Last year, the Welsh Government published data that showed persistent school absence at its best-ever recorded level, and it’s well known the correlation between attendance and attainment, on many levels. The Cabinet Secretary’s predecessor reported that the Welsh Labour Government had introduced a series of measures in recent years to address school attendance, including for those pupils eligible for free school meals, including the increased pupil deprivation grant, and the Welsh Government’s attendance grant, which supported education consortia in their work within the authorities and in the schools to develop and embed the effective practices to secure longer term improvements in school attendance. Can the Cabinet Secretary outline how the Welsh Government intends to build on this good progress and ensure that no child is left behind because of lack of attendance at school for genuine reasons?