Thank you, Paul. It is really important that there’s a shared understanding around the expectations between school leaders and their staff. Sometimes, those expectations are driven by external accountability measures, so the school leaders are putting work onto staff because they think that’s what is expected from them, either by their regional consortium, by the local education authority or, crucially, by Estyn. That’s why, you’ll be aware, earlier on this year, we launched a resource for all schools and all practitioners that set out very clearly the expectations of regional consortia and Estyn, for instance, when it came to the issue around marking and assessment. That’s been supported by each of the teaching unions and I hope that that is proving to be a very valuable resource in all of our schools, and that school leaders are taking it seriously.

We constantly need to look to the profession to how we can work smarter and better together, and challenge ourselves as a Government: are we requiring things of schools that are adding to bureaucracy, but not adding to learning? We’ll constantly keep that under review when I meet with school leaders, via a series of conferences that we hold.