English: Thank you very much for those questions. I'm glad that you began by acknowledging that it's important that we don't work in silos in this regard. I think it's important that the Welsh Government shows leadership in terms of being able to work across traditional boundaries, especially when we are asking local authorities and health boards to do difficult things, including pooling budgets through the social services and well-being Act, and that's one of the key roles of the regional partnership boards, because making effective use of resources is a key priority for those boards. Those pooled funds and improved integrated commissioning will result in greater resilience in the provision of services, with a focus on improved quality and not just better value for money. We have been assured that all regional partnership boards are now delivering a form of pooled funds in relation to care homes for older people. We want to ensure that there are fully formed pooled funds in place that deliver effective joint commissioning by April of next year. And the Minister has made it clear that we will consider intervening directly if that's not the case. So, yes, it's important that the Welsh Government shows leadership and I think we've done that through 'Prosperity for All', which recognises housing and social care as two of our five cross-Government priorities, and we recognise that there are roles for all of us across Government to be working together on these agendas; it's certainly not one person's responsibility to be delivering. Are we building enough bungalows? No, definitely not. I was really pleased yesterday to visit the new development in Maesteg with my colleague Huw Irranca-Davies. They are building new bungalows there and that's really exciting, because, actually, we don't have enough bungalows being built. I was talking to developers as to why, and they're often seen as being quite inefficient in terms of building them, because they are, per square metre, more expensive to build than other houses. But, equally, bungalows really do meet the needs of older people who need to be living on one floor, for example, and who need a fairly small property to be looking after. So, I would like, certainly, to see more bungalows being built, and the ones that were being built yesterday were being built through a housing association, with the specific aim of supporting people to live in those accommodations, as part of their social housing offer within the local area. So, I think that it's important that that's considered by registered social landlords, for example, as they're thinking of their forward work programme, and also by local authorities as they're considering their local housing needs analysis, for example. In terms of priorities and how regional partnership boards will know where to be focusing their efforts, alongside a letter to regional partnership boards today as a result of this statement, we're also issuing programme guidance for this fund. So, there should be no doubt in terms of the minds of regional partnership boards as to where we would want to see that funding deployed. I completely agree that the use of new technologies provides us with real opportunities to support people to live at home for longer, and to monitor people's care needs, and monitor people's health, and so on. That was reflected in some of the answer that I gave to Dai Lloyd. Again, I think building the right homes is also about building communities, and that very much speaks to that point that you made about tackling loneliness and isolation, which we know is becoming a growing concern for many older people, but not exclusively older people, across Wales. So, building homes that are also communities, such as the one we saw yesterday, I think is a wonderful way of being able to tackle that as well. In terms of the groups that this funding is intended to support, those groups are set out through the social services and well-being Act, and they are: older people with complex needs and long-term conditions, including dementia; people with learning disabilities; children with complex needs due to being disabled or illness; and carers and young carers. So, those groups are specifically set out through legislation. We do have a very strong link between the dementia action plan and the regional partnership boards' work. The plan focuses on what service users with dementia and their family members have told us was particularly important to them, for example, timely diagnosis, and then the provision of person-centred care following that diagnosis. The implementation of that plan is being supported by £10 million of Government investment, £9 million of which has been allocated to the regional partnership boards through the integrated care fund mechanism, so aiming to drive forward and enable integrated working between social services, health, housing, the third sector and independent sectors to support people with dementia and their carers. To support this, we have issued addendum ICF guidance that was produced specifically with the dementia action plan in mind.