Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 3:00 pm on 13 June 2018.
Thank you. At the beginning of the week, your fellow Members of Government the Cabinet Secretary for health and the Minister for social care announced a plan for the future of health and care, and one of the objectives is to ensure better collaboration and, indeed, integration between the work of local government and health boards. Now, one question that’s been playing on my mind, and that I know is playing on the minds of some of those in local government in Wales, is: surely, in putting a health and care plan together, one would need stability in local government in order to deliver that. Reorganising local government and, therefore, social care departments isn’t likely to help with that integration process. The suggestion, as I see it—and I would like to hear your view on this—is that the different department of your Government don’t seem to be speaking to each other.