10. Will the Minister provide an update on how the Welsh Government is ensuring that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is being realised? OAQ(5)0057(CC)

Our 2015 programme for children and young people highlighted the many pieces of legislation and policies we’ve delivered promoting children’s rights and participation across Government.

Cabinet Secretary, you know as well as I do that there’s a duty on local authorities and local education authorities to ensure that the UNCRC is promoted in our schools. Unfortunately, this is not subject to inspection at the moment by Estyn. I feel that it ought to be in order to make sure that young people are able to understand what their rights are and how they can ensure that they can be realised. What action will you take, in conjunction with your colleague the Cabinet Secretary for Education to ensure that the Estyn inspection regime is able to reflect upon this and whether there might need to be a change to it?

I’m grateful to the Member for raising that in the Chamber today. We do currently have, with the Cabinet Secretary for Education, a review of inspection services about to start, and we will look at that carefully.