Improving social care and childcare in Wales - Chief Inspector’s Annual Report 2022―23

We took time to work with staff and delivery of ‘More than just words’ by social care our knowledge and powers to support social care and our key stakeholders to talk about our specific role and childcare services should help improve the quality and childcare services to improve and encourage in supporting improvement in social care and childcare. [...] My thanks to all the members who provide a vital per- Members valued the approach taken during the In relation to CIW’s Strategic Plan 2020-25, members spective on CIW’s work and to the team at CIW who pandemic and wanted CIW to recognise that the impact urged CIW to capture the experience of people who use provide the content and support to enable effective was still being felt, and asked CIW to. [...] Partnership working In the Children’s and Younger Adults team we continued to develop our links with South Wales Police, to address the drive towards the decriminalisation of care-experienced children, and to review and monitor the number of episodes of children missing from care homes. [...] The impact of the pandemic, however, increase should be seen in the context of the growth in affected the way we prioritised our inspections and the the number of concerns received, albeit small and our findings of our inspections suggest the recovery in the focus on services subject to enforcement action. [...] In vegetables from the market or gar- addition to being part of their local den in the farm shop, loose change in community, the children are encouraged the till, a full-sized guitar in the music to be curious about Wales, the Welsh corner and hammers and saws in the language and other cultures.