Healthy Child Wales

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 11 May 2022.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 2:08, 11 May 2022

Diolch yn fawr, Buffy. I'm sure you'll be aware that the Deputy Minister for mental health has been absolutely committed to this issue, certainly when she was Chair of the committee before, and obviously now is responsible for making sure that that's enacted in practice. I think she visited the new Tonna centre that was opened only very recently, the first of its kind in Wales where we can give that perinatal mental health support that people are looking for. Now, that continues to be a priority for the Welsh Government, and I'm sure that the—. I think the Deputy Minister will be writing to the Children, Young People and Education Committee on an update against the recommendations of that committee and that inquiry that the committee had into perinatal mental health.

And in relation to the maternity and neonatal safety support programme, we're finalising agreements at the moment with Improvement Cymru in order to recruit into the programme posts at national and health board levels to commence the work on the diagnostic phase of that programme. So, there's more to come.