<p>The Kris Wade Case</p>

Part of 3. 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:25 pm on 20 September 2017.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 3:25, 20 September 2017

I think that is covered in the remit. We expect the assurance to be provided by HIW about current practice, to look at the identified and recognised failings and assure that those are things we have designed out of our system—as an example, the challenge about not properly checking the criminal records check. It’s one thing to say, ‘Well, would that person have passed a records check even if it had been done at the time, at the point of initial employment?’, and, actually, it’s likely they would have done, but the challenge is, in any event: how do you actually remove the risk? And we now have a process across the national health service where shared services undertake that, so people should not be able to get into our national health service in the same way and avoid a criminal records check, for example. So, I recognise the point that you make, robustly as well, that there does need to be proper reassurance that Members can place faith and reliance, because it matters not just to Members within the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg university health board area; this is an issue for the whole service to take lessons and learning from and to properly reassure the public about the way I expect our health service to behave.