<p>Politics and Current Affairs in Schools</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 3:30 pm on 6 July 2016.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 3:30, 6 July 2016

I thank the Member for those observations. As I said, this is already contained within the existing curriculum, and Estyn have a role in ensuring that the delivery of that curriculum, as it currently stands, is giving children and students the information that they need to be able to participate in all aspects of Welsh life.

With regard to the new curriculum, which, as I said, has as one of its four key objectives the development of ethical and informed citizens, practitioners, through the pioneer schools network, are at the heart of developing that new curriculum, and the assessment arrangements around it, which will give schools settings and practitioners more responsibility for determining how these subjects will be taught. But they are a fundamental aspect of the kind of education that we expect our young people to receive, both now and in the future.