Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:50 pm on 16 October 2018.
Rhianon, yes, thank you very much. And, again, thank you for your support for this area and for championing adoption as well. And certainly the south-east is driving forward. There are other examples, I have to say, in other parts of Wales as well, but what we've done in the south-east area, particularly with access to clinical psychology, has been groundbreaking and one of the things that the NAS will be looking to do is to see how we can then replicate this more widely across Wales. Because that's the way, in that sort of partnership, collaborative, strategic approach, but driving through best practice and making it common, that we'll see real improvements. Because very often for adoptive families they need to know—and the studies will show us, the Cardiff University study will show us—they need the right support at that timely moment, when they need it, to avoid things worsening or getting to a crisis point. So, the sort of work going on in south-east Wales is something that we should shout about and then try and make sure that it's happening across the piste as well. We have many of these examples of good practice now and I think a lot of it is being driven through the national framework and through the national service as well. So, yes, and when she leaves here today I'm sure she will—I hope very much that she will—go and make sure that within her local media and so on she is again driving that need for more families to come forward.