<p>Community-focused Schools</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:10 pm on 12 July 2017.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:10, 12 July 2017

I was wondering what work you had done in relation to community relations and schools that are community focused. For example, in my area—and others’—we’ve got a new superschool in Ysgol Bae Baglan. They were told before the school was built, amalgamating different communities around that area, that they would be able to access provision—be able to access the field—for activities, but it now comes about that it’s for the governors of that school to be able to make the decision. Quite often, that creates tension in the local community, where the governors may have a different view as to what that field should be used for as to what the community has already used it for over many, many years. So, I’m wondering what conversations you’ve had to try and encourage proper conversations between the schools and the communities to ensure that everybody can actually access those facilities when they do need to use them.