Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 16 November 2016.
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?