Suzy Davies: ...the people I know don't live their lives online. Can you just confirm that you will be including—just thinking of Julie's question—individual groups and organisations, and perhaps things like schools and nurseries and care homes directly, rather than through non-governmental organisations? You may have to just take a sample—I appreciate that—but I think some direct evidence from...
Suzy Davies: One of the priorities in the Welsh Government's asylum seeker delivery plan was to find increasing opportunities for access to higher education for asylum seekers, and very specifically in that plan it mentioned that Welsh Government will enable monthly surgeries with Cardiff Metropolitan University to provide advice on possible routes to universities for refugees and asylum seekers. You...
Suzy Davies: The next item is a statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: update on the next steps for the pupil development grant. I call on the Cabinet Secretary, Kirsty Williams.
Suzy Davies: I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Education to reply to the debate.
Suzy Davies: ...now involve that, but we do have the sort of pre-Donaldson gap, which I think—you may not be able to give me information today—we need to have some information on, particularly at secondary school level, where both young men and young women will have missed the opportunity for this to be very normalised at primary school level. So, if you're able to share any information on that, that...
Suzy Davies: ...policy by 2050, but you can't make the assumption that just because a child goes to Ti a Fi and Mudiad Meithrin they will continue to use Welsh throughout their lives, particularly when they leave school. While it might be quite difficult to monitor the progress of individuals using Welsh when they perhaps learn it online, it should be easier to track the progress of a child and whether...
Suzy Davies: ...stereotypes and encourage girls and boys to consider non-traditional occupations. When do you expect to be able to give us some working examples of role models who have been persuaded to go into schools, and how schools themselves have identified those—it could be women, but it could be men as well, I suppose—so that we know what a good role model might look like? Thank you.
Suzy Davies: ...consequence of economic growth. Good jobs, well-funded public services, safe neighbourhoods, faith in our care system—these all require a confident and capable citizenry empowered through education, freedom and encouragement for individuals to be primary actors in their collective future, connecting participation in economic growth with the benefits of that. Our people should be our...
Suzy Davies: ...'t different in the two potential jurisdictions; what constitutes a contract isn't different. So, it's not about specific offences, it's about those underlying—you know, the stuff we learn in law school, basically. So, I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance here that in putting together a code that is about the application of law and the administration of law, there's nothing in there...
Suzy Davies: The education sector is represented on the Swansea bay city deal's shadow board by universities. A range of skills, which may, of course, capture some of the individuals that we speak about in this question, will be needed in the workforce if the deal is to reach as many communities as possible, which raises the question of the role of further education colleges in the deal. They need to be...
Suzy Davies: ...9 of 2014 social services and well-being Act—obviously, a different Act. At the moment, I understand that there are no codes under that Act. They haven't been issued. But, as we know with school standards and reorganisation, the existence and interpretation of codes have been material in supporting one party's position or another. So, I suppose my question is whether you are expecting...
Suzy Davies: ...all they had left that was making money—all they had left to tax. The bed tax was introduced to assist the region’s economic recovery, with 25 per cent of those receipts going to health and education. The remaining money was destined for a tourism development fund, into which the sector itself directly paid extra money via its chambers of trade. That money was used to support a quality...
Suzy Davies: ...authority, which, back in the mists of time and evidence and documentation that is apparently far too expensive for the local authority to disclose these days, introduced a tertiary college education policy that remains influential to this day. Neath Port Talbot borough council is still following that policy. With two exceptions, based on language and religion, post-16 education is...
Suzy Davies: ...£10 million will come to the department for key priorities. Now, will that £10 million be used entirely for improving Welsh in the workplace, promoting the Welsh language and supporting the education sector, or will a penny of that be provided in terms of funding our recommendations to avoid relying on re-prioritising those mysterious programmes? Some of the recommendations in the...
Suzy Davies: ...explained how you’d like to focus on co-ordinating and commissioning practical support to facilitate the use of the Welsh language amongst small businesses. Now, about £4 million from the main education budget came to the Welsh language budget this year towards education support, and I wonder if it’s clear yet whether preparing young people for using Welsh in the workplace, which is...
Suzy Davies: Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the number of schools that teach life-saving skills?
Suzy Davies: First Minister, last week, I visited Severn Trent’s testing labs in Bridgend—you may know them already—and most of the senior team there were women. They weren’t educated recently in Wales, I’m afraid, so it doesn’t help you on Andrew’s question, but, even so, it is a great example of women getting into good STEM careers. They’re also a good example of where, in a facility...
Suzy Davies: ...Secretary and Mark Isherwood back in July, both having visited HMP Berwyn. They themselves have said that the site is made up of smaller human-scale units appropriate to targeted rehabilitation and education services, offered by expert third sector and other external organisations. I seem to remember that Coleg Cambria is in Berwyn, and I look forward to the detail of what will be the...
Suzy Davies: ...skills, as I hope you accept, could be agents of social mobility, and, of course, we have the 1 million speakers target. So, is there any support that Welsh Government might be able to give the school, or the consortium that’s involved in this, or additional advice or support, in order to make sure that they actually crack this in this next 12-month period?
Suzy Davies: As you may know, Cabinet Secretary, there’s a new Welsh-medium school in Bettws, a very deprived part of the Ogmore constituency. I’m wondering how clear it is that the PDG can be used to improve Welsh learning skills, if you like, for pupils from English-speaking backgrounds, which actually makes it easier for those families to choose Welsh-medium education for their children, helping...
