First Minister’s Questions
Care Home Standards

Janet Finch-Saunders
The number of care homes in Wales failing to provide for more than the most basic of older people’s needs and the total disregard for their personal identities and individuality made reading Sarah Rochira’s report incredibly alarming. First Minister, do you agree with the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales that the findings of this report show that too many of today’s care home residents are now sadly becoming institutionalised? What assurances will you give that the findings in this report will be acted upon and that the excellent work by the older people’s commissioner will go forward and influence future policy and legislation in order to protect our most vulnerable and certainly our older people in society?

Carwyn Jones The First Minister
I would argue that that is already in effect with the task and finish group and the White Paper, through which there will be an opportunity for Members to strengthen the regulatory and inspection regime to make sure that there is greater consistency in the sector