7. 6. The Education Workforce Council (Accreditation of Initial Teacher Training) (Additional Functions) (Wales) Order 2017

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:14 pm on 14 February 2017.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 5:14, 14 February 2017

I'm very grateful for you giving way, Cabinet Secretary, and very grateful for the clarification in terms of the timetable for the publication of those. But do you accept that it is very unusual for an organisation like the EWC not to have responsibility for developing those standards, and that it is unusual that it sits with the Welsh Government? Why is it? What's the argument for retaining those responsibilities with the Welsh Government, rather than giving them to the EWC, as the proper body, to develop these things?