Plenary

 

Meeting date:
Tuesday, 10 June 2014

 

Meeting time:
13.30

 

 

 

 

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1 Questions to the First Minister (45 mins)

The Presiding Officer will call the Party Leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2.

 

View Questions

 

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2 Business Statement and Announcement (30 mins)

 

View Business Statement and Announcement

 

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3 Statement by the Minister for Housing and Regeneration: The Role of Vibrant and Viable Places in Addressing the Tackling Poverty Agenda (30 mins)

 

Supporting Documents

 

The Vibrant and Viable Places Regeneration Framework   

Vibrant and Viable Places Stage 2 Assessment Process Report  

 

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4 Statement by the Minister for Natural Resources and Food: Tackling Fuel Poverty through Energy Efficiency (30 mins)

Supporting Documents

 

Fuel Poverty Strategy

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5 Statement by the Minister for Education and Skills: A National Model of Professional Learning (45 mins)

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6 Debate: Improving Mental Health (60 mins)

NDM5521 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

 

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

Notes Welsh Government action to improve mental health and well-being in Wales.

 

The following amendments have been tabled:

 

Amendment 1 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

 

Add as new point at end of motion:

 

Notes that the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Follow-up Review of Safety Issues 2013, found that “children and young people continue to be put at risk due to inappropriate admissions to adult mental health wards” and calls on the Welsh Government to establish a firmer procedure for health boards to report on inappropriate placements on adult mental health wards.

 

The ‘Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Follow-up Review of Safety Issues (11 December 2013)’ is available at: https://www.wao.gov.uk/system/files/publications/CAMHS_English_2013.pdf

 

Amendment 2 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

 

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Calls on the Welsh Government to introduce a national framework to ensure continuity of treatment in the transition between Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to Adult Mental Health Services, including a streamlined information sharing system between providers.

 

Amendment 3 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)

 

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Recognises the need to improve transitional arrangements for those moving from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to Adult Mental Health services.

 

Amendment 4 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)

 

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Notes the Welsh Government’s commitment to ring-fencing spending on mental health services in Wales and calls for improved monitoring arrangements by local health boards to ensure that this commitment is met.

 

Amendment 5 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)

 

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Notes the links between poor mental health and well-being and adverse economic, social, environmental and other factors, and calls for improved collaboration between the NHS and local authorities to tackle these.

 

Amendment 6 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)

 

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Notes that the Royal College of Psychiatrists have identified serious problems as a result of bed shortages in acute care, and notes that these shortages could result in inappropriate use of police cells.

 

Amendment 7 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)

 

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Recognises the importance of community based mental health services, and regrets the continuing problems in accessing these services.

 

Amendment 8 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)

 

Add as new point at end of motion:

 

Regrets that waiting times for child and adolescent mental health services have deteriorated significantly over the past year.

 

Amendment 9 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)

 

Add as new point at end of motion:

 

Calls on the Welsh Government to carry out a review of the Eating Disorder Framework.

 

The Eating Disorder Framework is available at:

 

http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dhss/publications/090703eatingdisorderframeworken.pdf

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Voting Time

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The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Wednesday, 11 June 2014

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