4. 3. Statement: The Additional Learning Needs and Educational Tribunal (Wales) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:31 pm on 13 December 2016.

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Photo of Dawn Bowden Dawn Bowden Labour 3:31, 13 December 2016

The question is, because I have also written to the education Secretary and the health Secretary about this, because there is only one local authority in Wales—Caerphilly council—that actually recognises Irlen syndrome, and has Irlen screeners in the schools, who are working at an early point to try to diagnose this particular problem. Now, the question, I guess, is whether the Minister can look at the potential, within the parameters of this Bill, and under the code, whether the provision of early screening for Irlen in all schools could fall in line with the draft code stated, and that early identification and intervention would fall within the scope. There’s an awful lot more to it than that, Chair—