English: As with the other recommendations in this report, this role has been supported and endorsed by the armed forces community and armed service heads. The report calls for the Welsh Government to establish key performance indicators for devolved public sector organisations in Wales to monitor adherence to the covenant; to supplement its Welcome to Wales initiative with a single national armed forces helpline for service personnel, veterans and their families; to work with a ministerial expert group to identify priority projects and co-ordinate funding bids at an all-Wales level; and work with the third sector to deliver a compulsory public sector e-learning module to support awareness of the armed forces covenant. The report recommends that the Welsh Government should continue to work with both the UK Government and the Office for National Statistics to ensure that the questions in the 2021 census are sufficient to identify both the size and needs of the armed forces and veteran community in Wales. It calls on the Welsh Government to establish a Welsh armed forces privilege card scheme. Given the concerns over the capacity of Veterans NHS Wales to meet the demands of patients and its variable waiting times, the report recommended that funding for the service should be reviewed and increased; targets for access to the service should be established, and performance against the targets should be regularly published. Waiting lists for Veterans NHS Wales are nine months in the Swansea area and average five to six months elsewhere. Although they've secured three years' extra funding from Help for Heroes to employ three full-time therapists to bring waiting lists down, they expect waiting times to rise again without additional investment. Although the Welsh Government has announced £100,000 additional funding, Veterans NHS Wales told the cross-party group last year that they need £1 million annually to meet the mental health needs of the armed forces community in Wales, and therefore reduce pressure and cost on other services. When Andrew R. T. Davies and I met a group of women veterans earlier this year, all of whom had suffered injuries on service, and all of whom told us that they were also dealing with mental health issues as a consequence of their service, they told us that, quote, 'It's now taking three months to get an appointment with Veterans NHS Wales, and then three to six months to see a specialist, who can then only deal with mild to medium trauma, because there are no acute services.' And they're having to travel to England for treatment for their mental health and rely on charities. The report also called on the Welsh Government to develop an action plan to promote greater awareness of priority NHS treatment for service-related injuries and illnesses amongst health service staff; to ensure that family members of service personnel posted to Wales who are on an NHS waiting list are not disadvantaged by having to wait longer for treatment than they would prior to being posted to Wales; to review and update the 'A guide to improving the health and well-being of prisoners in Wales who are veterans' document; and to provide core funding to third sector partners delivering peer mentoring schemes. Although Change Step, led by the charity Cais, has secured 12 months' funding from Help for Heroes to embed a peer mentor into each Welsh health board, Veterans NHS Wales highlights the need for additional funding to keep the peer mentors in post as part of their core team, to mirror the Scottish veteran model. In 2007, the Legion's Honour the Covenant campaign already noted that veterans who are not assisted by Ministry of Defence-supported Combat Stress, or another specialist organisation, need to be able to access mental health care and receive priority treatment. With the announcement that Combat Stress is scrapping residential care at its Audley Court centre in Shropshire, we must also address concerns that Welsh veterans will now be forced to travel across the UK for residential care, because there is no provision in Wales. In recognition of the specific challenges faced by children from service families, and in order to address the disadvantage compared to other parts of the UK, the report recommended that the Welsh Government should consider the introduction of a service pupil premium. As