Thank you, Llyr. What the report does not show is that we have a difficulty in providing supply teachers. Interestingly, the report shows us a picture of supply teaching that perhaps some people would find unusual, where a great number of teachers that are employed on a supply basis are not for one, two or three days to cover absence or to cover the continuous professional development of a professional colleague, but are actually people providing supply on a termly basis, for an entire term or more than two terms. So, this is new data that we have got, which demonstrates to us how complex the supply teaching model is, and we will need to come up with a model that does have the flexibility to allow for those one, two days to cover sickness, or to the longer term.

Can I just say that teacher-pupil ratios have moved very slightly in the years between 2010 and now, from 18 to 18.5? So, there isn’t a crisis, but we do know that there are some specific areas where we find it difficult to recruit and retain teachers, particularly in some science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, and particularly in some Welsh-medium provision. Those particular pressure points will have to be factored into a solution for supply teaching.