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Only 2.5% of the reduction in childminding services between 2016 and 2017 was due to the drop in the number of inactive childminders, which equates to a drop of 6 inactive childminders.
I am clear about the need to ensure that active travel is about not just people who are predisposed to being active, but is about reaching out to communities that are more deprived and difficult to get at in order to ensure that they, too, get the benefits of the investment.
This is such a different way of doing things that it has been a little hard for everybody to get their heads around it—I will admit that it has been a little hard for me to get my head around it in my new portfolio.
We understand a lot of their distress, so we need to work with our patient groups, to get a better understanding of that, because we can ensure that patients get seen when that is appropriate.