Relationship Teaching

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 12 February 2020.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:11, 12 February 2020

Presiding Officer, the Member is right: this is a rights issue. It is a children's rights issue, and all children have the right to receive education that will keep them safe from harm, that will protect them and will give them the skills and the knowledge that they need to become healthy, confident individuals. And that approach to children's rights lies at the heart of my decision. 

We've just heard from another Member of the importance of coercive control and ensuring that our children and young people know what that looks like, and what to do if it happens to them. It is exactly examples like that that means we have to ensure that all children have the right to receive these lessons going forward.