 Rwy'n groes i'r cynnwys i'r cymmer o bobl, fel y cymysgol a'r cyrraff mwy o'r cyfwyr yn cyd-agwyd. Mae'r cymdweithbeth yn ôl, i weld rydym yn gweithio ar gwaith o'r cair. Er bod, fe fyw derbyn o'r cyfwyr, mae'r cyfwyr yn fwy o'r cyfwyr yn y mynd i gaeliaeth i'r cair. Mae'r cair yn cyffwyr yn cyfwyr sy'n cyfrifun o'r cyfrifwyr yn cynnwys o ffodol i'r cair ielau rocksawl o'r cyfwyr. Support mixture for the domestic family. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put by the last members who wish to participate to press the request to speak button or place an hour in the chat function if they are joining us online now or as soon as possible. I call on Mr Waitfield to open the debate for around seven minutes. I am very grateful, Deputy Presiding Officer, and it is a great pleasure to present this debate today. I think that in the terms of a holistic family support cyddiwyd y mynd i gynnwys yma, ac mae'n ddweud yn gyflawn i fynd i dweud i'r ysgolwyddoedd y taeth yn y byd. Fy fydd yn ddweud yn y Cymru 18 o'r ddweud. Rwy'n credu'r ddweud o'r cwmffinol yw'r cwmffinol, ond mae'n cyddu i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gyfan o'r peth yn gyflawn i'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r brosesol by the original enactment, the original wording. Talked about state parties should render appropriate assistance to parents and legal guardians in the performance of their childcare responsibilities and should ensure the development of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children and young people. of institutions, facilities and services for the care of children and young people. It is so much broader than the right to be brought up by both parents, if possible, but in no way undermines that fundamental importance that, for most of society, viewing a young person growing up with both parents is important. That is a provision that is not available to all parents and is not the experience of all children. It is not to lessen the experience of those children who, for circumstances, do not grow up in an environment with both parents. It is to those children as well that we must look, which is why I drew attention to the original wording and the responsibility that rests, frankly, on all of us to make sure that every young person's life, every experience, every opportunity can be provided. It is not something that happens for every child, but an adequate holistic family support offers innumible help to the countless families that can be provided for. We look to the promise that was made in the recent past, which speaks so optimistically of what our young people should experience. However, I pose this question not as a criticism, but are we committed to keeping the promise to children and families, the promise that all children will grow up loved, safe and respected in Scotland? If we are, then we have to acknowledge that the work underway so far is not sufficient. The work that has begun is good, but it is not enough. I would like to express my thanks to the coalition of care and support providers in Scotland and the various groups that support that. Particularly, I would like to thank children's first action for children, Abilol and Bernardo's. I would like to thank them because of what their volunteers and staff do. I would like to thank them for what they have done on the face with young people and families to make their lives better. Because family support looks different for every family. That is important. What works for one family at number six will not work for a different family at number seven. However, those in the CCPS understand that that tailored support, right and fit for the individual family and young people that sit before them, is so essential. It could be something massive. It could be financial problems with poverty, because poverty lies at the heart of so much of the troubles. It might be physical or mental health problems. It might actually just be sitting down with a cup of tea and having a chat and letting someone bend a few of the stresses of the day off so that when they turn to their children and offer the empathy and care that the children need to develop properly, the parents or the carers can give that. I am more than happy to. I just wanted to intervene in the motion today to mention the work of the Health, Social Care and Sports Committee, which took really strong evidence from exactly the groups that Martin was speaking about. I have one very specific thing that I wondered if the member could respond to. A professional OT raised the fact that, for some children, access to physical and leisure activities is often very expensive and can be often far away and that that may help in their recovery as a family. I wondered if the member and indeed the minister might respond to that. I am very grateful for that intervention. Of course, the member rightly points out that what would work for one individual child may not be suitable for another child but should be facilitated, be it the free swims that I know local authorities organise sometimes during the holidays. I know and think of all of the volunteers that run sporting clubs that sometimes when the child is stood there unable to pay that week's contribution just smiles and pushes them through anyway, because there is a humanity, there is an empathy and there is an understanding, not just here in Scotland but I think within the human race, that we need to go further and better for our young people. Family support seeks to intervene to help and advise at early levels of