I very much look forward to the awarding of the Betty Campbell award in July, and I very much welcome the statement you've made today. I'm very glad that you have announced that you're going to extend the anti-racism activity to early years and further education, because, obviously, when children start in early years, they don't bring any racist baggage with them—it's learned from adults or older siblings. So, this is a great place to start, because they're completely blind to the different colours of people's skins, so that's absolutely fantastic and that's what we need to build on to ensure that everybody feels that way.

In the context of the level of institutionalised racism that exists throughout most institutions, and the resistance of the Home Office to even admit what's in the report that has been leaked about institutionalised racism in our immigration policies over the last 70 years, and the failure of the police to admit that they've got institutionalised racism in the police force, we clearly have a major problem unless we recognise the problem we've got. So, I think it's really complicated, a bit like other aspects of the new curriculum—relationships and sexuality education is complicated—but it's very exciting that we've got the new curriculum to enable us to deal with these matters.

There's a teacher called Jeffrey Boakye, who's about to publish a new book called I Heard What You Said. He's a secondary school teacher, author and broadcaster, and he argues that racism is a safeguarding issue and something that we should take that seriously. I just wondered whether you felt that that was the case. Clearly, he had the experience of being the only black teacher in the village or the school, and, clearly, this is a more complex problem in an area where there is less diversity.

I'm privileged to represent a community where 35 per cent of people in Cardiff in schools are from an ethnic minority, and how wonderful is that? But, it's much more difficult, it would seem to me, in areas where there's less diversity, so I wondered whether you would be considering having a greater focus on ensuring that people who are in a real minority in parts of our community are really being safeguarded to ensure that school continues to be a positive experience, rather than one that traumatises them.