Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 2 December 2020.
Diolch, Nick. Just to make it clear that we do have regular meetings with the Wales Alliance for Mental Health, who are the representatives of the third sector in relation to mental health, and of course, they do keep us updated as to what they see is the situation on the ground. And I'm very keen to make sure that I have a second view of what's going on; obviously, I get the information directly from our health boards, but I'm very keen to make sure that that is cross-referenced and cross-checked in terms of people's real-life experience.
In relation to the tier 4 support, one of the things that we're clear about is that we do need to see improvements in that area. And that's why I have made sure that our officials meet fortnightly to check what the information is, what the updated information is, in terms of numbers of people who are able to access, and those, more importantly, who are not able to access that support. I've been asking for a weekly update from my officials to make sure that that situation is something that we can keep abreast of. Just in terms of the tier 4 support, just this week, my understanding is there's only one person who's failed to access that tier 4 support.