concern, provide advice to parents and mental health support, finance, debt help, support to families experiencing homelessness, addiction and loss and a great number of other issues that families face. It is preventative work. If this work happens at the start of a crisis then frankly if you want to be an economist or an accountant the cost is less, if you want to be a human being it is so much easier to put right, it does so much less long-term damage and it allows children perhaps to escape a horrendous experience that would stay with them for their rest of their life. Not only does early intervention lead to better outcomes for our children and young people but as I say it makes sense economically. But the fact is that where we are today within this Covid pandemic, the problem pre-existed that. Many many families were struggling long long before Covid-19 and we need to make sure that our interventions and our work can help these children as soon as possible. I welcome the commitment by the Scottish Government to deliver a whole family well being funded £500 million over the course of this parliamentary session but I call again for an urgent action plan to outline whole family well being fund, how will it be invested, how will it be implemented. It is necessary in order to make the right to the whole family holistic support a practical and accessible reality for families that is consistently available across this country including my own south of Scotland region so I'd ask for confirmation within that £500 million pounds how much of that is new money and how much is it of a coming together of pre-existing pre-announced pops of money and I would also ask for a commitment and this I bring from those who have sent out information about this for a commitment to a multi-year funding so that they can plan ahead and move forward. Families and individuals should sit at the heart of our decisions, they should sit at the heart of the solutions that comes to them and they should sit at the table when these decisions are made. If we claim in this house, if we claim in this country to champion the rights of the child, then we must champion holistic family support. Thank you Deputy Presiding Officer. Thank you very much indeed Mr Workfield. You now move to the open debate. I call Rona Mackay to be followed by Oliver Mundell for around four minutes Mr Mackay. Thank you Presiding Officer. Can I thank Martin Whatfield for bringing this important debate to the chamber? I'm very pleased to be able to contribute to it today. Martin Whatfield is right, the wording of the motion championing the right to holistic family support is very important. In particular that article 18 of the UN convention of the rights of the child establishes the rights of families to help and support. That support for families struggling are going through difficulties has always been needed but today in the midst of this horrible global pandemic vulnerable children young people and families in Scotland have been the most affected by its impact. That's why holistic family support is so important and so necessary and thankfully there are excellent organisations who are skilled at providing that such as Action for Children, Homestart Scotland, Barnardo's Aberlour and Children First and many more who provide care and nurture to families across Scotland. Action for Children protects and supports children and young people and provides practical and emotional care to bring lasting improvements to their lives. There are 87 services across Scotland and there are 800 staff support care for and love for more than 20,000 children and families across 31 of our 32 local authorities. Homestart is a local community network of trained volunteers and experts support helping families with young children through their challenging times in their own homes. In the last session I attended a Homestart parliamentary reception which was to say the least inspirational and I learned much more about what they do. Barnardo supports thousands of individuals and Children First are exemplary pioneers of caring for children and families throughout Scotland so these are just some of the fantastic support organisations who do help families in need. The difference in their holistic approach is that they do not tell parents what to do or lecture them, they empower them to take control in an entirely non-judgmental and non-stigmatising way because families can need support temporarily due to an unexpected crisis, health or dependency issue or financial trouble. Those are life events that could happen to any one of us at any time. If it addressed early on these problems can be resolved or mitigated to allow the family to heal and of course children are always given a voice to help play a part in creating a happier family environment. As I mentioned earlier the Covid crisis has also seen the need for family support soar with many families reaching out for help for the first time. Action for children experienced a surge in demand of 415 per cent for parenting advice in the first three months of lockdown compared with the same time the year before. That is why the Scottish Government commitment to deliver a whole family well-being fund of £500 million over the course of the current parliamentary session is so welcome and important. The groundbreaking baby box and best start grants her testimony to our commitment to giving children the best start in life as well as our transformational early years programme. However, we must continually build on that and agree with Martyn Whitfield