Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 28 September 2016.
Thank you, Hannah. I was very grateful to both you and Jeremy for leading on this agenda and coming to see me prior to the summer recess to talk about the importance of this agenda. As a result of that meeting, I am establishing an expert task group to better support me and officials in how we can support schools in this agenda. What we are aware of, from research, is that many schools feel—and teachers often feel—that they don’t have the knowledge or the understanding of how best to address some of these situations. So, we will be asking the expert group to help us to develop new resources that will be available for teachers to tackle bullying in all of its forms to be able to give them confidence. We will continue to look to do what we can to support schools and individual teachers to ensure that they are best equipped to support their pupils and to ensure that our schools are bullying-free zones.