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Vaughan Gething AM, Minister for Health and Social Services

Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services

Jo-Anne Daniels, Director of Mental Health, Vulnerable Groups & NHS Governance

Albert Heaney, Director of Social Services and Integration

Professor Jean White, Chief Nursing Officer

3.1 The Committee scrutinised the Minister and Deputy Minister on the Welsh Government draft budget.

3.2 The Minister and Deputy Minister agreed to provide in writing, following the session, the information below:

• an update on the Welsh Government’s findings from its exploratory work with the Future Generations Commissioner’s Office to explore Social Impact Bonds as an outcomes-based investment model to reduce entry into care for Looked After Children, once that work is completed;  
• confirmation of where exactly in this year’s Strategic Integrated Impact Assessment there is detail about the “clear consideration of the impact of budgetary decisions on children’s rights” referred to in the Welsh Government’s written evidence for this session; 
• a list of projects that are receiving funding under the childcare offer for co-located Foundation Phase and Childcare Offer provision;   
• a copy of the letter issued to Play Wales outlining the remit associated with its funding in the last financial year, and an indication of what will be expected to be delivered from the funding it is allocated in the Draft Budget 2020-21; 
• further details of the purposes for which the Welsh Government has allocated £2.3 million in its Draft Budget 2020-21 to local authorities for adoption services, and further detail about its response to concerns raised by Adoption UK Wales about the impact on support services of its unsuccessful bid for Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant funding for 2020-21.