The bill, introduced by assembly member and deputy minister for social services Gwenda Thomas, will provide greater consistency and clarity to people who use social services, their carers, local authority staff and their partner organisations, along with the courts and the judiciary.
This has to be one of the biggest and most complex pieces of legislation to go through the National Assembly for Wales. After a lengthy process and some tough scrutiny, it was particularly pleasing to see the due regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted in the final bill.
The UN Convention centres on the particular vulnerabilities of children, which should always be reflected in legislation and policy. So I will be keeping a close eye on the way in which the new safeguards put in place, in terms of regulation, guidance and the eligibility criteria, are implemented at the grassroots level in Wales. We need to ensure that we provide the same offer to children and young people as we do for adults.
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