There two things. One is that there is no one answer to this—there are a multiplicity of ways in which we take this work forward—and secondly to say it won't be overnight. But you are absolutely right in saying that some of the issues that you've raised already are important. We are working with social care workers themselves to try and devise the right package of incentives that shows actually that this is a valued career path, not simply a job. Those observations that were made in the PAC committee last week are very telling in that if you go into nursing or other areas you could be two or three times as long, seeing that as career progression.

We know also that some social workers are moving from social work into other career paths as well. You look particularly at things such as domiciliary care workers within social care. So, doing things such as extending the register, as we are now doing—it's a tricky ask, I realise, for domiciliary care providers, but extending the register to domiciliary care workers on a voluntary basis from 2018, ahead of mandatory registration from 2020, is part of it. It's an essential part, because it's an essential part of the professionalisation of the workforce to ensure that we have social care workers that are appropriately qualified to deliver qualified care to the vulnerable in our society. 

It is also working with Social Care Wales, with Qualifications Wales and other key stakeholders to develop clear career pathways—not a job that you go into and there's a dead end to it, or a job you go into and drop out of early, as those figures showed, but there's a proper career pathway here, that people can see that they can develop over a long time within this career, such a valuable career that it is, with continuing education and learning that enable those social care workers to progress through their careers. And also, I have to say—I mentioned the role that I have as a Minister in doing this, and I'm sure that every Assembly Member has as well, in speaking up for the profession right across—that it's also about working with Social Care Wales to develop a marketing and a recruitment and retention campaign to publicise that positive image of what social care workers do.

One final point: we've also provided £19 million this year of recurrent funding for local authorities to work with service providers to help manage the impact of implementing the national living wage. The national living wage itself is part of this multiplicity of ways in which we say that this is a valuable profession, with valued people working in it, and we want to see more people coming into it and staying in it longer. We'll do that and we'll work with all the partners out there to make sure that this is seen as a worthwhile career for the long term.