Presiding Officer, could I thank Leanne Wood for raising this really important topic? I too was appalled, but not surprised, by the findings of that Plan International UK survey. I want to ensure that education settings in Wales are a place of safety, a place where all girls can be confident and undertake their studies and activities without this threat. And I say that as the Cabinet Secretary and the mother of three girls. Clearly, there is more work to be done. On the issue of supporting girls, clearly there is a need to ensure that our curriculum, via our current personal and social education lessons, and in our new curriculum of our new relationship and sexuality education programme, explores these issues from the very youngest age for both girls and boys, because, of course, boys are absolutely crucial in ensuring that girls do not have to endure this kind of behaviour. In our new curriculum, our new relationship and sexuality education will begin at statutory schooling age. So, from our very youngest pupils, we will begin to address these issues so that we can see a culture change in how girls and women are having to live their lives.

With regard to current support services, local authorities have a responsibility, indeed a duty, to provide counselling services for all children in year 7 through high school and in year 6. Individual local authorities have chosen to do that in different ways. For instance, in my own local authority, there is a heavy reliance on online counselling facilities and they have enjoyed very positive feedback from young people. But there is a duty on all local authorities to provide those service.

We are also, of course, about to go out to consultation on the school uniform itself to look to introduce new statutory guidelines around school uniform, which will hopefully address perhaps some concerns that girls have about what they're able to wear, both in terms of school uniform and PE kit, and will hopefully address some of these issues.