<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 15 February 2017.

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Photo of Janet Finch-Saunders Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative 1:45, 15 February 2017

Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. The White Paper also proposes to build upon existing regional arrangements where they are in place. However, Estyn has criticised some educational consortia over governance and performance. For example, in June 2016, they criticised the north Wales education consortium for poor working standards, that the rate of improvement in many pupil outcomes had been the slowest out of four regions and that the consortium has been slow to ensure that the governance arrangements align with the Welsh Government’s national model for regional working. If you’ve got a model now with such heavy criticism and not seen to be working effectively, why would you wish to replicate this?