The Healthy Child Wales universal scheduled health visiting and school nursing contacts, for every child from nought to seven, will be available across all health boards by October, with enhanced intensive interventions delivered to those families and children with increased levels of need. And, of course, as we know, all children in Wales have access to the foundation phase, and our enhanced childcare offer for working parents of three to four-year-olds is currently being rolled out. All—all—of our early years programmes are intended to support children and their families to bring about the best long-term outcomes, but we do want to go further.

Now, reflecting the commitment in the national strategy, an extensive programme of work is under way to explore how we can create that co-ordinated single early years system at the local and the national level. So, we are working, via an intensive co-constructed project with Cwm Taf Public Services Board, to explore options to reconfigure the system for the early years. We'll learn from this, and we'll develop and share the ideas around this more widely in due course.

As I've said, Flying Start is a key component in delivering this vision. I therefore very much welcome the decision by the Children, Young People and Education Committee to hold the inquiry into Flying Start outreach. My written response to the committee's report I can't go through in the time available, but it sets out my detailed reply to the report's seven recommendations, and, as you know, I've fully accepted or partially accepted all but one of them.

Let me turn to that, because a few people mentioned it, and, actually, with different views on it, curiously. Because recommendation 6 was requesting additional monitoring—regular monitoring reports—detailing any revisions to service provision by local authorities. We couldn't agree to this—we did consider it, but couldn't agree to it—for increased monitoring reports on potential regional diversion in approaches to intervention resulting from the additional flexibility that we're now giving, because that additional flexibility has been requested from local authorities. They've also requested at the same time, 'Can you please not increase the burden on it while you're doing it? Can we have the flexibility and let us get on with it?' So, our commitment is to reduce rather than increase the reporting burden on local authorities. Over the last 12 to 18 months, we've been working with those local authorities to reduce and streamline the amount of data to lessen the burden, focusing on what data is considered necessary to produce the annual Flying Start statistical bulletin. But I have instead agreed to address this as part of our next evaluation update to the committee, okay, so we will come back to that.

Now, Flying Start is over a decade old. In some places, like my own, there are examples of where it's 13 years old, going on 14 years old. It is, therefore, an opportune time to reflect on its many successes as well as to review the current early years landscape, in which the programme is a key player. Indeed, at the end of 2017, I agreed that my officials should undertake a review of Flying Start to ensure it remains fit for purpose as we move forward into its second decade.

We want to build on the considerable achievements of the programme and learn from what works, not least how we can deepen the partnership, the collaboration and the multi-agency working across sectors in support of young children and their families. Fundamental to this is the need to work with those on the ground delivering Flying Start to ensure that their expertise, their experience, is brought to bear as part of this review. It is vital that any changes are fully and thoroughly considered and well managed, so we learn from where this is working well and we develop models of good practice to share more widely. Work is progressing well on this, and I anticipate being able to update Members on the progress of this review later this year.

The committee's inquiry and report are, therefore, very timely and a helpful contributor to this wider review. Your findings have provided a helpful insight into the specific element of outreach, which is an important part of what makes Flying Start the vital programme it has proven to be. Just on that outreach element, whilst the upgrade—the extension—to 5 per cent happened during the committee process, I think we'll have to look at how well different areas are using that, and whether they're fully using it as well. John, your point is interesting—I think it's worth going back, looking at individual areas, and Members should go back and say, 'How are we using this locally? How are we doing that flexibility that the Minister has given?'

But the outreach element does provide a degree of flexibility for local authorities to provide support to children and their families and targeted groups with identified need living outside designated Flying Start areas. And it also provides continuity of support to children and families moving out of those areas, or to bridge the gap to receiving other services provision.

So, in conclusion, Dirprwy Lywydd—diolch yn fawr—we will use the review of Flying Start and the work to reconfigure the early years system to explore options available around outreach. The committee's recommendations will form part of this work, and our review, including any further flexibility around outreach, must be underpinned by this deep collaboration with local authorities, learning from good practice and ensuring there are no unintended consequences regarding the overall integrity of this landmark programme that is so well regarded internationally. Diolch yn fawr iawn.