Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...of long COVID. This important guideline for health professionals offers the latest information for managing long COVID across the NHS in Wales, and is supported by a package of comprehensive education resources. This includes advice on the referral process into secondary care where needed and clear guidance on when to arrange diagnostics for people living with long COVID. Updates will be...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...have an impact on us here in Wales. So, if we reach a point where England removes all restrictions, what plans in terms of intensive communication will the Welsh Government have ready in order to educate and share information with people visiting Wales, for example, that the situation is different here if restrictions remain in place in Wales at that point? We know what the difficulties...
Vaughan Gething: ...substance that supports the amendments put forward by the Welsh Conservatives, which we will not be supporting. The UK funds will mean funding gaps for many sectors, including higher and further education, the third sector and business. These are partners who have previously invested to help close historical gaps in research and development, to provide support to our most vulnerable people...
Delyth Jewell: 3. Will the Minister make a statement on teaching children about climate change in schools? OQ56613
Llyr Gruffydd: 5. Will the Minister provide an update on discussions the Welsh Government has had regarding ensuring that school governors have the right to complete online DBS checks through the medium of Welsh in line with his predecessor's pledge on 17 March 2021? OQ56604
Education in Clwyd South
Outdoor Education
The Accessibility of Welsh-medium Education
Amendment 3—Siân Gwenllian In point 3, insert as new sub-points: 'ensuring post-16 education institutions provide sport and leisure facilities while encouraging participation by attendees; encouraging public broadcasters to devote a greater percentage of broadcast time to women’s sport; working with clubs and organisations to reduce homophobic, and sexist behaviour and be...
Julie James: Communities like Islwyn are leading the drive to make the circular economy a reality in Wales, with innovative local businesses using recycled materials and eco-schools taking action on plastic. These important contributions are a key part of our drive for a zero-waste, net-zero-carbon Wales.
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Gareth Davies: Will the Minister provide an update on the provision of medical education in north Wales? Transferred for written answer by the Minister for Health and Social Services.
2. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Samuel Kurtz: ...in my constituency who have raised concerns that their children, because of the use of masks, can't lip read and they are facing ongoing barriers to their learning experience. In addition to losing educational time over the past 18 months because of efforts to slow the spread of the pandemic, these pupils have felt feelings of isolation. What additional support has the Welsh Government...
Laura Anne Jones: Diolch, Llywydd. May I start by welcoming you again to your role, Minister, as I am now formally the shadow education Minister, and it's now official? May I say that I'm very much looking forward to working with you, opposite you, on this hugely important brief, particularly at a time when we're coming out of a pandemic, and we edge closer and closer to the biggest change in education...
Jeremy Miles: Certainly. In a further education context, obviously, individual institutions provide their own well-being and mental health support for students in a wide variety of different ways, from counselling, online support, resilience training—there's a wide range of options that individual institutions deliver to their students. They've all developed and are implementing well-being strategies to...
Sioned Williams: ...make it more difficult for people to seek refuge here, and I want to see the Welsh Government going further in terms of the nation of sanctuary scheme, delivering against the pledge to extend the educational support for pupils who are asylum seekers, as well as securing access to free school meals and the pupil deprivation grant. It's a duty upon us all to do everything within our ability...
Welsh-medium Education
Sarah Murphy: Will the First Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans to support young people seeking employment, education or training opportunities?
Rhun ap Iorwerth: Thank you very much, Llywydd. First Minister, around a year ago, you were announcing that schools were to reopen again after a long lockdown, but, of course, we know how much feeling isolated, being separated from friends has had a heavy impact on the well-being and mental health of young people. Now, throughout the pandemic, the proportion of young people waiting over four weeks for an...
