- 17/05/2018
- Posted by: Mike Hedges MS
- Category: Assembly Questions
Questions to the Finance Cabinet Member 16 May 2018
OAQ52163
5. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the innovate-to-save fund? OAQ52163
Mark Drakeford AM 14:21:32
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The first round of innovate-to-save attracted 50 bids extending from the effectiveness of social prescribing to new ways of assisting communities threatened by coastal flooding. A second funding round was launched earlier this year. 76
Mike Hedges AM 14:21:46
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Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response? I very much welcome the innovate-to-save scheme. It’s something I’ve been asking for for some time. But, of course, not all innovations will work or provide long-term solutions, but those that do can produce improved services and/or savings to the Welsh public sector, which can be quite substantial. Are there any successful schemes that can be rolled out to other parts of the Welsh public sector?77
Mark Drakeford AM 14:22:12
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Well, Llywydd, it is very early days in the innovate-to-save area, and I don’t think we could yet be completely confident that these first schemes have yet demonstrated their success to the point where we could be confident of rolling them out everywhere. But to give you just one example, the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, as they are one of the schemes we are taking forward under innovate-to-save, have been working with Anglesey council to pilot a project that brings people with profound physical disabilities together, because one of the effects of having a profound physical disability is you’re often very isolated—you get services in your own home, you see the carer, you may not see anybody else. On Ynys Môn they’ve been bringing people together so that they can share in activities, and they have found it to be very successful. In that example, they are already talking to other local authorities in Wales as to whether or not they could roll that pilot scheme out further.
