Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:14 pm on 28 June 2022.
Amendments include changes to the Education Act 1997 to ensure provision of careers education and information for all children of compulsory school age across schools and settings, including pupil referral units and further education institutions. Careers and work-related experience is a cross-cutting theme running through the Curriculum for Wales framework. These amendments secure this provision, ensuring consistency, as far as is possible, in the delivery of developmentally appropriate learning. The regulations replace terminology associated with the current national curriculum, with terminology aligned with the 2021 Act. The intention is to phase in the changes in line with the ongoing implementation of the 2021 Act across year groups. These regulations, although relatively minor in nature, are necessary to ensure a consistent approach to handling and terminology throughout primary legislation, and, as such, I commend them to Members.