Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 11 May 2022.
Thank you, Natasha, for that question, and absolutely I agree that we need to have tailored messages. Our engagement through the pandemic was very proactive in that regard. We contracted a specialist ethnic minority engagement agency. Materials for specific communities were co-produced with individuals from those communities, with quote card images of community leaders explaining about things like vaccination. We've already discussed the work of Muslim Doctors Cymru. We're also committed to doing this work in a range of languages, using a multilingual street team, key documents and information translated into more than 35 languages. And all focus group activity that we undertook has contained a group specifically from ethnic minority communities. So, this is an issue that we are taking very seriously, and we're doing that across the public health arena, because we recognise there are particular challenges across the board with things like promoting healthy weight, mental health, keeping people in employment, and we are very committed to making sure that we do reach the communities that we really do need to reach.