about consistency so that families under pressure know that help and holistic support is there for them when they are going through the roughest of times. The issue of supporting families indeed goes to the very core. The member recognised that 77 per cent of applications to the Scottish welfare fund and 66 per cent of awards in the Scottish welfare fund are for repeat applications for crisis support, which suggests to me that holistic family support in terms of financial support is not really being given to the families who need it, given that they are repeatedly applying for crisis support. Rona Mackay. Yes, thanks for that intervention. I agree that more has to be done in that sense, but establishing a fund like we have done is a start to that. However, as I said, it has to be built on and the point that you are making will hopefully be alleviated, and it needs to be done soon. The issue of supporting families indeed goes to the very core of creating a better society in Scotland. I thank all organisations and all volunteers and stress to all struggling families out there that unconditional help is there for them if they reach out. I thank Martin Whitfield for bringing this debate and for the thoughtful contribution that has already become a hallmark of his time in this Parliament. I doubt that I will meet that standard or test myself, but I am pleased to be able to speak in this debate and to voice the Conservative support for his motion. I think that we have already touched on some important points, but I wanted to say up front and first that all families struggle. Being a parent is not easy, being a carer is not easy. Sometimes, of course, there are those who face very profound and difficult challenges, but it is important to remember that all families deserve our support and the support of the Government agencies and the many charities who do tremendous work. Over the course of the pandemic, we have seen how dependent we are upon those third sector organisations, and we all owe them, as well as the many in our local authorities, often in underfunded departments who really struggle, who have continued when many have been working from home to go out and work with vulnerable families to make sure that they could eat, to make sure that they could eat their homes, and most importantly of all, to make sure that there was someone there to listen. That is where Rona Mackay made an excellent point, because that listening year has to be non-judgmental, it has to be helpful, it has to provide support, and most importantly of all, it has to be consistent. We can put services in place and then pull them away, and that is where I think Pam Duncan-Glancy's point is right. People bouncing in and out of crisis situations is not a long-term fix, and we all need to find the political will to try and address that. I think that often we see that there is good support in place, perhaps during pregnancy, or when people are about to have children. There are offers of NHS classes, albeit for many, some of those have been online in the past couple of years, and that has presented challenges for many new mothers who have struggled to make the connections and support networks that they need. However, what we find often is that support starts to drop off. Yes, there is health visitor support, but it can often be sporadic or at set points to meet arbitrary dates and cut-offs. That is where the consistency is important. People need support and advice right the way through the development of the children that they care for. I would like to take a moment to reflect on some of the work that I have seen in my own Dumfrieshire constituency, particularly from Aberlawer, who have many, many services that are there to help and support people from homework clubs through to drop-ins. The staff who are involved in those projects care very, very passionately about the people they work with. In closing, it is so important that we try to make sure that that is consistent across the country. It is good that we can point, and every single member of this Parliament will be able to point to good projects and good practice in their constituency or region, but there is an equal number of young people and families who fall through the net. Until we see that consistency, we cannot consider a job done no matter how much money new or otherwise is announced. Thank you very much indeed, Mr Mundell, and I call on Pam Duncan-Glancy to be followed by Paul MacLennan and again four minutes, please. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I would like to congratulate my colleague Martin Whitfield for securing this debate. No family is the same, but every child under the UNCRC has the same right to tailored family support. Disabled children are entitled to the exact same rights and fundamental freedoms as non-disabled children, a right enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People 2, but for those families to enjoy their human rights on an equal basis to others, sometimes they need things done differently. For them to live independently and have full enjoyment of their human rights does not mean that disabled people want to be able to live on their own or fend for ourselves. Full enjoyment of our human rights means having the same freedom, choice, dignity and control as everyone else, with rights to practical assistance and support to do that. It is this approach that allowed me and my family to be able to live with the same choices and freedoms as others. I am incredibly grateful for that, for the support that I have that