Payments to Schools in the Private Sector
The Quality of School Meals
Mohammad Asghar: 5. Will the Minister make a statement on attainment levels in Key Stages 1 to 3 in schools in Wales? OAQ(5)0021(EDU)
Estyn’s Inspection of Schools
School Attendance
Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Bullying in Schools
Elin Jones: Therefore, we move to questions from the party spokespeople to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, and, first this week, the Welsh Conservatives’ spokesperson, Darren Millar.
Alun Davies: ...2021. We have piloted expanding Welsh in other subject areas, and remain focused on increasing our young people’s communication skills. We are also increasing support on Welsh to teachers and schools.
Alun Davies: All providers of vocational courses are required to promote and develop their Welsh-medium and bilingual provision. Welsh Government requires all work-based learning providers and further education colleges to increase the number of learners who use Welsh within their learning and provide opportunities for learners to develop their Welsh language skills.
Elin Jones: I should have said ‘the Cabinet Secretary for Education’s’, rather than ‘next door’. Simon Thomas, ymddiheuriadau, ond a yw hi’n bosib ichi ailadrodd y cwestiwn?
Bethan Sayed: ...record so that we can understand fully how they operate. So, I hope that answers most of your questions. On the cross-cutting issues, of course we may want to look at, for example, Welsh language education. So, of course, then we would want to discuss with the Children, Young People and Education Committee if they were doing work. Obviously, we wouldn’t want to duplicate it. We harp on...
Llyr Gruffydd: .... What are the experts saying? We as politicians often like to say when we discuss health policy, ‘Well, it’s important that we listen to the voice of the doctors and nurses’. When we discuss education, ‘Well, it’s important that we listen to our teachers.’ The Cabinet Secretary for Education said that just an hour and a half ago when we were discussing the reduction in class...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ..., quite simply, make that an inevitability. An ageing population is something that is to be celebrated, but it’s something that we’ll need to invest in. Part of that investment is in the education of those who will look after that ageing population—all of us. The safe staffing Bill was rightly celebrated by nurses in Wales, and the inevitable results of the passing of that Bill, of...
Bethan Sayed: ...programme helps around 60,000 of the most vulnerable people in Wales to live independently and prevent them from becoming homeless—very successfully, as I’ve said. It helps people back into education, sustains tenancies, and gets them back into work. The moral case for doing this is well understood, but there is a financial case for doing so as well. In 2006, it was found that, for...
Andrew RT Davies: ..., it is the people and communities of Wales that get let down when these initiatives aren’t carried through and aren’t delivered to the very people who require them to be delivered in health, education and the economy. But, if you just look through this document, it is impossible to actually see how the Government proposes to take Wales forward, as the front page talks about. The UK...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...is how to construct a system that is fair to all generations. Many older people, but of course not all, have benefitted from huge house price increases. Many did not pay for further and higher education. Many had a job for life and have protected inflation-proof pensions. In the meantime, the next generation who, through their work and taxes, will meet the costs of caring for their...
Leanne Wood: ...models of healthcare upon rural areas, and your Government is imposing a one-size-fits-all model right throughout the country. If Ysbyty Gwynedd loses its vascular surgery, it’ll make the medical school in Bangor, which we want, much less viable. It’ll also mean that people from Ynys Môn, Pen Llŷn and other places, travelling far too long for vital limb or life-saving surgery. Will...
Carwyn Jones: Yes. It was made available to schools on 1 September.
David Melding: ...amongst younger people in Scotland when the law was changed for the Scottish referendum. It would also allow us very elegantly to promote in the 14 to 18 age group a whole new concept of civics education and voter participation. This is something we really need to do; citizens have to be aware of their responsibilities, as well, in terms of keeping a healthy democracy going, and education...
Ken Skates: ...further. Why? Because it’s good for the economy, it’s good for skills training, it’s good for volunteering, it brings communities together. It’s also good for the heritage sector and for education. I do not believe that royal charters should act as a preventative measure when you have willing partners within those institutions that want to come together to bring expertise and...