the Royal British Legion states, in England, this has provided important practical support to service children in education. Schools in Wales should have access to a similar fund for the approximately 2,500 children who currently attend schools in Wales. The report also calls for regional education consortia to appoint armed forces champions; flexibility for Welsh secondary schools to allow the children of service personnel to be enrolled mid term, as is already the case for infant classes; and more schools to participate in the cadet expansion programme. The report recommends extension of the successful Cymru'n Cofio Wales Remembers first world war project to enable other important military anniversaries to be marked. And it calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Welsh Local Government Association to ensure that all of Wales's civic war memorials are adequately maintained, and with Wales's military museums to establish travelling exhibitions. The report calls for development of further partnerships between registered social landlords and the third sector to support additional supported housing accommodation for vulnerable veterans in Wales, and for registered social landlords to waive local connection requirements for former partners of service personnel leaving service family accommodation. Finally, the report calls for the Welsh Government to establish an employment scheme to assist service leavers, veterans and reservists, and support the partners of service personnel when their partners are posted to Wales. For the second year running, the Welsh Government has said that it is developing an employment pathway, but Veterans NHS Wales figures show that only a third are employed. One hundred years after the signing of the treaty that led to the end of the first world war, this is a covenant that must endure.
Welsh: Fel gydag argymhellion eraill yn yr adroddiad hwn, cafodd y rôl hon ei chefnogi gan gymuned y lluoedd arfog a phenaethiaid y lluoedd arfog. Mae'r adroddiad yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i sefydlu dangosyddion perfformiad allweddol ar gyfer sefydliadau sector cyhoeddus datganoledig yng Nghymru i fonitro ymlyniad wrth y cyfamod; ategu ei menter Croeso i Gymru gydag un linell gymorth genedlaethol ar gyfer aelodau o'r lluoedd arfog, cyn-filwyr a'u teuluoedd; gweithio gyda grŵp arbenigol y Gweinidog i nodi prosiectau â blaenoriaeth a chydlynu cynigion cyllido ar lefel Cymru gyfan; a gweithio gyda'r trydydd sector i gyflwyno modiwl e-ddysgu gorfodol ar gyfer y sector cyhoeddus i gefnogi ymwybyddiaeth o gyfamod y lluoedd arfog. Mae'r adroddiad yn argymell y dylai Llywodraeth Cymru barhau i weithio gyda Llywodraeth y DU a'r Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol i sicrhau bod y cwestiynau yng nghyfrifiad 2021 yn ddigonol i ganfod maint ac anghenion cymuned y lluoedd arfog a chyn-filwyr yng Nghymru. Mae'n galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i sefydlu cynllun cerdyn braint i luoedd arfog Cymru. O gofio'r pryderon ynghylch capasiti GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr i ateb gofynion cleifion a'i amseroedd aros amrywiol, argymhellodd yr adroddiad y dylid adolygu a chynyddu cyllid ar gyfer y gwasanaeth; dylid sefydlu targedau ar gyfer mynediad at y gwasanaeth, a dylid cyhoeddi perfformiad yn erbyn y targedau'n rheolaidd. Mae rhestrau aros ar gyfer GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr yng Nghymru yn naw mis yn ardal Abertawe ac yn bum i chwe mis ar gyfartaledd mewn mannau eraill. Er iddynt sicrhau cyllid ychwanegol am dair blynedd gan Help for Heroes i gyflogi tri therapydd amser llawn i leihau rhestrau aros, maent yn disgwyl i amseroedd aros gynyddu eto heb fuddsoddiad ychwanegol. Er bod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyhoeddi £100,000 o gyllid ychwanegol, dywedodd GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr wrth y grŵp trawsbleidiol y llynedd fod arnynt angen £1 miliwn bob blwyddyn i ateb anghenion iechyd meddwl cymuned y lluoedd arfog yng Nghymru, a lleihau pwysau a chostau i wasanaethau eraill. Pan gyfarfu Andrew R. T. Davies a minnau â grŵp o gyn-filwyr benywaidd yn gynharach eleni, lle'r oedd pob un ohonynt wedi dioddef anafiadau wrth wasanaethu, a phob un ohonynt hefyd yn dweud eu bod yn ymdopi â phroblemau iechyd meddwl o ganlyniad i'w