Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:30 pm on 17 May 2022.
Thank you very much. I very much welcome your mention of regional residential services for children with complex needs, because this is a really good example of invest-to-save, because, at the moment, as you say, we spend over £200,000 per place, and if they're far away from home, then who is actually monitoring the quality of that provision? So, I wondered if you could give us a bit more detail on how many places we are outsourcing away from Wales, and therefore are very difficult for families or the corporate parent to monitor, and what progress you expect to see regional boards make on this one.
Secondly, I'd just like to pick up on what was mentioned by Mabon ap Gwynfor, which is around dementia. It's a broad-spectrum description of a condition, which can range from just brief memory loss to complete inability to manage your own life. But the telemedical possibilities enable people to live as safely as possible in their own homes, without having people absolutely on top of them the whole time. So, I just wondered if you could say a little bit more about whether the market is about to provide for these sorts of needs, whether it's in people's existing homes or in specialist accommodation, or whether this is something you think the Welsh Government's going to need to lead on.