English: I thank you very much indeed for those questions. You began by talking about the population needs assessments, and they've been tremendously useful in identifying some core themes, I think, that stretch across all of those population needs assessments. Loneliness and isolation has come out loud and clear as one of those particular areas across all of those population needs assessments, but poverty and deprivation, the importance to individuals of independence, and the importance of building resilience in individuals and communities, they've come across as themes in terms of the ways in which we can address the needs that have been identified within those population needs assessments. The needs assessments themselves cover eight core themes: children and young people, old people's health, physical disabilities, learning disabilities and autism, mental health, sensory impairment, carers who need support, and violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence. So, I think they do give us a very robust and clear picture about the needs of those various different groups of people, right across those regional partnership boards. It's my intention to publish a national population needs assessment based on what we've heard from the population needs assessments at a regional level, because they have been so illuminating and so interesting, so I've asked Social Care Wales to undertake that piece of work with a view to reporting in November. That's the aim: to report at that date. In terms of how regional partnership boards come to an agreement in terms of the pooling of budgets and how much they pool within those budgets, and do they have enough to meet the needs of the people they've identified through their population needs assessment, Welsh Government has provided statutory guidance under Part 9 of the Act, which gives an almost step-by-step route to pooled budgets. For example, it starts off with a population needs assessment, but then it moves on to agreeing an appropriate integrated market position statement and a commissioning strategy as a result of that, and agreeing common contracts and specifications, and developing an integrated approach to agreeing the fees with providers, and an integrated approach to quality assurance, whilst at all times maintaining transparency as well. So, those steps along the way should lead to a point where pooled budgets are the next natural progression, and that they're pooled in a way that is informed and well resourced in order to meet those needs as well. So, those steps have been set out in statutory guidance. You also asked how we can ensure that the ICF allows innovation, and that was one of the purposes that the ICF was set up for in the first place, in order to give people working in the sector and to give leaders in the health and social care sector the okay, if you like, to try different things and to do things differently. Actually, the ICF was set up to encourage innovation, and actually it was okay if things didn't work; we could learn from that just as well as we learn from things that do work. So, innovation has always been very much at the heart of that, and there are some fantastic examples, of course. You might be aware of the Pembrokeshire Intermediate Voluntary Organisations Team, PIVOT, which has used £160,000 this year of funding to support timely and effective discharges from hospital, and also to improve opportunities for independent living within the community. To date, within this financial year, 1,320 bed days have been saved and 132 hospital admissions avoided, and there have been 80 supported discharges just within that particular project as well. So, lots of exciting things going on, and people thinking in a very different way. In terms of workforce planning, again this is something that Social Care Wales has very much engaged with in terms of their new and expanded responsibilities in terms of the development and oversight of the workforce in Wales. They work very closely within the sector and with the regional partnership boards as well. Finally, you mentioned the private care sector as well, and how we're ensuring that we recognise the important partners that they are within all of this. Well, the regional partnership boards, through the social services and well-being Act, are mandated to have a representative of the independent sector on each and every one of those regional partnership boards, so that they can give their unique perspective to those boards as well.