allows me to live the life that I want to live, support without which being here today in this chamber would not be possible. I know the difficulties that my family faced in fighting to ensure that I was able to enjoy my rights to leave home, get a job, go to uni and their rights to live their life. I will never forget the day that we finally secured my support and my mum said to me, at last, I can be your mum, not your carer or your social worker, just your mum. My own transition experience forced my family to become project managers in our own lives and too many young disabled people still face that reality today. That, Deputy Presiding Officer, is exactly why I am working to give all young disabled people a fighting chance through my transitions to adulthood bill. Disabled children right across Scotland are still being denied the opportunity to realise their full potential. They go without the support that they need and that is why today we see a stubborn disability employment gap of 32 per cent. It is why disabled people have poorer mental wellbeing than non-disabled people. It is why, when they leave school, young disabled people are twice as likely not to be in education, training or employment and it is why they believe in the statement that nothing they will do will change their future. Too often the support that young disabled people get is a postcode lottery. Some get what they need, others in a different postcode do not have access to anything at all. The disability movement is testament to what can be achieved when people are giving their fighting chance and not doing so is a loss for all of us. Children going hungry in their homes and their families cannot afford to heat do not have a fighting chance either. They face barriers to their needs. In a Parliament that prides itself on being progressive, we must recognise that meeting basic human rights is a low bar and those should be unquestionable. Without them, how do we expect to enable people to have their full enjoyment and realisation of all human rights? We must urgently address child poverty and get on track to meet our child poverty targets, not because they are targets but because they are children. Doubling the Scottish child payment now is something that we all support but we must go further. It must be doubled again by April next year to increase the chances of more children living up to their potential. Right now, only one in four children are getting the rate that the Government agrees that they need. Until the Scottish Government fully rolls out that payment, children over six will miss out on the lifeline and 125,000 children will continue to receive no payment at all. The Scottish Government must work with the DWP to ensure full roll-out as quickly as possible. With rising energy bills, the Government must also take on our calls for a targeted winter fuel payment for families on low incomes. I know from my engagement from the third sector that many saw extraordinary increases in applications and a colleague has already alluded to that earlier. Yet their reward has been a £1 million cut to their budgets. They cannot afford to be plugging every gap left by the Government. People are in real long-term crisis and we can see that in the large number of repeat applications, as I said to the Scottish welfare fund, we need sustainable bold solutions, not just stop gaps. A commitment on full incorporation of human rights treaties plays a key part in that. Three months on from the Supreme Court's ruling that the UNCRC incorporation fell out with the devolved competence, the Scottish Government have failed to bring the bill back. Children and young people are not interested in the constitutional debate that has been holding it back. They want to see their rights enshrined in Scots law, and that will include a right to family support. They fought long and hard for it in co-operation. The UNCRC incorporation bill must be brought back to Parliament at the earliest opportunity. I call on the Government to set out clear timescales for when it will do this, so that we can get the bill on the statute books and build a Scotland where children really do flourish. Thank you very much indeed, Mr Duncan Glancy. I now call on Paul MacLennan to be followed by Stephen Kerr again four minutes, Mr MacLennan. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I thank Martin Whitfield for bringing forward this member's debate this afternoon. I also thank Aberlour, Barnadol's Children's First and CCPS for their briefings for the debate this afternoon. Just before Christmas, I met First Step, who is an organisation based in Musselborough, but the offer service is in other parts of East Lothian. I also met Home Start East Lothian, I think that Rhona Mackay touched on the organisation as well on a number of occasions around about that. First Step is a community-based project for families with young children, which is based in Musselborough East housing estate. It is an independent volunteer organisation that is funded by East Lothian Council and other funding bodies. It was first set up in 1990, so it has been there over 30 years, by a group of local parents at the start who wanted somewhere safe and comfortable where they could meet and their children could play. The continued involvement of families and local community in all aspects of First Step has been key to its success, and I think that that is one of the key elements that we need to get from this debate. It needs to be local solutions in regards to that. The project has developed its