I thank Vikki Howells for those questions. I think that the relationship between Mudiad settings and early years in particular around the deployment and recruitment of teaching assistants who are able to provide their services and the important work that they do through the medium of Welsh is a really exciting possibility, actually. So, it's quite a complex area and it's one where there's private sector provision, there's obviously local authority provision and there's Mudiad Meithrin provision, all employing staff. And what I'm hoping that we can achieve through the plan is for us to look at whether there are opportunities for there to be recruitment together, on a kind of joint contract basis, between different settings and schools so that it can be more attractive, perhaps, for people to come into the support professions by looking at that as a kind of joint enterprise, if you like. It's quite complex, but we have been talking to our partners about how we could explore the possibility of doing that. And I think that that will support the point that she was making in her question about transition from nursery settings into early years and then through to primary in that seamless way.

It's an important part of this plan, as she was indicating in her question, to also be looking at the recruitment of teaching assistants. I think it's important to look at the landscape of recruitment as a whole, because one part impacts on the other. And I was with Huw Irranca-Davies in a school in his constituency this morning talking to the head about exactly this, about how important it is to focus on Welsh language recruitment across the entire school workforce, if you like.

And there are some, I think—I hope—creative suggestions in the plan that we will take forward. One is around providing work experience for learners to undertake work experience in schools as teaching assistants, the other is an idea that we're piloting at the moment around funding a gap year for those leaving sixth form before they go on to whatever stage they might consider next to provide them with the opportunity of a funded gap year, if you like, between other stages in their careers to encourage them, perhaps, to consider teaching, being a teaching assistant through the medium of Welsh, and I think a significant increase in the professional learning available to teaching assistants through the medium of Welsh so that they can make sure that their language skills are what they wish them to be. So, I think that there is a range of ways in which we are trying to think imaginatively about recruiting this important part of the school workforce.