School Places

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 12 October 2022.

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Photo of Altaf Hussain Altaf Hussain Conservative 1:33, 12 October 2022

Minister, in 2011, the Welsh Government published a circular called 'Measuring the capacity of schools in Wales', to support local authorities to plan school places, to report on surplus capacity and to set school admission numbers. Now, using data, as my colleague Sarah Murphy has rightly said—we use data to plan our school places—is vital, like birth rates, the number of new-build homes, migration data and new families moving to new areas. So, what is the Minister now doing to ensure that any supporting guidance is fit for purpose to support local authorities in planning school places now and for the future?