Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 12 February 2019.
Thank you very much for the answer, Minister. Family Fund is a charity that provides grants to families on low incomes who are raising disabled or seriously ill children in Wales. Earlier this month, Family Fund announced that they had insufficient funding to help families and were no longer able to accept applications until April 2019. One reason for the predicament is that their funding from the Welsh Government's sustainable social services third sector grants scheme was cut in 2016 from £2.5 million a year to less than £2 million over the next three years. Does the First Minister accept that this funding cut is having a detrimental effect on projects and initiatives that support his Government's strategy for social services in Wales, especially for disabled and seriously ill children?