services to meet local needs, which will continue to be managed by a community-led management committee and employing a staff team to support local families. First Step aims to provide opportunities for local families with young children to make positive choices in their lives by providing supportive centre-based and outreach activities, which encourage parents and children to develop their self-esteem confidence and skills. They also offer parenting support individually and in groups. They have also moved on to nursery provision for children, one-to-four and eligible two-year-olds. They have groups and courses for parents, eat outreach and family support, and there is counselling and dedicated support for young parents. It really is a one-stop shop for families. In the briefing for this debate, Barnado said that family support is an approach that centres on relationships by providing a range of practical and emotional support to health and strength and nurture family connections. Getting alongside children, young people, parents and carers in their communities and providing compassionate, consistent and practical support in operating a no-wrong-door approach. The last session of the Scottish Parliament saw the publication of the independent care reviews final report. The promise of benefits core recommendations was needed to shift public spending away from dealing with the consequences of failure and inequality, to invest in prevention and to enable children and families to thrive. It highlighted the key role of family support in achieving that. The Scottish Government also convened the family support delivery group in recognition of the fundamental importance of keeping to the promise, as a critical component in realising the rights of children who are enshrined in the UNCRC. The doubling of the child payment that we have heard already is a major step forward and very much welcome, and it is a first step. The Scottish Government announcement of the creation of the £500 million whole family wellbeing fund as part of its Covid recovery strategy again is very welcome. There was a high-level strategy setting out the aims, including financial security for low-income households and enhanced wellbeing for children and young people. Children First and their Beefing also stated that the commitment to the £500 million whole family wellbeing fund and investing 5 per cent of the community-based health and social care spend on that is again very welcome. I will come back to the point that we need to build on local solutions. The first step, for example, on home start and my constituency are examples of how well that works. Detail is needed on how this investment will help to ensure that the Government delivers the commitments when it makes the accepted report around about the promise. In conclusion, holistic family support has been recognised by all parties and chambers as a key element in tackling poverty, supporting attainment and preventing mental health issues. I look forward to working with the Scottish Government, first step, home start and easel down council to expand family support services in easel down council. I thank my friend Martin Whitfield for bringing forward this important motion today. Central to my political beliefs is my belief in the family. It fills me with sadness to see the increased rate of family breakdown. The sadness is not derived from some romantic utopia of a family but because the breakdown of families has a devastating impact on those involved. When I talk about the breakdown of families, I am not just talking about divorce and separation. I am also talking about the breakdown of safe, stable and nurturing relationships within families where parents stay together. A recent study from Canada concluded that 44.3 per cent of parents with children under the age of 18 living at home experienced deteriorated mental health during the pandemic. As Professor Hazel Borland of NHS Ayrshire and Arran said in the Parliament for the Health Committee, there has been a significant impact on mental health, which tragically is also resulting in an increase in suicides across the country. With the impact, with the pandemic, affecting mental health of both parents and children, it is very important that every family in need has access to the appropriate family support. However, our approach to providing family support must change and emphasise the importance of relationships. Rather than looking at child and parent support and isolation, we need to look at them as interrelated. We must look at the whole family—I thought Pam Duncan-Glancy spoke well on that aspect. Central to this thinking is the understanding that children want loving relationships. As it says and keeps the promise for children and families, when children want to be safe, they talk about having relationships that are real, loving and consistent. To truly understand that, there must be a fundamental shift in our thinking. We must recognise the long-term pain that removing a child causes children, families and communities. Long-term loving relationships are key to nurturing children. It is key to their happiness and their wellbeing. That is something that is recognised by the promise that has been referred to by several speakers. Change programme 1 is a great way to deliver that. The third and charitable sectors add the love and nurturing that is often missing from Government programmes. Family support must be about exactly that. Children do not exist in a vacuum. They are raised by families and a broader community of people