Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 28 March 2017.
First Minister, you will be aware of my recent short debate on the importance of ensuring that resilience in our children and young people is developed long before a young person needs specialist child and adolescent mental health services. The Together for Children and Young People programme includes very welcome work streams to promote universal resilience, including work in our schools and linked to the ongoing work the Government is doing on adverse childhood experiences. But, as you've highlighted, the Cabinet Secretary for health is responsible for the Together for Children and Young People programme, while the Cabinet Secretaries for education and children are responsible for the other two areas respectively, which does raise questions for me as to how this work is being taken forward in a joined-up way across Government. Will you personally look at this issue, First Minister, and commit to ensuring that the work to deliver on Together for Children and Young People is taken forward with urgency in a genuinely cross-cutting way across Government?