Support for Veterans

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:04 pm on 28 February 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:04, 28 February 2018

Cabinet Secretary, Jane Hutt has just highlighted the issue of the support of volunteers, but there are many organisations, big and small, and charities, that help to support veterans. An example of where they sometimes fall down and somebody goes through the net is where we had a veteran in Maesteg who was living in a car for seven months. He fell on bad luck after he left the forces; he wasn't automatically eligible for support for housing. But that shows an example of how the volunteers then got hold of him. But these small groups and these larger groups sometimes conflict with one another. Is it possible that the Welsh Government can bring together these organisations to look at how a co-ordinated approach can be put together to support veterans in their communities?