who love them. We are all responsible. It is incumbent upon the state to let family life flourish and to ensure that everything it does enhances rather than detracts from the family. Teachers in schools, social workers, youth leaders and others must always work with families to support them and to help them. Cutting across this is to be avoided, but support from Government is always to be welcomed. In the recent programme for Government, there was an announcement that has also been referred to in previous speeches about the £500 million that will be provided over the course of this Parliament for the whole family wellbeing fund. That funding is welcomed across the chamber. However, when I have asked for a breakdown of how that funding will be allocated, I have not yet received any answers that I would deem sufficient. To conclude, I would like to ask two questions, which I hope the minister will address in her remarks. How much of the £500 million for the whole family wellbeing fund announced in the programme for government will be allocated to each local authority and in each year of the Parliament? Secondly, with the commitment to dedicate at least 5 per cent of community health and social care spend to family support services by 2030, can the minister inform us what the current percentage of community health and social care spend is on family support services? Those are pretty clear questions. Decisions on family support must focus on the needs of children and families. That requires funding to be felt at a local level and a fundamental shift in our thinking is also required. Families are idiosyncratic and diverse. I have never met two families that were the same. Scotland must be resolved to support that diversity in all its glory and to work alongside members of a family to nurture and support and to love the next generation. Thank you very much indeed, Mr Kerr. I call on the minister to respond to the debate for around seven minutes, minister. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I am very grateful to Mr Wightfield for bringing this debate to chamber today and I welcome the opportunity to discuss the issue. I would also like to thank members for their contributions on this important topic. I often reflect on the fact that this Parliament works well when we all work together, and this seems to be an area where we are all wanting to pull in the same direction. Family support is not a new concept. Experience practitioners and professionals across Scotland have long highlighted the benefits of a holistic and whole-family approach to supporting families. An early offer of support that is sustained for as long as the family needs it is fundamental to getting it right for every child approach. As recognised in the promise and Martin Wightfield's motion and mentioned by a few contributions across the chamber, his motion about children have the right enshrined in the UNCRC to be raised safely within their own families. For all but the very few, that is absolutely what is best. Access to effective family support can be the critical factor in ensuring that that is achieved. It is even more important now, given what we know about the negative impact of the pandemic on child poverty, inequalities and the wellbeing of children, young people and their families, especially those at the edges of care or looked after children. The Scottish Government is already taking significant action across a range of areas to support families. Our baby box programme has distributed over 200,000 baby boxes across Scotland to provide much-needed support to families at the very start of their child's life. We are the only country in the UK to offer the equivalent of 1140 early learning and childcare hours to all three and four-year-olds and around a quarter of two-year-olds, putting children first regardless of their parent's working status. We have expanded universal free-school lunches to all children up to and including primary 5. We continue to invest heavily in child and adolescent mental health services and our mental health transition and recovery plan is supported by £120 million recovery and renewal fund that will transform services with a renewed focus on prevention and early intervention in response to the challenges of the pandemic. However, we want to do more in recognition of the additional financial challenges that many families are struggling with. We have declared a national mission to tackle child poverty, calling on all the society to work with us to make the changes needed. However, while we are doing everything that we can within our devolved powers to support families, the UK Government is doing the reverse. Pam Duncan-Glancy. We have significant devolved powers in social security to reduce child poverty, but at present only one in four children in Scotland living in poverty access the £20 Scottish child payment. How does the Government plan to address that and ensure that the other children across Scotland, hundreds of thousands of children across Scotland, get access to the money that they need? We need to ensure that people are aware of what their entitlements are. I am sure that there are people who are not aware of that and that families are not aware of that. It is incumbent on the Government to ensure that families get access to the benefits that they are entitled to. Recent research from the Joseph Rennie Foundation shows that families who do not have an adult in work and lone parents either in or out of work are significantly worse off than they were 10 years ago. That is