The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young People

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 6 October 2020.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:38, 6 October 2020

(Translated)

Of course, these issues go hand in hand. We do know that the period of coronavirus has been an extremely difficult period for a great number of young people here in Wales. That is why we have strengthened the services that we have to support young people—more funding for higher education and further education to support the well-being of young people as they study, more funding for our schools so that we could have more people to assist within the services that we already offer, and also more support through Meic. As I'm sure Rhun ap Iorwerth knows, Meic is a telephone line where young people can speak to others up to midnight. We have also given more funding to Meic, so that those services will be available throughout the current financial year. And, of course, we are collecting data in the programmes that we run and we publish that data. If there is anything specific that Rhun ap Iorwerth wishes to see, of course I'd be very happy to discuss that with him and to give him that information if it's available.