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn ichi am y cwestiynau hynny. Rwy'n falch eich bod wedi dechrau trwy gydnabod ei bod yn bwysig nad ydym yn gweithio mewn seilos yn hyn o beth. Rwy'n credu ei bod yn bwysig bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn dangos arweiniad o ran gallu gweithio ar draws ffiniau traddodiadol, yn enwedig pan fyddwn yn gofyn i awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd i wneud pethau anodd, gan gynnwys cyfuno cyllidebau trwy'r Ddeddf gwasanaethau cymdeithasol a llesiant, a dyna un o swyddogaethau allweddol y byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol, oherwydd bod defnyddio adnoddau yn effeithiol yn flaenoriaeth allweddol i'r byrddau hynny. Bydd y cronfeydd cyfunol hynny a gwell comisiynu integredig yn arwain at fwy o gadernid yn y gwasanaethau a ddarperir, â phwyslais ar wella ansawdd ac nid yn unig ar wella gwerth am arian. Rydym ni wedi cael sicrwydd bod yr holl fyrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol yn darparu rhyw fath o gronfa gyfunol o ran cartrefi gofal i bobl hŷn. Rydym yn awyddus i sicrhau bod cronfeydd cyfunol cyflawn ar waith, sy'n darparu prosesau comisiynu effeithiol ar y cyd erbyn mis Ebrill y flwyddyn nesaf. Ac mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i gwneud yn glir y byddwn yn ystyried ymyrryd yn uniongyrchol os nad yw hynny'n wir. Felly, ydy, mae'n bwysig bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn dangos arweinyddiaeth ac rwy'n credu ein bod wedi gwneud hynny trwy 'Ffyniant i bawb', sy'n cydnabod bod tai a gofal cymdeithasol yn ddwy o'n pum blaenoriaeth draws-Lywodraeth, ac rydym yn cydnabod bod cyfrifoldeb arnom ni i gyd ar draws y Llywodraeth i weithio gyda'n gilydd ar agendâu hyn; yn sicr nid cyfrifoldeb un person i'w gyflawni yw hyn. A ydym ni'n adeiladu digon o fyngalos? Nac ydym, yn bendant dydym ni ddim. Roeddwn i'n falch iawn ddoe yn ymweld â datblygiad newydd ym Maesteg gyda fy nghyd-Aelod, Huw Irranca-Davies. Maen nhw'n adeiladu byngalos newydd yno, ac mae hynny'n hynod o gyffrous, oherwydd, mewn gwirionedd, nid oes digon o fyngalos yn cael eu hadeiladu. Roeddwn i'n siarad â datblygwyr ynghylch pam, a'u bod yn cael eu hystyried yn aml yn eithaf aneffeithlon o ran eu hadeiladu, oherwydd eu bod, fesul metr sgwâr, yn ddrytach i'w hadeiladu na thai eraill. Ond, yn yr un modd, mae byngalos mewn gwirionedd yn diwallu anghenion pobl hŷn sydd angen bod yn byw ar un llawr, er enghraifft, ac sydd angen eiddo eithaf bach i ofalu amdano. Felly, hoffwn i, yn sicr, weld mwy o fyngalos yn cael eu hadeiladu, ac roedd y rhai a oedd yn cael eu hadeiladu ddoe yn cael eu hadeiladu trwy gymdeithas dai, â'r nod penodol o gefnogi pobl i fyw yn y llety hynny, yn rhan o'u cynnig tai cymdeithasol yn yr ardal leol. Felly, rwy'n credu ei bod yn bwysig bod landlordiaid cymdeithasol cofrestredig yn ystyried hynny, er enghraifft, wrth iddyn nhw ystyried eu blaenraglen waith, a hefyd gan awdurdodau lleol wrth iddyn nhw ystyried eu dadansoddiad o anghenion tai lleol, er enghraifft. O ran blaenoriaethau a sut y bydd byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol yn gwybod beth i ganolbwyntio eu hymdrechion arno, ynghyd â llythyr i fyrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol heddiw o ganlyniad i'r datganiad hwn, rydym ni hefyd yn cyhoeddi canllawiau ar y rhaglen ar gyfer y gronfa hon. Felly, ni ddylai fod unrhyw amheuaeth ym meddyliau byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol ynghylch ble yr hoffem ni i'r arian hwnnw gael ei ddefnyddio. Cytunaf yn llwyr fod y defnydd o dechnolegau newydd yn rhoi cyfleoedd gwirioneddol i gefnogi pobl i fyw yn eu cartrefi yn hirach, ac i fonitro anghenion gofal pobl, a monitro iechyd pobl, ac ati. Adlewyrchwyd hynny mewn rhywfaint o'r ateb a roddais i Dai Lloyd. Unwaith eto, rwy'n credu bod adeiladu'r cartrefi iawn hefyd yn ymwneud ag adeiladu cymunedau, ac mae hynny'n ymwneud yn fawr iawn â'r pwynt y gwnaethoch chi am fynd i'r afael ag unigrwydd ac arwahanrwydd, a gwyddom fod hyn yn dod yn destun pryder cynyddol i lawer o bobl hŷn, ond nid pobl hŷn yn unig, ledled Cymru. Felly, mae adeiladu cartrefi sydd hefyd yn gymunedau, fel yr un y gwelais i ddoe, yn ffordd wych yn fy marn i o allu mynd i'r afael â hynny hefyd. O ran y grwpiau y mae'r cyllid hwn yn bwriadu eu cefnogi, nodir y grwpiau hynny trwy'r Ddeddf gwasanaethau cymdeithasol a llesiant, sef: pobl hŷn ag anghenion cymhleth a chyflyrau hirdymor, gan gynnwys dementia; pobl ag anableddau dysgu; plant ag anghenion cymhleth oherwydd anabledd neu salwch; a gofalwyr a gofalwyr ifanc. Felly, mae'r grwpiau hynny wedi'u nodi'n benodol trwy ddeddfwriaeth. Mae gennym ni gysylltiad cryf iawn rhwng y cynllun gweithredu ar ddementia a gwaith y byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol. Mae'r cynllun yn canolbwyntio ar beth y mae defnyddwyr gwasanaeth â dementia ac aelodau o'u teulu wedi'i ddweud wrthym ni sy'n arbennig o bwysig iddyn nhw, er enghraifft, diagnosis amserol, ac wedyn darparu gofal sy'n canolbwyntio ar yr unigolyn yn dilyn y diagnosis hwnnw. Cefnogir gweithrediad y cynllun hwnnw gan £10 miliwn o fuddsoddiad y Llywodraeth, ac mae £9 miliwn o hwn wedi'i ddyrannu i'r byrddau partneriaeth rhanbarthol trwy'r gronfa gofal integredig, felly'r nod yw dwyn ymlaen a galluogi gwaith integredig rhwng gwasanaethau cymdeithasol, iechyd, tai, y trydydd sector a'r sectorau annibynnol i gefnogi pobl â dementia a'u gofalwyr. I gefnogi hyn, rydym ni wedi cyhoeddi canllawiau ar y gronfa gofal integredig atodiad a luniwyd yn benodol â golwg ar y cynllun gweithredu ar ddementia.