Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 16 November 2016.
I thank him for that statement. Tomorrow, as he knows, is Social Enterprise Day. Many childcare settings are delivered via social enterprise, as he’ll know from his familiarity with settings in my constituency. Ensuring the resilience of the sector is vital, and that includes both front-line skills, of course, but also, importantly, skills to do with running the organisations themselves. As part of the initiatives into childcare ahead, will he look at the prevalence in the sector of the skills and experience to deliver those functions as well—management, accountancy and even marketing—and look at how we can spread best practice that does exist in parts of the sector?