Improving Educational Outcomes in Disadvantaged Communities

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 6 February 2019.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 2:07, 6 February 2019

Minister, I'm very grateful for the response that you've just given, but will you recognise the tremendous role of the faith communities across Wales, which are working very closely, often, with schools to eliminate poverty amongst the families that they serve? There was an excellent event that was sponsored just yesterday by Huw Irranca-Davies with the Catholic Education Service, and I was amazed and impressed by the wealth of activity that just the Catholic Church in itself was undertaking with the schools that it serves. So, will you commend them, and what other work is the Welsh Government doing to engage with faith organisations more widely to help to address the poverty that some of our children find themselves in?