Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 8 February 2017.
Thank you for that, Llyr. As you’ll be aware, this report has been done by people independent of Government but was commissioned by Government. If interested parties had been hoping that the task and finish group would produce a definitive answer to the issue of a single supply model, then I accept that the report does not do that. In meeting with the chair of that group, they have said that they felt it was impossible to, at this stage, be able to recommend a single model going forward. I accept that some people will be disappointed. This is an important area of education policy. We need to ensure that those who are providing supply teaching have the qualifications, the support, the continuous professional development and the terms and conditions that they deserve, and I will be looking again at how we can make progress in this area.