Childcare and Play Services

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 5 October 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:27, 5 October 2021

I thank the Member for that. I know she has a long-standing interest in all of this, having led a debate on these matters on the floor of the Senedd towards the end of the last Senedd term. The £5.1 million that my colleague Julie Morgan announced recently is designed to do exactly the things that Vikki Howells has mentioned: to reinforce play provision in different parts of Wales, to make sure that that play provision is inclusive and available to all children. Very importantly, as part of that funding, local authorities are required to show how they have consulted with children and young people themselves in carrying out those assessments and then making decisions as to how that money can be put to best use.