Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 26 November 2019.
Well, Llywydd, just to add my voice to the same issue: off-rolling of young people in order, artificially, to make it appear as though results in a school are better than they otherwise would be is completely unacceptable. Those young people deserve the best of educations, and the fullest consideration, and we know they are sometimes children who provide challenges in the classroom. That's why the education Minister has said what she has said. She has instituted a series of measures immediately to make sure that we have the best information in this area, and to alter the way in which assessments are carried out in schools, so that the incentives, the perverse incentives that might otherwise have been there, and which some schools are said to have unfairly exploited—that those opportunities are closed off in the future.