Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education — Postponed from 8 November – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 15 November 2017.
Cabinet Secretary, you've been in position now for some 18 months. What is your assessment of the capacity within the education system for teachers and teaching assistants to be able to take on the training that they require for continuous professional development and in particular to raise standards? There is one thing bringing your policy document forward and allocating resource to that, there's another separate issue about the capacity of the system to be able to create the time and the space for that training to be undertaken. I'd be interested to hear what your opinion is now, after 18 months in post, of the ability of the education system here in Wales to provide those training opportunities, both for teaching assistants but also for professional teachers as well.