 Fflawn da, fiwl uned morgan gweinidog i eich meddwl sesiant ar gymraeg yn Llywodraeth Cymru, ond blaeser i fi gal cynhadledd y wasg heddiw. Ar ddi ddweyn yr nath y prifweinidog yn cymryg adonhau y bydd angen i ni aros yn y cyfnod clô am dair oesnos arall, felly heddiw dwi am ffocusi ar y gwaith i ni wneud i'ch cyfnogi chi, ac yn ywedig eich plant a phobol i ddbank yn ystod y pandemig. Yn ddweud y Prif Weinidog yn gystaf winningdog yn ôl yn gweithio negri i arnod ar ddweud yn gweithio. A gael i some nhw hi i ddweud o ddim eto'n cael ei bod yn gweithio gyda'r gwaith, ac ychydig i ni i gydych chi'n cymryg adonhau a'r gweithio ddweud iddi'r pandemig. Felly byddwn i'r gwirionedd ar gweithio ar olau i ddechrau'n progrwm. Yn ddweud eich gweithio newydd am��edu llraedd, Mae'r gweithio amser ar gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'r GPs, a chyfnodol gondol, yn golygu'n cael ei gael gweithio'n cynghreifftol ymlaen gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'r fforddau dechrau ar y mynd i ni i gael. Mae'n rhaid i gyd yn rhoi cael 416,000 gwahanol ar gyfer y gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio ar y gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. I know you'll be anxious to hear whether we've met the next marker in our vaccination strategy by offering vaccines to all care homes in Wales, and I'm pleased to confirm that we have. All older person care homes have either received visits from vaccination teams or have visits planned. Where visits have not taken place yet is because there have been live COVID cases in the past 20 days, and these vaccination teams will visit homes as soon as the public health advice allows to those who haven't yet received them. So I want to thank everybody for that huge effort and for everybody in care homes. I'm just really pleased that you are now protected. Every vaccine delivered is a small victory against the virus. I want to turn now to how we're supporting you. This time of year can be really challenging for many of us at the best of times. We've just made it through January and congratulations to those of you who managed to do a dry January. But spring feels like a long way off, but I think we've got to try and be optimistic. The days are getting longer, the mornings are lighter. The pandemic and the restrictions on our way of life have had a massive impact on us all, but it's been really hard on children and young people especially. We know that young people's normal routines have been disrupted. They've been in and out of school throughout the year and separated from friends and support networks. We know that around 80% of mental health issues start in childhood or adolescence, so early access to support can make the world of difference and stop these developing into potentially lifelong problems. Throughout the pandemic we've increased support for mental health services because of increased levels of anxiety and stress and because we anticipate an increase of mental health issues. Today we're going a step further and investing another £9.4 million to support children and young people struggling with the impact of the pandemic. £4 million of this will improve early access to emotional and mental health wellbeing in schools as part of our whole systems approach. There'll be more counselling and more emotional support available for school children. The rest of the funding will support child and adolescent mental health services providing care for young people who need more intensive support either in the community or in specialist mental health inpatient services. Today marks the start of Children's Mental Health Week and it's never been more important to ensure children and young people have the right access to the appropriate counselling and mental health support. One of the key things when it comes to mental health and wellbeing is to understand that we're not always dealing with a medical condition. There aren't many people who at some point haven't felt anxious because of the situation we're in or concerned about the unpredictability of the future or really finding it hard to live with isolation at the moment. These issues don't always need a medical solution but many people do need help and support to address them. We are determined to put measures in place to support you and prevent these issues which are often low level mental health issues from becoming bigger issues in the future. We know that there's a direct link between joblessness and anxiety so since the start of the pandemic we've done everything we can to provide businesses with support to ensure people have a job to go back to as soon as the public health situation allows. We've provided more than £2 billion in business support to help firms meet some of the costs they continue to face. This is in addition to the wage support schemes available from the UK government. But this doesn't mean that everyone's financial