Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 22 March 2017.
Thank you, Minister. Minister, I’ve recently been made aware of a situation in my constituency where a learning support assistant is providing assistance to a girl with needs around her sight—Braille support. That LSA has left the council to work elsewhere and the council has been unable to replace that position, so she’s been unable to continue with that level of support through no fault of her own, or even the local authority’s. I guess we’re probably all agreed that greater collaboration between authorities around providing that sort of support would help, as would the local authority using retention and recruitment premiums if necessary. But can the Minister say what else local authorities and Welsh Government can do to ensure that children such as my constituent’s can get the assistance they need when local authorities are unable to fill these posts?