Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 4 October 2017.
Diolch. I’d like to raise the experience of a school in my region and that’s Ysgol Gymraeg Nant Caerau in the west of Cardiff. In 2012 the school had 86 pupils on a site designed for four to seven-year-olds. Now, the school has 240 pupils aged between four and 11, and they’re having to turn children away. There’ve been expansions of schools in other areas, but Nant Caerau is having to make do with a tiny site and the footprint is less than half the Government guidelines. There is a patch of land next to the school thatcould be used, and that makes perfect sense to me and almost everybody, but the council is dragging its feet.
So, would you agree that if we are to increase the use of the Welsh language in areas like Caerau and Ely, we need to invest in sites like this? And will you meet with parents to encourage Cardiff council to take action on the site as soon as possible?