Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 17 October 2018.
For me, this is the last piece in the education jigsaw and I'm very glad indeed that we've been able to come to this position where those powers are now formally devolved. For too long, we have seen the teachers' pay and conditions regime respond to an agenda from a different Government to support a different education system. This allows us to tailor-make our teachers' pay and conditions to mirror the values that underpin our education system, and I hope it will give us the opportunity to make Wales the place to be an education professional.