Twenty-first Century Schools

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:11, 25 April 2018

I am sure that there are other examples where we have co-locations of facilities like that. What the twenty-first century schools programme is allowing us to do is find new and innovative ways of providing school places, whether that be in a shared location, whether we see the growing number of through schools, where children are educated on the same campus from the age of three right the way through, in some cases, to the age of 18. This unprecedented investment in school buildings, the largest since the 1960s, is giving us the opportunity to provide local authorities the options of a wide variety of ways of providing educational facilities. And one of the ways in which we judge cases that come in, as I said earlier to Simon Thomas, is also on community access to those facilities and, increasingly, as we work together across Government on the childcare offer, the ability to see whether we can combine education and childcare facilities in our new builds also.