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Minister for Children and Social Care
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The Minister for Children and Social Care (Welsh: Y Gweinidog Plant a Gofal Cymdeithasol) is a minister of the Welsh Government, accountable to the cabinet secretary for health and social care. The current officeholder is Dawn Bowden since March 2024.

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The post's responsibilities are:[13]

  • Some public health responsibilities, specifically;
  • Delivery and performance of NHS Wales
  • Escalation procedures
  • Responsibility in managing reports from Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, such as keeping a receipt of, responding to, and managing the direction of their reports.
  • Overseeing the Welsh Government's relationship with Audit Wales in matters relating to the NHS.
  • The training and development of the medical workforce, excluding the higher education years 1-5 of Doctors
  • Health and social care research and development
  • Digital health and health innovation
  • Mental health services
  • Suicide prevention
  • Dementia
  • Autism
  • Gambling problem-related health impacts
  • Substance misuse
  • Health of the armed forces and veterans
  • Strategy for Obesity
  • Food Standards Agency in Wales, including food safety
  • Genetically modified food (but not genetically modified crops)
  • Experience of patients, their involvement, and the citizens' voices
  • Safeguarding
  • Services for Adoption and Foster care
  • Advocacy services for children and young people's, such as managing complains, representations, as well as advocacy, under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
  • Sharing information under the Children Act 2004
  • Cafcass Cymru
  • Overseeing and deciding policy regarding social service provision of activities by the local authorities in Wales, including issuing statutory guidance
  • Overseeing Social Care Wales
  • Regulating domiciliary, residential, adult placements, foster care, under 8's care provision and private healthcare
  • Inspecting and reporting the provision of social services by the local authorities in Wales, through the Care Inspectorate Wales, including jointly reviewing social services and responding to any reports
  • The rights and entitlements of children and young people, including utilising the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Early years, childcare and play, including the "childcare offer" and its workforce
  • Early childhood education and care
  • Flying Start for children aged 0–3 years
  • Policies for Families First and play

The post is accountable and deputy to the Minister for Health and Social Services.[14]

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