before you take into account rising food and fuel costs, which are going to hit the poorest families most. We have repeatedly called on the UK Government to make fundamental changes to universal credit, to make it a proper safety net for all, and we echo the calls made just last week by charities ranging from Save the Children to Age UK to reinstate the £20 uplift to universal credit made during the pandemic and to stop more family spiralling in today's situation. In contrast, the Scottish Government's budget sets out our own choices to back families through this cost of living crisis. We are making £197 million available in the year ahead to support the doubling of the Scottish child payment to £20 per week per child from April, immediately benefiting 111,000 children under the age of six. Ahead of the full roll-out of the payment to all eligible children under the age of 16, we are also continuing to deliver bridging payments worth £520 this year for as many school-aged children as possible. I felt that she started off by saying something very profound and true, and that is when we work together across this chamber, then we can get things done. I thought that it was rather gratuitous and unnecessary and a deflection to then move on to talk about the UK Government. Can I ask her, as a Scottish Government minister responsible for this very important policy area, when will the Government bring back its legislation on the UNCRC? The Scottish Government is committed to bringing back the legislation as quickly as we can. We are working at pace through the judgment that was made by the Supreme Court, but my constituents would certainly think that Scottish Tory defending the cut of universal credit to their pockets of £20 per week could be construed as being gratuitous and unnecessary. We are also taking a range of action to tackle the cost of the school day for children, helping them to reach their full potential. We have committed £11.8 million to deliver the increased minimum school clothing grant of £120 for every eligible pupil in primary school and £150 for every eligible pupil in secondary school. We have committed £21.75 million to continue alternative free school meal provision for around 150,000 children and young people during school holidays. Importantly, we do not just want families to survive, we want them to thrive. As the promise change plan 2020-24 highlighted, we need our services to feel seamless for those who experience them. While there are many pockets of good practice and we have heard of them across the chamber in various contributions from members, we need to support whole system change so that the principles of good holistic family support are delivered consistently and sustainably across all areas. That does not mean a single model of family support, instead a service that wraps around families so that, when they need their help, their needs are met in a seamless, joined up and sustainable way unique to their own circumstances. We also want families to be able to access support regardless of where that need is identified by a GP and early learning and childcare centre. Wherever it may be, those services need to work collectively and collaboratively in a multiagency and multidisciplinary way to meet the spectrum of support that will best support the whole family to thrive. That means working together across boundaries to support children's services planning partnerships and our workforces to pool resources and to maximise their potential to deliver transformational change. Over the past two years, since the independent care review concluded, we have worked positively with the Promise Scotland and other key stakeholders to establish how we will ensure the lives of our children and families who are care experienced are improved. By the end of this parliamentary year at the latest, we will publish a single implementation plan that will set out the actions and commitments that we will deliver to ensure that we keep the promise by 2030. We have shown our commitment to driving transformation and fundamental service redesign. As part of this year's programme for government, we announced £500 million of whole family wellbeing funding over the course of this Parliament, with £50 million in 2022-23. The expectation that it will ramp up significantly in subsequent years once capacity and capability in the sector builds. I am very grateful and conscious of time. Is there a commitment to a monthly settlement for our third sector so that it can do forward planning as well, which is so essential to that? We are working very closely with the third sector in our planning for the funding, and so it will be very closely involved in that. You are asking me to wind up, and I have quite a bit more to say, but I have taken some interventions. I will commit to writing to Mr Kerr on his specific points and giving him the detail that I can do at this moment of time with the caveat that we are obviously still working very collaboratively with stakeholders and, most importantly, listening to the voices of children and families in the development of services and supports. Ultimately, we want Scotland's children to grow up healthy, happy, safe and loved, and we recognise that, in most cases, the best people to make that a reality is their families. We need to challenge ourselves to do things differently, but, above all, keep the voices of families at the heart of everything that we do. Thank you very much indeed, minister. That concludes the debate, and I suspend this meeting of parliament until 2pm.