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Our manifesto for Wales鈥� animals, vets, and public health 2026-2031

Ahead of the 2026 Senedd elections we have created our听manifesto for Wales鈥� animals, vets, and public health,听where we highlight our main asks for Wales鈥� political parties. Our calls to action cover:

• The Sustainable Farming Scheme
• BTB and disease control
• Responsible use of veterinary medicines 听
• Animal licensing activities
• Veterinary workforce

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We encourage you to听read our manifesto, share it with your networks, and engage your local MS on it.

Building relationships and calling for change at 趣夜app鈥檚 Welsh dinner

趣夜app welcomed the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies, as guest of honour for the annual Welsh dinner at Cardiff Castle on 24 June 2025. The event was also attended by around 90 guests, including several Members of the Senedd, senior representatives from animal health and welfare organisations, and veterinary professionals, providing many useful opportunities to build relationships and discuss key topics affecting animals and veterinary professionals.

Newly elected Welsh Branch President Phoebe McCarter used her maiden speech to highlight recent wins for animal welfare in Wales, and the importance of improving biosecurity measures in the face of exotic disease. 趣夜app President Elizabeth Mullineaux spoke about the importance of a modern regulatory framework to enable Welsh vets to continue being at 鈥�the forefront of delivering high-quality animal health and welfare services across a diverse landscape, from urban practices in Cardiff and Swansea to large-animal and mixed practices serving rural communities in regions like Powys, Ceredigion, and Carmarthenshire.鈥�

Phoebe and her fellow 趣夜app Welsh Branch officers also spent the day meeting key stakeholders, including the farming unions, CVO, and Deputy First Minister, to call for a greater focus on animal health and welfare in the sustainable farming scheme, and to discuss measures to improve management of endemic and exotic disease.

Welsh Branch meeting with Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

趣夜app and Welsh Branch officers met the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, Huw Irranca-Davies in June 2024 to discuss the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), endemic disease and funding for animal welfare initiatives. The Cabinet Secretary, who is proud to be a 趣夜app Honorary Associate, is keen to work with 趣夜app on many key issues, and was pleased that Welsh Branch President Gwen Rees was representing 趣夜app on his . He recognised that the veterinary profession had a key role to play in supporting farmers through the transition.

Championing animal health and welfare in sustainable farming

After the Agriculture Act (Wales) came into force in 2023, 趣夜app Welsh Branch has continued to work with Welsh Government and other stakeholders to shape the Sustainable Farming Scheme so that it supports animal health and welfare, and is accessible to all farmers. Welsh Branch President Gwen Rees represents 趣夜app on the roundtable set up by the new Cabinet Secretary, which is seeking to address the concerns of the farming community about the scheme. We have also spoken to the CVO, the Cabinet Secretary, the Shadow Rural Affairs Spokesman and the Farming Unions to raise our concerns with the scheme as currently proposed. We would like to see animal health and welfare centred in the scheme as an integral part of sustainable agriculture. We would also like to see more flexibility in the universal actions, to ensure that as many farmers as possible are able to participate.