Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:53 pm on 24 May 2022.
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, Raheem Bailey, an 11-year-old boy who should have felt safe in his own school, had to have his finger amputated following a bullying incident. His mother, Shantal, has explained how Raheem has been subject to racial and physical abuse. Now, while Raheem's case, naturally, has shocked us all in Wales and has led to an outpouring of support for him from across the world, his experience is sadly by no means unique in Wales. Show Racism the Red Card's report into prejudice in the Welsh education system in 2020 found that 25 per cent of teachers had observed, responded to, or had a pupil report racial discrimination in the previous 12 months. Sixty-three per cent of pupils said they or someone they knew had been a target of racism. Is it time for the kind of wide-ranging inquiry into racism in Welsh schools that that report suggested, reviewing, for example, anti-racism training, resources for educators, data collection, bullying policies and Estyn's role in monitoring?