10. Short Debate: Caring for our carers: Securing the recognition, respite and support our carers deserve

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:20 pm on 10 July 2019.

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Photo of David Lloyd David Lloyd Plaid Cymru 7:20, 10 July 2019

Will you take an intervention on that point? Basically, it is down to funding at the end of the day, and social care. Can I commend Jayne Bryant's presentation, in the first place, and also Joyce and Bethan's interventions, because what we're finding, certainly from my professional experience as a GP, is that people who used to qualify for social care, local authority-provided domiciliary care in their own homes, now no longer qualify because obviously the thresholds go up to receive care because of the lack of funding? Now, nobody's blaming anybody other than somebody up the road in Westminster. So, the funding for local authorities is absolutely vital. So, how can we track that to make sure that the money is there so that local authorities don't always shift up the thresholds and so that deserving people who need care can get care?