Deputy Llywydd, may I thank those Members who've contributed on the code that is the subject of our debate today? May I first of all thank Sioned Williams for the way she framed her comments during this debate? The substance of contributions is important, but the tone is also very important on an issue as important as this, so I'm grateful to her for that, and for referring to the broad support that exists for the documents that are before us today and the work that's happened in a broad range of organisations, taking in a broad range of voices too, in order to create the policies and documents before us today—the kinds of voices that Darren Millar encouraged us to ensure to be allowed to contribute to the debate. They have contributed, and I  want to repeat her thanks to them for doing so.

Sioned Williams specifically asked me what changes have happened as a result of that consultation process. Well, there have been a broad range of changes, which just demonstrates the depth of the consultation responses that we received, in terms of rights, in terms of the UNCRC, in terms of principles around safety and in terms of the role of parents, which Darren Millar and Sam Rowlands mentioned. All of those have seen some advances and changes as a result of the consultation. Estyn worked with us to ensure that their work in our schools—and Sioned Williams referred to this—is looking at harassment, and that the fruit of that work was also incorporated into the code. So, I'm grateful to them for that.

There is more work needed in terms of professional training, there is more work needed in terms of resources, and those are an important part of the responses to the challenges described by Estyn, which are at the heart of many of the arrangements in place in this code today. She asked me what the contribution of the code would be to an understanding of LGBT communities; as a gay man myself I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to bring this code forward today, a code that is inclusive and which allows us to see our identity reflected in the debate within our schools in a very appropriate manner.