Huw Irranca-Davies: ...We really need to implement in full the recommendations of the endometriosis task and finish group report from 2018, and this included that knowledge of menstrual health must be embedded within the education system, and resources must be developed to support this for the whole of Wales. Now, we have had a big step forward in 2021, with mandatory menstrual well-being education included in...
Huw Irranca-Davies: The Minister will know from his visits around Wales that some pupils don't engage with the traditional curriculum and with traditional education. But providing opportunities such as construction skills is a way in to a productive future career, and sometimes quite a lucrative career as well, with skills such as carpentry and bricklaying and plumbing and so on. So, will he join me in welcoming...
Huw Irranca-Davies: 4. What assessment has the Minister made of the role of construction skills as part of an alternative curriculum for school pupils? OQ59261
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...bypass proposal was a road, or actually a series of roads connected by roundabouts, enabling the phased opening up of a strategic site, connecting new homes and medical facilities and a new school with the existing community of old Llanharan along the main spinal route from the western point of the A473 beyond Llanharan, and allowing access and egress in the direction of Talbot Green,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: Minister, I hope you enjoyed your visit to our excellent schools in Ffaldau and Llangynwyd last week.
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...teaching very good skills in art. And then they were incorporating that into other aspects of the curriculum being taught in other lessons. It was, I think, quite a revelation in the way the school had really taken on board the new curriculum. So, partly in answer to Sam's question, but also partly to ask for your reflections on that, how do we make sure that the very best practice in...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...the Counsel General for that answer and, indeed, there has been progress, working with partners in the legal profession, with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, with colleges and further education providers over the last few years to get to the point where we do now have foundation stage level 3 and advanced stage level 5 of the new CILEX professional qualification, the CPQ, but...
Huw Irranca-Davies: That's really good to hear. We've got a lot more work to do, I know, but Cefn Cribwr Primary School were in today and I asked them, 'How many of you scoot, walk or cycle to school?' and nine out of 10 hands went up. It's really great to see, and if we could only replicate that across every primary school. But, because of the climate crisis, because of the health and well-being challenges...
Huw Irranca-Davies: 7. How is the Minister working with the Minister for Climate Change to increase active travel to schools and colleges? OQ58925
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...with much of what is in the report, some of which I'll pick up from Sam in a moment, who does a commendable job in chairing the cross-party group that focuses on outdoor activities and outdoor education—. Of course, we always look at Wales as a country that is full of outdoor adventure and adrenaline, but we have to do it safely, of course, and there is a body of expertise there,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...to place refugees and asylum seekers in places without any advance notice with the communities or with Welsh Government or the local community involved, with the health board in the area, with the education authority in the area, because this is about the care of those individuals, for which those services need to be in place there. So, we need the UK to work far better than this right...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...benchmark for what we should be doing throughout the UK, and it was OECD reformed, as Llyr actually said. It was supported not only by industry, trade unions, third sector, civil society, post-16 education and so on, and it's there on the shelf, and, to be honest, it did actually have as one of its key elements how we could work cross border with the UK Government, and on a trans-European...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Mwangi should be alive and well today, and being brought up in a loving, caring family and community. Ben Mwangi and his family should be looking after him. The teaching community of Tondu Primary School should be wrapping around him, as they did, as they tried to. It's right that the perpetrators of Logan Mwangi's brutal murder are behind bars for a long time, but it's right as well that...
Huw Irranca-Davies: My thanks go to Sam for bringing forward this legislative proposal. It gives a really much-needed airing here in the Senedd to the benefits of outdoor education and activity. It's very timely on the back of the new curriculum, which has been shaped by the heightened realisation of the wide benefits of learning in the outdoors. Indeed, the Welsh Government curriculum guidance states that...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...would I do?', and the hands just shot up and it was just great to see. So, Minister, I'll give you the question, at the risk of flooring you now. The question that they asked was—from primary school children— how do we build more new, exciting schools in Wales?
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...’ll explain why in a moment. But they, along with Huw Williams, senior lecturer in philosophy at Cardiff University, are putting together not only the play that will be touring next year through schools, through community centres and so on, but will also be hopefully coming to the Senedd to talk about what they're doing and also to the UK Parliament as well. Richard Price is a man of...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...language in Wales that is part of our day-to-day life—in our work, at play and all around us. Proof of success in this area will be helping more and more pupils in Wales to access Welsh-medium education as a natural and easy choice. In Ogmore, which has two local councils, this will mean greater and greater cross-border co-operation on school travel, working together on the location of...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...reasons, to take in more thoughts on a slightly extended remit as well. I met with parents last night in my own constituency, keen to feed in their views around the 3-mile criteria for secondary schools and how this has to relate to safe routes to schools as well. I'm keen to say that, in their thoughts, 2 miles would be more appropriate, particularly for some of the younger children. So,...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...actually has; it's permeated it, when we actually spent three years bringing forward the framework for regional investment in Wales. That was co-produced by the CBI, FSB, the third sector, higher education, further education, academia, everybody, and it was based on the very best OECD models. We were worried that that was going to be chucked out. It's been put partly to one side, but I'm...
Huw Irranca-Davies: ...key point he made was that this closer co-ordination between justice and other parts of Government, which the Counsel General has touched on in his statement today, in particular in health and education. He indicated that it would be easier to achieve that co-ordination if justice had been devolved to Wales, but in the absence of this, Minister, what more can be done—that practical...
