Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:31 pm on 15 June 2022.
Thank you very much for that question and I am thoroughly in agreement with what the First Minister said last week. I don’t think we need another inquiry in Wales at the moment. I think we can learn from the inquiries that have taken place and certainly we’re studying the English inquiry. And I think there are lots of points in the English inquiry that are very similar to the sort of things that we are planning to do here. What we feel is that what we need is action, not another inquiry. I think we know that social care does need reforming. We are convinced it needs reforming and we are planning to reform it and we have a whole list of reforms that we are going to carry out. So, we really feel that we need action and we see no point in having another inquiry at this stage. But as I’ve said, we will look very carefully at the recommendations from the English inquiry that has just come out and we’ll certainly learn from those recommendations, but we have a plan for reform that we are getting on with.