Can I just say, following Oscar, that I thought he summed up there the feeling that carers have for the person they care for? It's an act of deep love but it's a demanding act as well. I think it's good that we remember the context in which these activities are performed.

Can I start with an observation? This is the second week the First Minister has sat through the Conservative debate. We debated e-sports last week, and we're debating young adult carers this week. I think it's fair to say that, traditionally, First Ministers have not always taken the learning opportunity of sitting through a Conservative debate. But I do believe it does show that the minority parties do bring some genuinely non-partisan subjects to the Chamber that need attention and need us all to work together. So, I'm very pleased to see that the Government are taking this debate very seriously. 

There are a number of things that I was going to mention that have already been raised, but I would perhaps take further those remarks that were just made to talk about the need for multi-agency working. The various carers charities emphasise this. We've heard the sometimes lack of support that young carers get at school, then their median grade achieved at GCSE is often a D. That indicates that they were very close to getting a higher grade. I think that's something to be very mindful of. And then when they go into FE, they often there don't get support, they're not always receiving the carers assessment to which they're entitled from the local authority, and people are just not putting the picture together. And that's what we need to resolve. 

But the political parties need to do the same. One of the great barriers we have at the moment is how young carers access further and higher education. It can end their right to the carers allowance if they're pursuing more than 21 hours' study. We've heard that our proposal is to try to meet that with a grant that we could control, a young carers futures grant. That would come at a considerable expense, and it is a priority that we feel very committed to. I think we need to send a message also to the UK Government that the way carers receive their various allowances, but particularly the carers allowance, needs to be looked at. It's also the case that part-time employment and even voluntary employment, sometimes, which is so needed for carers to get those social connections, the sense of well-being and a life beyond just caring—it's very, very important that we sustain that. 

We've heard a little bit this afternoon about the importance of young carers' health and well-being. How great is that, when you're in early adulthood? You are forming new relationships, you are looking for new opportunities—all these things are happening. And I think we would all say that that period of youth, in our late teens and 20s, is a very, very precious time. I don't think there's anything greater than being young, and I say that as someone who is about to attain his fifty-seventh birthday. But, you know, you don't get your youth twice either. But there are also many challenges, in terms of your experience to deal with complicated and difficult situations, your general lack of income—as you get older, you get more money and the need to spend it sometimes declines, whereas when you're younger, those demands are very intense. So, I think we need to be aware of these health and well-being issues and we need to connect up, really, the work that the Welsh Government can do, the genuine pressure we need to put on the UK Government in terms of what we see that our young carers need, and how, at the moment, perhaps, adjustment to some of the welfare and benefit regulations needs to be fully considered. 

So, I do hope the working group that's looking at how young carers may be financially supported comes forward very soon and that you will reflect on our suggestion, but I do think there is a need to send a clear message from this Assembly that all parties must work together to achieve these objectives, because young carers are doing a tremendous job for us and we should be really grateful for their high-quality citizenship and the love they show those they care for.