worries will disappear. Last week we saw another rise in unemployment. The unemployment rate is now at 4.6% in Wales. These are deeply challenging times and the sad reality is that many households are falling behind or struggling with their financial commitments. Financial worries and problem debt can be all-consuming but the Welsh government has made sure that there is support and help available. Our single advice fund helps people who are struggling to pay their rent or household bills and to better manage their financial situation. We've made more than 10 million pounds available to help resolve problems which include debt and employment. More than 115,000 people have benefited from this fund in the first year. It's helped people claim 34 million pounds of additional income that they're entitled to and to manage debts of £8.9 million. We're also piloting a scheme to refer people who are in extreme need of help because of problem debt to citizens advice. I want to return briefly to remote learning. Learning from home isn't easy and we're incredibly grateful for the support and patience of parents, teachers, children and young people. It's our priority to get students back to school as soon as we can. Fel gweni ddog y Gymraeg, rwy'n amrhoi gwybod i chi am rai o'r adnoddau sydd ar gael i helpu i roi i adnoddus pobl plant sydd yn cael ei adnoddus crigyfrwng y Gymraeg. As Minister for Welsh Language, I wanted to highlight some resources available to support children learning Welsh and children learning through the medium of Welsh. We've issued guidance to parents of children in Welsh medium education and we've worked with the regional consortia, Estyn, the BBC and S4C to make sure there's plenty of Welsh medium learning resources available on platforms like Hub. It's important for parents to know, especially non-wealth speaking parents, that the language skills children acquire will stay with them for life. While they're learning from home, please encourage them to watch and listen to Welsh on television or on the radio, even in the background, just so they can stay in touch with the language. If you need more help and support, the new website, www.welshforparents.comery launches today. These are difficult times and sadly we know we'll be living with the virus for quite a while yet. It's really important that we don't lose hope and we know that together we're going to get through this. If you need someone to talk to or some extra support, please reach out. There are people waiting to help. Our call mental health helpline is available 24 hours a day on 0800 132 737 or text HELP to 81066. I'll take questions now and as normal, all of these answers will be broadcast on our social media channel. So, I'll start with Megan Bout, ITV Wales. Diolch yn fawr. Realistically, how close is government funding to meeting the mental health needs of children and young people in Wales? Well, we know that the problem is increasing and that is something that we're very aware of. The mind has done a report recently where they've shown about three out of four children are experiencing more mental health difficulties than they were before. So, we know that there's an issue and we know that it needs to be addressed. We've already increased the funding in this space last year but we're hoping that some of the pilots that we put into schools in about six different areas in Wales or counties in Wales, we will now be able to roll those pilots up to the whole of Wales so that there'll be support in school to help people with mental health difficulties. So, what word would you use to describe the provision for children and young people's mental health at the moment in Wales? I think I would describe it as improving. I think we recognise that there was a situation where there is an increase generally even before the pandemic in the number of children suffering from mental health issues. But I do think that this isolation that many of them have felt has led to perhaps more concentrated problems. But I just want those children to be aware that that support is available and it is available online, it's available face-to-face if that's necessary and so I would encourage children to reach out and if we find that the amounts of funding are not enough then of course we will revisit that. Gwai ofen i te Llyr i Glyn Jôr's now BBC Wales. We now know that all care home residents have been offered the vaccine or will soon receive it. How soon then can families with loved ones in care homes expect rules on visiting to change and be relaxed so they can go and see their loved ones? Diolch yn fawr, Llyr i. Just i ddechrau i ddweud ein bod ni wedi rhoi cansawea gerbron y llefydd yma, y llefydd gofal yma, i sicrhau bod pobl yn ymwybodol bod yna mae'n bosibl unw i ymweld ar cartrefi yma, hyd yn oed nawr, os mae'n mysire mewn lle. Yn amlwg mae'ch haid i ni cael y cydbwysydd yma yn iawn rhwng diogel i pobl yn y cartrefi, a