The School Holiday Enrichment Programme

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 9 January 2019.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:02, 9 January 2019

Minister, I too am concerned about learning loss, which has long been identified as an issue, particularly in deprived areas, where children who have made great progress in catching up on some key skills—for instance, numeracy and literacy—then lose out during the summer period. I know, when Cardiff University reviewed this programme in 2016, they said it was very important that there should be continual evaluation of the scheme and its impact, and I wonder how core the learning component is to these schemes now, and what your ambition is for it to be common and pervasive throughout them all.