I thank Laura Anne Jones for that very important range of questions, and I agree with much of the thrust of her questioning. I do agree that the role of online bullying and racist bullying and racist harassment is a very important part of this picture, and the resources that we are working on will support both learners and teachers and teaching assistants in being able to engage with that. We will continue our work in engaging with the UK Government to make sure that both Governments are doing absolutely everything that they can to address that really important issue.

She made a very important set of points about the diversity of our education workforce in Wales. Our education workforce is not as diverse as the learners in the classrooms that they teach, and that is true, actually, in all parts of Wales, both rural and urban. So, I want to see that picture improved in all parts of Wales. I know that she wasn't suggesting that shouldn't be the case, but I do think it's important to set that expectation in all parts of the geography of Wales. This is the first academic year—from 2023 onwards—where we will have introduced a specific financial incentive to encourage students from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take up initial teacher education, and we will do more, as she will have seen from the plan, to work with ITE partnerships to increase the visibility and presence within their curricula of the anti-racist approaches that we want to see for all our teaching workforce.

But in addition to encouraging students into the profession, it's really important to support teachers and teaching professionals from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities who are already in the system, and an important part of that is progression, so that we can see school leaders that young professionals can look up to as an inspiration for their own career paths, and we are a very long way from being able to say that that is the reality. The discussions that I've had with BAMEed Network and others has really focused on that as being an important part of our plans into the future. There's a role there for governors as well in understanding progression, recruitment to the senior leadership teams, and so on. So, at each level, if you like, of a professional journey or the school's governance, there is work to be done, and she will have seen in the plan that we've embarked upon that, focusing on ITE, but there is certainly much more that we plan to do, as is set out.

I do agree with what Laura Anne Jones said, that we need to be able to ensure that all teachers, whether they have the lived experience of racist incidents or not in their own lives, are able to handle confidently and sensitively issues that arise in school and that affect the life of the school. And so the DARPL project is very much based on upskilling, if you like, professionals generally to be able to deal with issues of harassment and bullying, for them to be reported, for the data to be captured and for responses to be given that are appropriate and very clearly in accordance with our commitment to an anti-racist education system. And, as she was saying, the role of leaders in that is also very important. She will have noted the additional funding to the National Academy for Educational Leadership, which is intended to encourage them to look at the diverse workforce and the role specifically of leaders in supporting their schools to be able to play their part in creating an anti-racist Wales. So, that's very much part of the plans that we are setting out today.

And finally, she made a very important point about the resources available for teachers to be able to teach the new curriculum, but also to adopt the anti-racist approaches that the plan sets out today. We're working with external suppliers on the development of new materials that will support teachers to teach black, Asian and minority histories and experiences as part of the new curriculum. The supplier is now in a research phase, if you like, and is engaging with external organisations, and obviously with professionals, with teachers and others as well, as we develop that. I'll have more to say about that in due course, but that work is under way.