hefyd roi hawliau eu rhain i sydd eisiau ymweld a'i perthynas yn hyn yn y cartrefi, felly mae'r haid i ni cael y balans yn angoir a dwi yn gobeithio bydd pobl yn dylun y cansawea i ni'r wedi rhoi mewn lle. Just to repeat that we have put very clear guidance in place to support care homes in allowing people to visit loved ones. Of course we've got to get the balance on this right because we have to protect those people in care homes and from the virus and of course with that vaccine being rolled out in care homes now in a few weeks time it will be easier for us to allow people to visit but for the time being because we know that it takes about three weeks for the vaccine to work we would encourage people to make sure that they stick to the regulations the guidance that we've put in place around visiting care homes. We know that there are discussions ongoing this week with unions, local authorities on the plan for hopefully reopening schools after the half term. What are the kinds of safeguards, the extra safeguards that can be put in place to protect teachers and children from the virus and the wider community of course if it's begins to transmit widely in schools? Gydar i'n debyr hynna sy'n ma, i sicrhau yn bod ni'n cydweithio, dwi'n meddwl bod pawb yn ymwybodol bod angen i blant fy nôl i'r ysgol beth dynnu ddim ysiau gweld i'w y gwaith hynny aethau'n arbennig rhwng reini sydd yn dod o dylio'r clotach a'r reini sydd yn dod o dylio'r mwy cefnog yn ehangu a dyna un o'r ysysymau pam i'n siw sicrhau bod plant nôl yn ysgolau er mwy cael y cymorth emosiwnol yna sydd angen arnyn nhw. Fydd canllawu'r mewn lle, mae yna ganllawu'r mewn lle eisoes wrth gwrs fyddwn i'n cadw llygad ar lefel y virus yn y cymuned a fyddwn i'n sicrhau yn bod ni'n ei popeth i sicrhau bod plant yn saf a hefyd bod a thrawon yn saf. We are absolutely determined to reopen schools as early as possible and that's why there will be intensive discussions with unions this week to make sure that we can put all of the things in place so that we can ensure the safety as far as possible of those students pupils and teachers. There is of course already some very strict measures that have been put in place in schools. We have to keep an eye on the levels of virus within our communities and we will always be looking to the scientific evidence to support us in what we are doing. Thank you. As you say, the Welsh Government are in conversations with teaching unions this week about the proposed return to schools after half term. Can you give a definitive date when parents will know either way if this date is feasible and can you also clarify the age groups this proposed return applies to? The announcement said the foundation stage. Is it fair to assume all children between three and seven within that? The First Minister has made it clear that he wants to give two weeks notice to parents, to teachers to make sure that they can prepare for getting children back to school. So we're expecting an announcement on that on Friday but of course that will be determined by those negotiations that will be held this week. The focus will absolutely be on those children who are youngest who find it most difficult to learn online who need that socialisation perhaps more than some of the older children and we are very determined to try and get those foundation phase children back to school as soon as possible. The other area of course we're looking at are those people perhaps who are on more vocational courses who need to have that practical feel for their work and their studies perhaps in secondary schools. Thank you. Are there contingency measures or planning in place for assessment and grading in the eventuality it's simply unsafe for children particularly in the key exam years in secondary school to return to the classroom and how can teachers potentially grade students having not seen them other than through digital means if at all for many months? Well I know that those discussions are ongoing of course we've got to a different place now when it comes to the kind of more academic approach so we've we've got some clarity now on how those will be assessed that is why if we can we would like to get those students back to school on those more vocational practical courses so that they can be assessed correctly of course those negotiations will continue and they will be an effort to make sure that those children and those pupils can be assessed properly irrespective of the situation that we're in. I'd like to ask Daniel Bevan now LBC for his question. Thank you minister good afternoon to you. You've told us today that you've hitched your targets or offering your first jab to the elderly population in care homes and also staff there but last week the health minister couldn't tell us he said it would wait a couple of days because of a data lag about hitting the target from last Sunday why is that data lag not come into this announcement? Has