Schools Shutting at Lunchtime on Fridays

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:04 pm on 1 May 2019.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 2:04, 1 May 2019

Minister, do you agree with me that it's very important that any decision to move towards an asymmetric week is based on whether that's good for children and not whether that's convenient for adults, whether those adults are the teachers who are teaching them or the parents who are looking after them? Can you confirm that in the consultation you expect schools to undertake one of the issues that is covered would be the issue for rural schools of school transport and of children having absolutely no way to get to or from school except school buses, and the complications that that can bring to family life? The situation of children in very rural schools is, of course, different, potentially, with regard to an asymmetric week, if the children are not in school, to what it would be in a more urban area where there are more transport options.