Social Care in Mid and West Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services — Postponed from 8 November – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 15 November 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:22, 15 November 2017

I thank the Minister for that answer, congratulate him on his appointment and welcome him to his new role. He will know from his briefing, if he wasn't aware already, that the case of the Bodlondeb care home in Aberystwyth has been raised several times in this Chamber—not least by my colleague Simon Thomas—and outside, by no less exalted a figure than the Llywydd herself. Ceredigion County Council has recently taken the final decision to close this nursing home, but there appear to be no adequate plans in Ceredigion for alternative care for the residents of this home, and indeed no plan for the provision of social care in that part of the county for the future. So, whilst the Minister has rightly said how much money has been provided by Welsh Government for these purposes, what can be done in circumstances where county councils, who are the providers on the ground, don't make adequate provision for the future? And what powers does he have to fill the void that is left in this kind of situation?