Children with Special Educational Needs

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:16 pm on 9 July 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:16, 9 July 2019

Llywydd, I share the Member's concern, and I know that the education Minister does as well, at the over-representation amongst school exclusions of pupils with additional learning needs. It's partly why we are investing £20 million to prepare the system and staff for the new regime that flows from the Act that was put on the statute book in this Chamber, and, in doing so, we certainly look to those figures to see a reduction in the proportion of school exclusion that comes from pupils that have those additional learning needs.