyond those of registration, as fulfilled by the care council, and its chairman made plan to me yesterday that they’re looking forward to using their combined expertise to be a critical friend to Government as well as influencing direction and priorities in policy for social care and social services. This, hopefully, may redress the imbalance of the solitary expert voice for social care on the parliamentary review panel. How do you as Minister plan to capitalise on this body of expertise in order to avoid the integration agenda resulting in a sort of medical model for social care, and how have you evaluated how much more resource it’ll need than the care council in order to carry out its roles in professional development and policy influence?