School Places

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 12 October 2022.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 1:34, 12 October 2022

I'm content the guidance is sufficient to enable authorities to do that. Bridgend is a local authority that has more primary school places, in both Welsh and English-medium provision, and similarly in secondary provision, than there are pupils on the roll. There will be, as I discussed with Sarah Murphy a moment ago—. We are not, unfortunately, in the position where parents are always able to have the school of their first choice—that's not the system that we run. There's a balancing between that choice and the availability of places locally to that school, but, on a local authority basis, I can assure you that there are sufficient places to meet the demand that arises.