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I am pleased to provide Members with an update about our plans for social care recovery.


Members will be very aware of the challenges the pandemic continues to bring to the social care sector and of the need to support it, as the Programme for Government sets out, to recover and to move forward. Today I am publishing a social care recovery framework, which sets out our immediate and short term priorities for recovery. The framework builds on 'Improving Health and Social Care (Covid 19 Looking Forward)'*,* which was published in March, and looks towards the implementation of the important social care commitments published in the Programme for Government last month.


The recovery framework has been developed in collaboration with partners across the social care sector.


Through it, we will:


* Ensure the core of our recovery planning is focused, in the spirit of the Programme for Government, on rebuilding wellbeing, reducing inequalities, widening participation and creating an inclusive society;
* Support people with Long\-Covid, including in terms of increased demand for social care provision;
* Continue to ensure the risk of Covid\-19 entering care homes is minimised and visiting is maintained safely;
* Address the adverse impact Covid 19 has on unpaid carers;
* Work with the Social Care Fair Work Forum to improve terms and conditions for the social care workforce and ensure there is a continued focus on supporting wellbeing and mental health;
* Work with partners to shape a future funding approach to enable commissioners to respond to changing population needs to secure care and support for the future;
* Harness and build on the improved collaborative working across health and social care we have seen during the pandemic to drive improvement; and
* Work with partners to take forward our linked Programme for Government commitments to provide additional specialist support and fund regional residential services for children with complex needs; explore radical reform of current services for looked after children and care leavers; eliminate private profit from the care of looked after children; and strengthen public bodies in their role as ‘corporate parent’.


It is critically important that we use this recovery period to lay the right foundations for the strong, positive future for social care in Wales that the Programme for Government outlines.


This statement is being issued during recess in order to keep members informed. Should members wish me to make a further statement or to answer questions on this when the Senedd returns I would be happy to do so.







Translation:


 
Mae'n bleser gennyf roi’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i Aelodau am ein cynlluniau ar gyfer adfer gofal cymdeithasol.


Bydd yr Aelodau'n ymwybodol iawn o'r heriau sy’n parhau i wynebu’r sector gofal cymdeithasol oherwydd y pandemig, a’r angen i helpu’r gwasanaeth i adfer a symud ymlaen fel y mae’r Rhaglen Lywodraethu yn ei nodi. Heddiw rwy’n cyhoeddi fframwaith ar gyfer adferiad gofal cymdeithasol, sy’n nodi ein blaenoriaethau brys a thymor byr ar gyfer adfer. Mae’r fframwaith yn adeiladu ar *Gwella Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol (COVID\-19: Edrych Tua’r Dyfodol),* a gyhoeddwyd fis Mawrth, ac mae’n edrych ar weithredu’r ymrwymiadau gofal cymdeithasol pwysig a gyhoeddwyd yn y Rhaglen Lywodraethu fis diwethaf.


Datblygwyd y fframwaith ar gyfer adferiad mewn cydweithrediad â phartneriaid ar draws y sector gofal cymdeithasol.


Drwyddo, byddwn yn:


* Sicrhau bod ein gwaith craidd o gynllunio’r adferiad yn canolbwyntio ar ailadeiladu llesiant, lleihau anghydraddoldeb, ehangu cyfranogiad a chreu cymdeithas gynhwysol, yn ysbryd y Rhaglen Lywodraethu;
* Cefnogi pobl â COVID Hir, gan gynnwys o ran y galw cynyddol am ddarpariaeth gofal cymdeithasol;
* Parhau i sicrhau bod y risg y bydd COVID\-19 yn mynd i gartrefi gofal yn cael ei leihau a bod ymweliadau'n cael eu cynnal yn ddiogel;
* Mynd i'r afael â'r effaith andwyol y mae COVID\-19 yn ei chael ar ofalwyr di\-dâl;
* Gweithio gyda'r Fforwm Gwaith Teg Gofal Cymdeithasol i wella telerau ac amodau'r gweithlu gofal cymdeithasol a sicrhau y rhoddir pwyslais parhaus ar gefnogi llesiant ac iechyd meddwl;
* Gweithio gyda phartneriaid i lunio dull ariannu at y dyfodol a fydd yn galluogi comisiynwyr i ymateb i anghenion sy’n newid yn y boblogaeth er mwyn sicrhau gofal a chymorth ar gyfer y dyfodol;
* Manteisio ar y cydweithio gwell ar draws iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol a welwyd yn ystod y pandemig ac adeiladu arno i ysgogi gwelliant;
* Gweithio gyda phartneriaid i ddatblygu ein hymrwymiadau cysylltiedig yn y Rhaglen Lywodraethu er mwyn darparu cymorth arbenigol ychwanegol ac ariannu gwasanaethau preswyl rhanbarthol i blant sydd ag anghenion cymhleth; edrych ar wneud diwygiadau radical i wasanaethau presennol ar gyfer plant sy’n derbyn gofal ac yn gadael gofal; cael gwared ar elw preifat o ofal plant sy’n derbyn gofal; a chryfhau cyrff cyhoeddus yn eu rôl fel ‘rhiant corfforaethol’.


Mae'n hollbwysig ein bod yn defnyddio'r cyfnod adfer hwn i osod y sylfeini cywir ar gyfer dyfodol cryf a chadarnhaol i ofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru, fel y mae’r Rhaglen Lywodraethu yn amlinellu.


Caiff y datganiad ei gyhoeddi yn ystod y toriad er mwyn rhoi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i aelodau. Os bydd aelodau eisiau i mi wneud datganiad pellach neu ateb cwestiynau ynglŷn â hyn pan fydd y Senedd yn dychwelyd, byddwn yn hapus i wneud hynny.