it got something to do with the fact that you've hit this target but you missed last week's? No we have been working very diligently this morning to make sure that we have assessed those care homes to make sure that that offer has been made so we can it's much easier to find the data from care homes than to find the exact number of vaccinations that have taken place and so that may explain the difference between why we can give that assurance today in the way that it was more difficult last week. But the key thing is that we have hit that target the rollout of the vaccine in Wales is going from strength to strength. We are now in terms of across the UK doing extremely well and I'm hope that people will feel a lot more confident now that we will hit that target that we've set for those four priority groups by mid February. Thank you and you say you've got more data to hand on care homes. I wonder if you've got any data on the kind of take up that there's been for this first jab from care home staff and how do you feel about staff who are skeptical about the vaccine and are refusing it? We've seen reports from England that as many as one in five in some groups are turning down the vaccine. Do you think there needs to be more done here in Wales to encourage people who are caring for the most vulnerable to get that first jab? Of course we would encourage everybody in Wales who's eligible to take the vaccine. This is a really key way that we cannot just protect ourselves but protect the other people who we love around us. I think that is particularly important in care homes because of the vulnerability of the people who are living there. That's why we have really tried to make sure that people as many people as possible within those care homes who work in those care homes take up that opportunity. We are at a point where we are not making a mandatory for people who work in care homes to be vaccinated but of course we would be very very pleased if they would take up that opportunity and protect those people that they're working with. I'm terribly sorry Minister but if I can get some clarity on that last bit you say it there like that's certainly a possibility that you're living open mandatory vaccinations within care homes. We haven't got to that point but of course we need to think about protecting those people who are working in care homes and those people who are living in care homes but we will do our very best to convince people that this is the right thing for them to do. Can I ask Lidia Griffiths? Llywodraeth Llywodraeth Cymru. Ymni ddim yn hapus o gorbl i glwed nadw pobol yn gallu siarad Cymraeg mewn inrû le ac yn sicur mewn carchar sydd yn hymru ac felly wrth gwrs os maen nhw'n problemau mi fyddwn i yn sicrhau enbryd Mae'n gallu siarad Cymraeg, mae'n unrhyw lle, ac yn sicr mewn carchar sydd yn hymru, ac felly wrth gwrs os maen nhw'n problemau mi fyddwn i'n sicrhau e'n bod ni'n cysylltu gyda swyddfa gartreu sicrhau nawyd hyn yn parhau. Mae hwn yn rhywbeth sydd yn hollol anrbyn niol ac mi fyddwn i'n edrych mewn i'r sefyllfa os mae hynny yn bryodol. Diolch i chi. A'r chynaeth nath ych chi groesawu adroddiad o fynd wedi bod angen aelod ydylygu cychyddeb chiwrgell genedlaethol Cymru, a bod y sefyllfa brysenol yn angen eliadwy. Ti'n 1.5 miliwn o grann sy'n gwneud gol mae'r chywrgell chi'n ddweud sydd angen, dda chi'n cydnabod fod hynny'n chydig yn hi desun cychyddeb chiwodraeth. Dwi'n meddwl i'n dda i'n bod ni wedi gallu cynnal y gallu deb oedd yna sy'n edd yn gwineb y ffaith, byn bod ni wedi cael toriadau. Os oedd y toriad yn son Stephhan am dros 10 miliwn edd. Ac felly mae hi'n bwysig i'n bod ni hefyd yn talun yn elu'r ffaith i'n bod ni wedi gallu rhoi aden ychwanegol o ran cyfalaf i'r llyfrgell i helpu i nhw digiteidio, i gwaith nhw a hefyd i helpu nhw i digid i carbenedio yr adeilad. Dwi'n meddwl bod yn bwysig bod pobl yn cydnabod bod y broses cael ei debol yn dal i fynd yn ymlaen ac wrth gwrs, mi fyddwn ni yn edrych i fewnus y ffaith i weld os ydi chi'n bosibl i rhoi helpu chynegol. Gai ofyn am y cwestiwn nesaf, Andrew Nittle, y Llywodraeth. Diolch, Smylgr. Rwy'n fwy fyddwn ni'n meddwl, mae'n meddwl y byddwyr yn gweithio y ffaith i'r bwysig yn ymlaen o ran cyffredinol fel y gweithio'n ffawr. A oedd yn gymuned gan ddiffanfod yw'r cyffredinol, fe ydych chi'n meddwl i fynd i'r cyffredinol? Mae meddwl i'r meddwl i fynd i weld i'r gyflwystio rhan yn ymlaen o'r bwysig, wedi rwy'n meddwl i'r gweithio. Mae'r bwysig i'r meddwl i'r gweithio rhan yn ymlaen. worried about the choices in the last year at this age by turning for that difference at the moment. You are not alone as I mentioned, but every individual is different, with a different open sense of the issues in a different way. