Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:46 pm on 21 September 2022.
It's already happening in some schools in Wales. Schools support families in all sorts of different ways to ensure that they can access support more broadly. One of the considerations mentioned by the First Minister yesterday was the need to ensure that any contact between families and any public body allows people to understand the range of support available to them. One of the things, and perhaps the Member is aware of this, that we considered in the context of free school meals was how to remind families that, although they already access free school meals, if they are already eligible to receive certain support, that they know that and that they can inform the school of that so that the school can ensure they have access to that broader range of support that is already available. And there's also more to be done in terms of communication and ensuring that we as a Government also provide information to schools to support families in need.