<p>The Swansea Area Education Consortium </p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:46 pm on 11 January 2017.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:46, 11 January 2017

Suzy, there are two important ways that I as Minister view the performance of each of our regional consortia. The first is Estyn’s independent inspections of the consortia. With regard to ERW, Estyn’s outcomes were that their support for school improvement was good, their leadership was good, their partnerships were good, and their resource management was good. However, improving quality was judged to be adequate by Estyn. As a follow-up to the Estyn inspection, I met with all regional consortia as part of my challenge-and-review meeting, where we look to see what we could do together, as Welsh Government and the regional consortia, to address any shortcomings in consortia performance and to drive forward improvement. I admit that modern foreign languages and the quality of Welsh language education in English-medium schools was not discussed at those meetings, but I will write to the Member with the evidence that she wants to receive.