Welsh-medium Education

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:06 pm on 19 September 2018.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 2:06, 19 September 2018

The 14-19 learning pathways—this is for you, Minister—that entitles young people in Wales, as you know, to study the subjects they want, even if it's not in their own school and they can go to a nearby school. However, the funding that previously went from Welsh Government to local authorities to enable that has been combined with other funding grants, which has made it difficult to follow the money. So, I'm hoping that today's very welcome announcement, which is also to be combined with other moneys, isn't going to be difficult to follow, and that we don't end up in a situation where this ends up in local authorities' general capital budgets. How can we be certain that the entitlement created in the 14-19 pathway is being observed in the Welsh-medium sector, where distance between schools can be pretty big? And, obviously, there are financial considerations as well. How will the announcement of this new capital help with the 14-19 pathways delivery? Thank you.