Problem Gambling

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:05, 25 April 2018

I share the concerns that have been expressed by Mick Antoniw and agree with him wholeheartedly that we need to take more action in our schools to address problem gambling. One of the concerns that has been raised with me is that, in the Welsh baccalaureate, there is a task that has been assigned to some pupils in Wales that asks them to imagine what it's like to win the lottery and then to spend that money. Now, it seems to me to be wholly inappropriate in terms of encouraging people to imagine that sort of task and it's at odds with the public health messages that we want to send as a nation to our young people. So, what action are you going to take to work with the WJEC, Qualifications Wales and others to make sure that all of our examinations, all of our textbooks, have gambling eradicated from them in terms of promoting it in this way and that the only message they see about gambling is one that is negative?