Can I thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement, although, I have to say it's been a long time coming? We've known that we have not been sufficiently stretching our most able and talented pupils for a number of years now. Not only has Estyn confirmed this, but we've had others also confirm it—in particular, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—and I do believe that the lack of action has, unfortunately, left some people behind. But that said, I do welcome the fact that we have a statement today that there's going to be some additional investment in the Seren network.

Quite obviously, we have a problem here in Wales. We're not doing well enough on the OECD league tables. Our GCSE results last year were the poorest for a decade, in spite of the fact that the arrangements with Qualifications Wales et cetera seek to eliminate the impact of the fact that they were new GCSEs. We know also that we have some problems within the existing Seren network in terms of inconsistency, in terms of different qualification criteria from one Seren hub to the next, and indeed not having equitable access within those Seren hubs or, indeed, across Wales.

I note that you're making £3 million available over a two-year period, but what about beyond those two years? Is this going to be a sustainable thing? You said you want to do some research as well. It's going to take probably more than two years to be able to follow and track these individuals through the education system, and if you're picking up youngsters pre GCSEs and taking them all the way through to the end of their A-levels, that's a four-year period. So, how on earth is simply committing £3 million over a two-year period sufficient to be able to measure the progress of those individuals? We don't have any base data, of course, because the reality is that none of the kids who are currently engaged with the Seren network are being tracked to see where they actually go on from their studies in schools. We have no idea how many of them go on to the best universities in the UK and, indeed, overseas. So, I'd be grateful for an explanation from you as to where the £3 million figure is from, how you've worked out that that is sufficient funding for this network, why you've only committed to funding it to that extent for the next two years, and what precisely you're going to be measuring in terms of the baseline data, so that we can see whether there's been any improvement in order to hold you to account for this.

In addition to that, you talk about equity. We hear a lot in this Chamber about parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications. What about putting something in place for high-achieving vocational young people? Why can't we have something similar to get those new engineers through with higher level apprenticeships in our further education system? Why can't we be tracking those as well as the high academic achievers? I don't understand why you aren't announcing anything for them, and I would very much like to see what you're going to do in order to support them too.

So, we need a different approach. I welcome the fact that there are extra resources on the table, but I don't think that this statement answers many of the questions that lots of people have about the current framework and how you're going to make sure that the new framework works.

Can I just also ask you in terms of eligibility criteria very quickly? This is, of course, a big problem with the current Seren hubs and networks. It's very different from one to the next. Are you going to set eligibility criteria so that young people know from the outset what they're expected to achieve in order to access the support from Seren? If so, what is that support going to look like in a tangible sense? Is it schools that are going to be getting extra resources, or is it just simply people getting together now and again, and the occasional meeting for practitioners to attend, or is there going to be some finance attached to those individuals in those schools in order to give them extra support with their education? I don't think that you've said enough today, frankly, Cabinet Secretary, and I would certainly like to know a lot more detail.