4. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Learning Disability Action Plan

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:01 pm on 24 May 2022.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour 4:01, 24 May 2022

I thank Hefin David for that contribution and for all the work that he's done in this area and in other connected areas. With the parallel routes, it does cause problems and it does cause delays, so the action plan does want the development of improved and integrated children's and young person's learning disability services across early learning, schools, health and social care, and also including transition to adult services. We have set aside £175,000 of the £3 million I mentioned to undertake detailed mapping of services to identify gaps and needs. One of the issues as well is we really want to improve transition to adult services, because as well as the parallel paths, there is the big hurdle when you transfer to adult services. So, I thank him very much for that important point, and that is certainly one of the things we are considering in the action plan.