<p>Wales as an Ethnically Diverse Country</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 1:33, 3 October 2017

First Minister, on Friday I was with the ethnic youth support team in Swansea, and they were saying that they would like to have much more support going into schools and education venues in regard to trying to get communities to work together. And so, in one school, they had a white girl wearing a hijab, and she walked down the street, and then she came back and said how different she felt she’d been treated because she was just wearing one piece of headwear that was different to how she would usually dress. And I think these types of things would help children who’ve never been introduced to other communities, or other ethnicities, in their lives to try and understand how it is to live in those everyday experiences. So, I was wondering whether you were able to speak to them—I know they work closely with the Welsh Government—in providing them with additional resource to go and do this in other schools across Wales, to make sure that, when we start at a young age, those potential problems may be alleviated by starting as early as we possibly can?