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi am y cwestiynau yna. Fe wnaethoch chi ddechrau drwy siarad am yr asesiadau anghenion poblogaeth, ac maen nhw wedi bod yn hynod ddefnyddiol wrth nodi rhai themâu craidd, rwy'n credu, sy'n berthnasol i'r holl asesiadau anghenion poblogaeth hynny. Gwelwyd yn glir iawn bod unigrwydd ac arwahanrwydd yn un o'r meysydd penodol hynny sy'n gyffredin i'r holl asesiadau anghenion poblogaeth hynny, ond mae tlodi ac amddifadedd, pwysigrwydd annibyniaeth i bobl, a phwysigrwydd meithrin gwytnwch mewn unigolion a chymunedau, mae nhw wedi eu hamlygu fel themâu o ran y ffyrdd y gallwn ni fynd i'r afael â'r anghenion a nodwyd yn yr asesiadau anghenion poblogaeth hynny. Mae'r asesiadau anghenion eu hunain yn ymwneud ag wyth thema graidd: plant a phobl ifanc, iechyd pobl hŷn, anableddau corfforol, anableddau dysgu ac awtistiaeth, iechyd meddwl, nam ar y synhwyrau, gofalwyr sydd angen cymorth, a thrais yn erbyn menywod, cam-drin yn y cartref a thrais rhywiol. Felly, rwy'n credu eu bod yn rhoi darlun clir a chadarn iawn inni ynghylch anghenion y gwahanol grwpiau amrywiol hynny o bobl, ledled y byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol hynny. Fy mwriad yw cyhoeddi asesiad anghenion poblogaeth cenedlaethol yn seiliedig ar yr hyn a ddaeth i'r amlwg o'r asesiadau anghenion poblogaeth ar lefel ranbarthol, oherwydd y buon nhw mor ddadlennol ac mor ddiddorol, felly rwyf wedi gofyn i Ofal Cymdeithasol Cymru ymgymryd â'r darn hwnnw o weithio gyda golwg ar adrodd ym mis Tachwedd. Dyna'r nod: adrodd ar y dyddiad hwnnw. O ran sut y mae byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol yn dod i gytundeb o ran cyfuno cyllidebau a faint y maent yn ei gronni o fewn y cyllidebau hynny, ac a oes ganddynt ddigon i ddiwallu anghenion y bobl y maen nhw wedi eu nodi trwy eu hasesiad anghenion poblogaeth, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi darparu canllawiau statudol o dan Ran 9 o'r Ddeddf, sy'n rhoi canllawiau cam wrth gam bron iawn ynglŷn â chyllidebau cyfun. Er enghraifft, mae'n cychwyn gydag asesiad anghenion poblogaeth, ond yna mae'n symud ymlaen i gytuno ar ddatganiad sefyllfa marchnad integredig briodol a strategaeth gomisiynu fel canlyniad i hynny, a chytuno ar gontractau a manylebau cyffredin, a datblygu ffordd integredig o fynd ati i gytuno ar ffioedd gyda darparwyr, a ffordd integredig o sicrhau ansawdd, gan sicrhau tryloywder bob amser hefyd. Felly, dylai'r camau hynny ar hyd y ffordd arwain at sefyllfa pan mai'r dilyniant naturiol nesaf yw cyllidebau cyfun, ac y cânt eu cyfuno mewn ffordd ddeallus sy'n caniatáu digon o adnoddau er mwyn diwallu'r anghenion hynny hefyd. Felly, mae'r camau hynny wedi eu hamlinellu mewn canllawiau statudol. Fe wnaethoch ofyn hefyd sut y gallwn ni sicrhau bod y Gronfa Gofal Integredig yn caniatáu arloesi, a dyna un o'r rhesymau dros sefydlu'r Gronfa yn y lle cyntaf, er mwyn rhoi caniatâd, os mynnwch chi, i bobl sy'n gweithio yn y sector ac i arweinwyr ym maes iechyd a chymdeithasol, i roi cynnig ar bethau gwahanol ac i wneud pethau'n wahanol. Mewn gwirionedd, sefydlwyd y Gronfa Gofal Integredig i annog arloesi, ac a dweud y gwir, roedd hi'n iawn os nad oedd pethau'n gweithio; fe allem ni ddysgu oddi wrth hynny cymaint ag yr ydym yn dysgu o bethau sydd yn gweithio. Felly, mae arloesi wedi bod yn rhan ganolog iawn o hynny erioed, ac mae yna rai enghreifftiau gwych, wrth gwrs. Efallai eich bod yn ymwybodol o Dîm Sefydliadau Gwirfoddol Canolradd Sir Benfro, PIVOT, sydd wedi defnyddio £160,000 o gyllid eleni i gefnogi'r agwedd o ryddhau pobl yn amserol ac yn effeithiol o'r ysbyty, a hefyd i wella cyfleoedd i fyw'n annibynnol yn y gymuned. Hyd yn hyn, yn y flwyddyn ariannol hon, mae 1,320 o ddiwrnodau gwely wedi'u rhyddhau a 132 o dderbyniadau i ysbytai wedi eu hosgoi, ac fe gafodd 80 o bobl eu rhyddhau gyda'r cynnig o gymorth dilynol dim ond yn rhan o'r prosiect penodol hwnnw hefyd. Felly, mae llawer o bethau cyffrous yn digwydd, a phobl yn meddwl mewn ffordd wahanol iawn. O ran cynllunio gweithlu, unwaith eto mae hyn yn rhywbeth y mae Gofal Cymdeithasol Cymru wedi ymwneud llawer iawn ag ef o ran eu cyfrifoldebau newydd a helaethach o ran datblygu a goruchwylio'r gweithlu yng Nghymru. Maen nhw'n gweithio'n agos iawn o fewn y sector a chyda'r byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol hefyd. Yn olaf, soniasoch am y sector gofal preifat hefyd, a sut yr ydym ni'n sicrhau ein bod yn cydnabod y partneriaid pwysig sy'n rhan o hyn i gyd. Wel, mae rheidrwydd ar y byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol, drwy'r Ddeddf Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant, i gael cynrychiolydd o'r sector annibynnol ar bob un o'r byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol hynny, fel y gallant hwythau roi eu safbwynt unigryw i'r byrddau hynny hefyd.