Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 25 April 2018.
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary for that initial response. She will be aware, however, that three Estyn reports have now said that the current condition of the school is having an effect on learning in that school, and that the pupils of ysgol Dewi Sant deserve the best possible education, and that’s the purpose of the twenty-first century schools programme that her department is responsible for. Today, as it happens, the planning application was formally submitted for the new school. There have been some delays because there have been complaints that the school will replace what they call a greenfield site. It’s important to underline that the planning application includes public access to the school playing fields and therefore retains a community element, as everyone, I’m sure, would welcome. If delays arising from this local disagreement were to hold up the project, would the Government be in a position to ensure that the capital funding would still be available for this school, given that the pupils, who should be our focus in this context, deserve a new school, and deserve a school of the quality that she and her programme put forward?