3. 3. Debate by Individual Members under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Looked-after Children

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 29 June 2016.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 2:59, 29 June 2016

Thank you. Cabinet Secretary, I’d be very grateful then—. Listening to what you have to say brought joy to my heart because this is an area I’ve been very concerned about with the Donaldson review. Therefore, given what you say about having five GCSEs at C grade or above as being the measure by which we measure the people here in Wales—and we have so many young people, just under a quarter of young people, with learning difficulties who will struggle to get that attainment, will you talk with the education Secretary, and actually review during the Donaldson Review two things—one about how you can look at that very much tick-box exercise we have, to measure the academic achievement of individuals, and secondly, how we might be able to bring what you’ve just mentioned, that learning skill, to develop the rounded person? Because you’re absolutely right—a good education is not to do with exams, and not to do with syllabus, but much more about developing a good citizen.