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of here, but I think it's important that we get rid of the stigma of talking about mental health, which is why it's important that we've got this clearly on the agenda. It has been on the agenda of the Welsh Government for the past eight years, ymweld, rydych chi fydd yn yn ei wneud bwysigrwydd travel ar fy mod, y gallai'r ffordd gymsod gyda'r cym cyfnod yma. Rydych chi'n fyddeu, dyna'r myfwiydd warych gyda'r cyfnod yma, ac byddwn i'n rhaid i'r gweithio gael gyrdd gyrdd gyrdd gyrdd. Mae'r gweithaf wedi arno, a ddim ein pob arleidydd yw y gallai'r gumad, ond roedd dw i'w ddim y gallai bod yn eithaf gael gyrdd gyrdd gyrdd gyrdd Connectwys? Dwi'n mod i'n rhaid i'r trif yn ychwanegwyr o'r ymdeithasidd yn mawr. Yn mynd i'w chythgof yn y mawr, thoseydd y fath yn gwneud hynny diwrnod yma. Uly Lilly, mae hynny am eich gyfre… Yn mynd i'n mynd i'n mewn y pmel o'r mawr, crefwyd yn helpu o'r cyfrifiadol neu yw'u rhaid i'n mynd i'r fath yn y mawr. Mae'n mynd i'n rhaid i'r fath o'r mawr, o'i gŷn fân o'r cyfrifiadol a'i gŷn oed i'r fath. ddigonwyr a'n ei boblhau. Mae'n gynnwys iawn i'w cael ddweud o'r gwahanol iawn gyda'r ddweud beth mae'n bwysig o'r ddweud o'r bwysig o'r gy independently of mae bwynt o'r ddweud o'r pwynt o'r hwnnw yn ei ddweud o'r cos oau lleolwyr a'r ddweud o'r colliOU oherwydd mae'n swyddwch ar y ddwyngh, lle oedd erbyn oedd diffwysgol o'r ddweud fel hyn o'r ddweud. Maen nhw'n oedd hyn yw rhywun i ddyliau, ond yma'r yma eich e�yneth o'u meddwl o'r gwahau a dwylau heb gweithio'n me thighs ymlaen. Mae'n rhaid i'r darllen. Ddiwydlariaeth o'i gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'r reddweithio ar gyfer y llywodraeth i gweithio'r meddwl oherwydd mae'n gweithio'n halif, ac mae'n ddiddordeb gael iawn o'r iawn o'r gweithio'n meddwl, ddim o'uитbwyd, rydw i'r wych arbennig. I think there are lots of things that young people can do but the key thing is just keep talking and reach out for support. Diolch, Nathan, from the speaker. Thank you Minister. Good afternoon. You've announced new investment for children and young people's mental health support in schools today. With pupils learning remotely, though for least the short-term future, are you confident that pupils are aware of the support that's actually available to them? Are there barriers to young people accessing support due to them working remotely? We've made sure that that opportunity to access support is available not just online but where necessary face-to-face. We did put about £1.25 million into school counselling last year obviously with this additional funding we're able to roll that out further. We're also taking into account the fact that it's not just the older pupils who are suffering, there are some primary school pupils who also need our support and of course also we need to think about the teachers. They are really suffering a tough time at the moment and of course we have put a package of mental health support in place for them as well. We've also got access to those who are over 16 can access Silver Cloud which is our cognitive behavioural therapy offer which is online which means people can access that support when it's convenient to them so I would encourage people to do that. Of course there will be school nurses that people can ask for support with but there are plenty of platforms available for young people but if you can't find anything else please call our helpline call and that will give you a point you in the right direction. Thank you and we know that many young people indeed people of all ages support their mental health through sport and exercise often at leisure centre venues. In Wales this first lockdown leisure centres were among the last venues in society to reopen. Given the mental health benefits of sports venues, will ministers such as or self be considering these venues as a higher priority for reopening to help people's mental health recovery when lockdown measures do eat? We absolutely recognise the amazing difference that keeping fit can have on someone's mental health and that's why we were actually really reluctant to close down gyms and that's why when we reopen it will be one of the first things that we will try and consider. Of course we have a very clear pathway now for what gets reopened and when so gyms are very much in those early opening areas that we would like to focus on but I would like to encourage people to really start to take up exercise during this time if you haven't started already it makes a huge difference it punctuates your day it gets you fit and it gets you into a very different place when it comes to mental health so I would encourage people if you haven't done it yet why not make a late New Year's resolution to start that off even if it's just 15 minutes a day and of course now we've relaxed slightly the rules on being able to exercise with somebody from outside your family one other person during this time so you are able to do that and so in particular for young people I hope that will alleviate the situation of isolation. Diolch yn fawr, thank you very much.