English: Dai, thank you very much, and on that very important point, I think this is why, curiously, the work in the adoption sector doesn't stand totally isolated from the wider issue of looked-after children and improving outcomes for all children. I think, in all of that wide piste of work, of paramount importance and statutorily underpinned, as well, by our belief in the rights of the child, is that the child comes first. He and I will sometimes, as all Assembly Members do, have some challenging conversations with birth parents who will say, 'Well, the best interests of the child are for them to be with me,' and yet the multi-agency professional advice is: 'Whilst we sympathise with the parents, actually the best place is somewhere else.' Sometimes, however, it is the other way, and with the right therapeutic support, with the right interventions wrapping around the family, solutions can be found where, safely, they can be retained in that family setting, with often quite intensive additional support, but it has to be in the best interests of the child. And that, curiously, is where the work beyond adoption but actually within the ministerial advisory group and the work streams that they have set in front of them, including one, which is - . In fact, their first work stream, probably, at the moment is safely reducing the numbers of children who come into looked-after care, but it's also the quality for those children who are then within care. But adoption provides, we know, with the right support in place, a very, very good route into family life - with the right support in place, a very good return to family life, and something that can have a lasting and profound influence on that child and young person's development. In celebrating this week, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, it's heartening to see the success we are having, not only in increasing the numbers coming through, but also that those adoptions are largely successful - despite tribulations, very often, with children and young people with traumatic incidents in earlier life, who still need therapeutic interventions to help, and the family will need support as well. But it works, and people work through this. Like him - he used the words that he stands 'in awe' of those people who go on this journey. Actually, many of them who go on this journey, they get so much out of it as well, but I equally stand in awe because of the challenge of doing this. No child being brought up is easy, but actually saying, 'We're going to take a child that we know is coming to us with complex issues that we're going to have to work through for years and years', and to do it, well, it is quite breathtaking. But, we want lots more people to come forward and do it as well.
Welsh: Dai, diolch yn fawr iawn, ac ar y pwynt pwysig iawn hwnnw, credaf mai dyma pam, yn rhyfedd iawn, nad yw'r gwaith yn y sector mabwysiadu yn gwbl ar wahân i'r mater ehangach o ran plant sy'n derbyn gofal, a gwella canlyniadau ar gyfer pob plentyn. Rwy'n credu, yn y gwaith eang iawn hwn, mai'r hyn sydd fwyaf pwysig ac y mae cefnogaeth statudol iddo, hefyd, yn seiliedig ar ein cred mewn hawliau plant, yw mai'r plentyn sy'n dod yn gyntaf. Bydd ef a minnau weithiau, fel holl Aelodau'r Cynulliad, yn cael rhai sgyrsiau heriol â rhieni genedigol a fydd yn dweud, 'Wel, y lles gorau i'r plentyn fydd iddo aros gyda mi', ac eto y cyngor proffesiynol aml-asiantaeth yw: 'er ein bod yn cydymdeimlo â'r rhieni, y lle gorau mewn gwirionedd, yw rhywle arall.' Weithiau, fodd bynnag, mae hi fel arall, a chyda'r gefnogaeth therapiwtig gywir, yr ymyriadau cywir ar waith gyda'r teulu, gellir canfod atebion ble gellir, yn ddiogel, eu cadw yn y teulu, yn aml gyda chymorth ychwanegol eithaf dwys, ond mae'n rhaid bod hyn er budd pennaf y plentyn. Ac, yn rhyfedd iawn, dyna ble y mae gwaith y tu hwnt i fabwysiadu ond mewn gwirionedd o fewn y grŵp cynghori, a'r ffrydiau gwaith y maen nhw wedi eu gosod o'u blaenau, gan gynnwys un, sef - . Mewn gwirionedd, eu prif ffrwd waith ar hyn o bryd, mae'n debyg, yw lleihau'n ddiogel nifer y plant sy'n dod yn blant sy'n derbyn gofal, ond mae hefyd ynglŷn â'r ansawdd ar gyfer y plant hynny sy'n derbyn gofal. Ond mae mabwysiadu yn cynnig, rydym yn gwybod, gyda'r cymorth cywir yn ei le, ffordd dda iawn i mewn i fywyd teuluol - gyda'r cymorth cywir yn ei le, ffordd dda iawn o ddychwelyd i fywyd teuluol, a hefyd rhywbeth sy'n gallu cael dylanwad parhaus a dwfn ar ddatblygiad plant a phobl ifanc. Drwy ddathlu'r wythnos hon, fel y soniais yn fy sylwadau agoriadol, mae'n galonogol gweld y llwyddiant yr ydym yn ei gael yn cynyddu'r niferoedd, ond hefyd bod yr achosion hynny o fabwysiadu yn llwyddiannus i raddau helaeth - er gwaethaf y trallod, yn aml iawn, gyda phlant a phobl ifanc sydd wedi profi digwyddiadau trawmatig yn gynharach mewn bywyd, sy'n dal i fod angen ymyriadau therapiwtig i helpu, a bydd angen cymorth ar y teulu hefyd. Ond mae'n gweithio, ac mae pobl yn gweithio drwy hyn. Fel yntau - a defnyddiodd y geiriau hynny ei fod 'yn llawn parch' tuag at y bobl hynny sy'n mynd ar y daith hon. Mewn gwirionedd, mae llawer ohonyn nhw sy'n mynd ar y daith hon, yn cael gymaint allan ohono hefyd, ond rwyf hefyd yn llawn parch oherwydd yr her o wneud hyn. Nid yw'n hawdd magu unrhyw blentyn, ond mewn gwirionedd i ddweud, 'rydym ni'n mynd i gymryd plentyn y gwyddom ei fod yn dod atom ni â phroblemau cymhleth, y byddwn ni'n gorfod gweithio drwyddyn nhw am flynyddoedd lawer' ac i wneud hynny, wel, mae'n eithaf syfrdanol. Ond, rydym ni eisiau i lawer mwy o bobl ddod ymlaen a gwneud hynny hefyd.