Autism within Schools

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 15 January 2020.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:03, 15 January 2020

As I said in answer to Jayne Bryant, we have a pan-Wales programme of raising the autism awareness of the practitioners that are working with children. That includes, as I said, producing guides and training material for them, as well as producing resources that can be used in schools, and, of course, our new curriculum gives us the opportunity, in a variety of ways, but primarily through our health and well-being area of learning and experience, where we can proactively explore difference of all kinds with our children and ensure that they are understanding, empathetic, respectful and knowledgeable about the very diverse communities that they will be growing in and that they will become, hopefully, an ethical, informed citizen of when they leave our school system.