Well, we can’t hang around waiting for you to make a decision here. A decision was actually made by the previous Cabinet in the previous Government and was simply not followed through in terms of extending the remit of the Education Workforce Council, which is the profession, effectively, in Wales. You say that the profession should own these things. Why can’t you give responsibility to the profession’s body, the EWC, to have responsibility for shaping these professional standards going forward? You say, Cabinet Secretary, that these are just five standards replacing 55 standards. Actually, it’s a 100-odd-slide PowerPoint, effectively, that people get through to online when they go to have a look at drilling down into what the standards mean and how it should affect their practice.

When you are finally making a decision on the remit of the EWC, will you also consider the lack of ability of the EWC as it stands at present to suspend people from registration when serious allegations are made? As you will know, there have been a number of cases in Wales in recent years of people who have been alleged to have committed sometimes some very serious offences. And whilst they may have been suspended by their employers for employment purposes, they are still registered on the EWC’s registration list, and there’s no power, unlike some other professional bodies, to actually suspend their registration to prevent them from working in our schools. There is a safeguarding issue here, I believe, which needs to be addressed. Can you confirm that that is also something that you will consider when you’re looking at the remit of the EWC in the future?