gwasanaeth, dywedodd y cyn-filwyr wrthym ei bod bellach, ac rwy'n dyfynnu, 'yn cymryd tri mis i gael apwyntiad gyda GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr, a thri i chwe mis wedyn i weld arbenigwr, sydd ond yn gallu ymdrin â thrawma ysgafn i ganolig, am nad oes unrhyw wasanaethau acíwt.' Ac maent yn gorfod teithio i Loegr i gael triniaeth ar gyfer eu hiechyd meddwl ac yn dibynnu ar elusennau. Roedd yr adroddiad hefyd yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddatblygu cynllun gweithredu i hyrwyddo mwy o ymwybyddiaeth ymhlith staff y gwasanaeth iechyd o driniaeth flaenoriaethol y GIG ar gyfer anafiadau a salwch sy'n gysylltiedig â gwasanaethu; sicrhau nad yw aelodau o deuluoedd y lluoedd arfog sy'n cael eu hanfon i Gymru ac sydd ar restr aros y GIG dan anfantais drwy orfod aros yn hwy am driniaeth nag y byddent cyn cael eu hanfon i Gymru; adolygu a diweddaru'r canllaw i wella iechyd a lles carcharorion yng Nghymru sy'n gyn-filwyr; a darparu cyllid craidd i bartneriaid trydydd sector sy'n darparu cynlluniau mentora cymheiriaid. Er bod Change Step, sy'n cael ei arwain gan yr elusen Cais, wedi cael sicrwydd o gyllid am 12 mis gan Help for Heroes i ymgorffori mentor cymheiriaid ym mhob bwrdd iechyd yng Nghymru, mae GIG Cymru i Gyn-filwyr yn tynnu sylw at yr angen am arian ychwanegol i gadw'r mentoriaid cymheiriaid yn eu swyddi fel rhan o'u tîm craidd, i adlewyrchu model cyn-filwyr yr Alban. Yn 2007, roedd ymgyrch Anrhydeddu'r Cyfamod y Lleng Brydeinig eisoes wedi nodi bod angen i gyn-filwyr nad ydynt yn cael cymorth gan Combat Stress a gefnogir gan y Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn, neu gan gorff arbenigol arall, allu cael mynediad at ofal iechyd meddwl a chael triniaeth flaenoriaethol. Gyda'r cyhoeddiad bod Combat Stress yn dileu gofal preswyl yn eu canolfan Audley Court yn swydd Amwythig, rhaid inni hefyd ymdrin â phryderon y bydd cyn-filwyr Cymru bellach yn gorfod teithio ar draws y DU i gael gofal preswyl, am nad oes unrhyw ddarpariaeth yng Nghymru. Wrth gydnabod yr heriau penodol a wynebir gan blant teuluoedd y lluoedd arfog, ac er mwyn mynd i'r afael â'r anfantais o'i gymharu â rhannau eraill o'r DU, argymhellodd yr adroddiad y dylai Llywodraeth Cymru ystyried cyflwyno premiwm disgybl lluoedd arfog. Fel y mae'r Lleng Brydeinig Frenhinol yn dweud, yn Lloegr, mae hwn wedi darparu cymorth ymarferol pwysig i blant y lluoedd arfog mewn addysg. Dylai ysgolion yng Nghymru gael mynediad at gronfa debyg ar gyfer yr oddeutu 2,500 o blant sy'n mynychu ysgolion yng Nghymru ar hyn o bryd. Mae'r adroddiad hefyd yn galw ar gonsortia addysg rhanbarthol i benodi hyrwyddwyr y lluoedd arfog; hyblygrwydd i ysgolion uwchradd Cymru ganiatáu i blant aelodau'r lluoedd arfog gael eu cofrestru ar ganol tymor, fel sydd eisoes yn digwydd mewn dosbarthiadau babanod; a mwy o ysgolion i gymryd rhan yn rhaglen ehangu'r cadetiaid. Mae'r adroddiad yn argymell ymestyn y prosiect rhyfel byd cyntaf llwyddiannus, Cymru'n Cofio, er mwyn ei gwneud hi'n bosibl nodi penblwyddi milwrol pwysig eraill. Ac mae'n galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i weithio gyda Chymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru i sicrhau bod holl gofebau rhyfel dinesig Cymru yn cael eu cynnal a'u cadw'n ddigon da, a chydag amgueddfeydd milwrol Cymru i sefydlu arddangosfeydd teithiol. Mae'r adroddiad yn galw am ddatblygu partneriaethau pellach rhwng landlordiaid cymdeithasol cofrestredig a'r trydydd sector i gefnogi tai â chymorth ychwanegol ar gyfer cyn-filwyr sy'n agored i niwed yng Nghymru, ac am i landlordiaid cymdeithasol cofrestredig hepgor gofynion am brawf cysylltiadau lleol i gyn-bartneriaid aelodau o'r lluoedd arfog sy'n gadael llety i deuluoedd y lluoedd arfog. Yn olaf, mae'r adroddiad yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i sefydlu cynllun cyflogaeth i gynorthwyo pobl sy'n gadael y lluoedd arfog, cyn-filwyr a milwyr wrth gefn, a chefnogi partneriaid personél y lluoedd arfog wrth i'w partneriaid gael eu hanfon i Gymru. Am yr ail flwyddyn yn olynol, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dweud ei bod yn datblygu llwybr cyflogaeth, ond mae ffigurau GIG Cymru i gyn-filwyr yn dangos mai traean yn unig sy'n cael eu cyflogi. Gan mlynedd ar ôl llofnodi'r cytundeb a arweiniodd at ddiwedd y rhyfel byd cyntaf, mae'n rhaid i'r cyfamod hwn barhau.