Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 22 June 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:51, 22 June 2021

(Translated)

Well, first of all, I do recognise the impact that coronavirus has had on the health and well-being of young people. Every time I meet young people, through the Youth Parliament, for example, that is an issue that they raise with me. Generally speaking, they aren't talking about specialist services such as CAMHS, they are talking about things that they want to see in schools and in communities, things that they can access quickly and access when they are trying to deal with those day-to-day problems of growing up in such an uncertain time.

Now, with reference to CAMHS, of course, they, like every other department within the health service, are trying to deal with the impact of coronavirus on them. They can't see people in the way they did prior to coronavirus, and they are working hard to try and be flexible and creative to find ways of providing that specialist support to those young people who become so unwell that they need that specialist service.