English: Can I thank the Minister for this statement? A most important area of public policy, I'm sure we all agree. The housing support grant has been welcomed by many in this sector, and I note the intention to drive forward more effective public spending through more integrated and strategic approaches, and I look forward to a full assessment of this approach, because it obviously was quite controversial when it was originally proposed. But I do think that getting maximum value from the Welsh pound is a very, very important principle. I note a recent report by Community Housing Cymru, Cymorth Cymru and Welsh Women's Aid, and it states that, by their calculation, over 60,000 people are helped at the moment through this grant to avoid homelessness, escape abuse, to live supported in their own homes and to thrive in their communities. That does give you, I think, an indication of how important this grant scheme is. However, those organisations have also stressed the level of demand and need, and call for increased expenditure indeed on the housing support grant to, and I quote, 'deliver person centred, trauma informed services'. I was pleased to note that the Minister used that language about the trauma-informed approach when making this statement. I think the new guidance does emphasise the need for integration and collaboration to achieve a co-produced homelessness strategy. I know my colleague Mark Isherwood has pursued this issue that we've got to involve the whole sector in designing an effective strategy, and co-production is key to that. So, again, we do welcome that as part of the approach. I do think the Welsh Government falls short of a full housing first approach to end homelessness; though, obviously, that model can be explored through the grant. But I think we do need that systematic examination of what we're going to do to end homelessness. Just last week we had, as a result of the latest survey, an indication that rough sleeping has increased. I welcome the fact that we're trying to improve the data, incidentally, because we didn't necessarily have a very clear picture before, but again I think we can all agree that we're a long way from really making the transformation that we want to see in terms of preventing homelessness. So, we're giving a cautious welcome to the approach, but I do think that we need a homelessness tsar, and I think we need the local authorities, when they're producing their homelessness strategies, to set targets to end homelessness, and follow the example set by Manchester, where Andy Burnham, the mayor, has led with this approach, setting a realistic target - an ambitious target also, but not one that's tomorrow. But I do think it's that concentration that we need to bring to this most pressing problem, because some of the most vulnerable people in society then end up, in addition to that vulnerability, being rough sleepers, and many more obviously are in very fragile housing conditions and are homeless. This really is not something we should tolerate in a modern society.
Welsh: A gaf i ddiolch i'r Gweinidog am y datganiad hwn? Maes polisi cyhoeddus pwysig iawn, rwy'n siŵr ein bod i gyd yn cytuno. Mae'r grant cymorth tai wedi'i groesawu gan lawer yn y sector hwn, a nodaf y bwriad i wario arian cyhoeddus yn fwy effeithiol drwy ddulliau mwy integredig a strategol, ac edrychaf ymlaen at asesiad llawn o'r dull hwn, gan ei fod yn amlwg yn eithaf dadleuol pan gynigiwyd ef yn wreiddiol. Ond rwyf yn credu bod cael y gwerth mwyaf posib o'r bunt Gymreig yn egwyddor bwysig iawn. Sylwaf ar adroddiad diweddar gan Cartrefi Cymunedol Cymru, Cymorth Cymru a Cymorth i Ferched Cymru, ac mae'n datgan bod dros 60,000 o bobl yn cael cymorth ar hyn o bryd, yn ôl eu cyfrifiad nhw, drwy'r grant hwn er mwyn osgoi digartrefedd, dianc rhag camdriniaeth, byw â chymorth yn eu cartrefi eu hunain a ffynnu yn eu cymunedau. Mae hynny yn rhoi syniad ichi, rwy'n credu, o ba mor bwysig yw'r cynllun grant hwn. Fodd bynnag, mae'r sefydliadau hynny hefyd wedi pwysleisio maint y galw a'r angen, ac yn galw am fwy o wario yn wir ar y grant cymorth tai er mwyn, ac rwy'n dyfynnu: darparu gwasanaethau sy'n canolbwyntio ar yr unigolyn, ac yn seiliedig ar drawma. Roeddwn yn falch o sylwi bod y Gweinidog wedi defnyddio'r iaith honno ynglŷn â'r dull sy'n seiliedig ar drawma wrth wneud y datganiad hwn. Rwy'n credu bod y canllawiau newydd yn pwysleisio'r angen am integreiddio a chydweithio i gyflawni strategaeth digartrefedd wedi'i chydgynhyrchu. Rwy'n gwybod fod fy nghyd-Aelod Mark Isherwood wedi mynd ar drywydd y mater hwn, sef bod yn rhaid i ni gynnwys y sector cyfan wrth lunio strategaeth effeithiol, ac mae cydgynhyrchu'n allweddol i hynny. Felly, unwaith eto, rydym yn croesawu hynny yn rhan o'r dull gweithredu. Nid wyf yn credu bod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyrraedd y nod o ran dull gweithredu tai yn gyntaf llawn ar gyfer rhoi terfyn ar ddigartrefedd; er, yn amlwg, gellir archwilio'r model hwnnw drwy'r grant. Ond rwy'n credu bod angen yr archwiliad systematig hwn o'r hyn yr ydym ni'n mynd i'w wneud i ddod â digartrefedd i ben. Dim ond yr wythnos diwethaf, o ganlyniad i'r arolwg diweddaraf, cawsom arwydd bod achosion o gysgu allan wedi cynyddu. Rwy'n croesawu'r ffaith ein bod yn ceisio gwella'r data, gyda llaw, gan nad oedd gennym ni ddarlun clir iawn o'r blaen, ond unwaith eto rwy'n credu y gallwn ni i gyd gytuno ein bod ni ymhell o lwyddo i wneud y trawsnewidiad yr ydym eisiau ei weld o ran atal digartrefedd. Felly, rydym ni'n rhoi croeso gofalus i'r dull gweithredu, ond rwy'n credu bod angen tsar digartrefedd, ac rwy'n credu bod angen i'r awdurdodau lleol, pan fyddant yn llunio eu strategaethau digartrefedd, osod targedau i ddod â digartrefedd i ben, a dilyn yr esiampl a osodwyd gan Manceinion, lle mae Andy Burnham, y maer, wedi arwain gyda'r dull hwn, gan osod targed realistig - targed uchelgeisiol hefyd, ond nid un i'w gyflawni yfory. Ond rwyf yn credu bod angen inni ganolbwyntio yn y modd yna ar y broblem ddybryd hon, gan fod rhai o'r bobl fwyaf agored i niwed mewn cymdeithas yn y diwedd, yn ogystal â'r gwendid hwnnw, yn cysgu allan, ac yn amlwg mae llawer mwy mewn tai lle mae amodau simsan iawn neu yn ddigartref. Yn wir, nid yw hyn yn rhywbeth y dylem ei oddef mewn cymdeithas fodern.