Thank you, Jenny. As you will know, the programme was initially set up as a two-year programme. The programme was extended for a third year. I have made a decision to extend the support for Schools Challenge Cymru schools until the end of this academic year rather than the financial year. We will also have funding in place to address new types of interventions in those schools that have not made progress. Whilst I absolutely acknowledge that many of the schools in the programme have made significant progress, unfortunately there is a minority of schools where the results have not seen that progress and, in some cases, they’ve even slipped further behind. I’m sure you would agree with me we need to refocus our efforts on those particular schools.

With regard to the schools that have made progress, we don’t want them to slip back. That’s why we have tasked the consortia with ensuring that all of those schools have an ongoing programme of support and mentorship agreed with the school improvement service. I was recently with a headteacher, with Alun Davies, in the Blaenau Gwent constituency talking to him about his post-Schools Challenge Cymru plan, which has already been agreed with the Education Achievement Service consortium, of which he is very pleased and very happy with, and I would expect that that example is replicated in all the schools that are affected.