Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 25 April 2018.
Thank you, Presiding Officer, and good afternoon, Cabinet Secretary. In 2016, there were two reports about school closures. One said that, in the previous 10 years, there'd been 157 school closures across Wales—three out of five of those closures being rural schools. The other said that there were a further 50 schools earmarked for closure. At the same time, local authorities are trying to encourage families to move into villages, and yet some schools in those villages are in danger of being closed or are already closed. What more can you do to reassure parents in Wales that their local school will not be closed in the near future?