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Health and Social Care Committee’s Inquiry into Residential Care for Older People in Wales

  20/02/2013   Mark Drakeford: Yr ymchwiliad hwn yw’r darn mwyaf helaeth o waith y mae’r pwyllgor wedi ymgymryd ag ef hyd yma yn ystod y pedwerydd Cynulliad. Wrth wneud hynny, ein man cychwyn oedd ceisio gweld y system o safbwynt y defnyddiwr. Gwnaethom ganolbwyntio ar y penderfyniad hanfodol cyntaf i fynd i ofal preswyl, gan edrych ar y dewisiadau sydd ar gael i bobl hŷn, a’r cyngor y gallant hwy a’u teuluoedd ei gael. Wedyn, bu inni ystyried gallu’r sector i gwrdd â’r gofyn; ansawdd gwasanaethau gofal preswyl a phrofiadau defnyddwyr gwasanaethau a’u teuluoedd wrth ddefnyddio’r gwasanaethau hyn.   [This inquiry has been the most extensive piece of work undertaken by the committee to date during the fourth Assembly. In doing so, our starting point was to try to see the system from the point of view of the user. We focused on the first crucial decision to enter residential care, looking at the choices available to older people, and the advice that they and their families can draw upon. Thereafter, we considered the capacity of the sector to meet demand; the quality of residential care services and the experiences of service users and their families in using these services.]      Caiff Read more [...]

Question to Deputy Minister: Co-Production in Social Services

  Dydd Mercher, 23 Ionawr 2013/ Wednesday, 16 January 2013     Mark Drakeford: Pa gamau gweithredu y mae'r Gweinidog yn eu cymryd i ymwreiddio egwyddorion cyd-gynhyrchu wrth lunio a darparu gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yng Nghymru. [What action is the Minister taking to embed the principles of co-production in the design and delivery of social services in Wales.]     Gwenda Thomas:‘Sustainable Social Services for Wales: A Framework for Action’ gives our commitment to our broader aims of social services built around citizens. The draft social services and wellbeing (Wales) Bill includes duties to promote development of co-productive delivery models, such as social enterprises.     Mark Drakeford: Diolch, Weinidog. We look forward to the publication of the Bill, hopefully next week. In thinking about what it might say about co-production, are there lessons that you believe that we might learn in Wales from developments in other parts of the United Kingdom, such as Scotland, where thinking about co-production and practical policies based on those principles have already been put into practice?     Gwenda Thomas: Thank you for that supplementary question. I am pleased Read more [...]

Older People’s Commissioner’s Annual Report

Mark Drakeford: Mae’r Cynulliad yn ystyried adroddiad blynyddol y comisiynydd heddiw, a bu modd i’r Pwyllgor Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol gynnal ein cyfarfod craffu blynyddol gyda hi yn gynharach yn yr hydref. Dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, daeth nifer o gysylltiadau i’r amlwg rhwng ein gwaith ni fel pwyllgor a gwaith swyddfa’r comisiynydd. Nid yw’n fawr o syndod bod materion iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol yn parhau i fod ar frig y rhestr o broblemau y bydd pobl hŷn yn eu codi gyda’r comisiynydd. Felly’r oedd hi yn ystod y cyfnod pan oedd Ruth Marks yn ymgymryd â dyletswyddau’r comisiynydd, a dyma, o hyd, yw’r maes mwyaf arwyddocaol yng ngwaith y comisiynydd presennol, Sarah Rochira. Rwy’n cytuno’n llwyr gyda phopeth a ddywedodd Darren Millar am waith Ruth Marks ac am ei chyfraniad pwysig i fywydau pobl hŷn yng Nghymru. [The Assembly considers the commissioner’s annual report today, and the Health and Social Care Committee was also able to hold our annual scrutiny meeting with her earlier in the autumn. Over the past year, a number of links have emerged between our work as a committee and that of the commissioner’s office. It is no great surprise that health and social care issues continue to be high on the Read more [...]