6. Motion under Standing Order 26.91 seeking the Senedd's agreement to introduce a Member Bill — Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:57 pm on 26 October 2022.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 3:57, 26 October 2022

Thank you very much for taking the intervention, because as the former leader of Monmouthshire council, you'll be aware that the PDG is one of the ways in which funding is supposed to be directed at giving opportunities to young people whose families can't afford to pay for it themselves. So, having listened carefully to what Sam Rowlands said about the inverse care law going on here, which is that some of the most deprived local authorities are the ones that are having the least outdoor education, it clearly is a major problem. But we have to surely ask, 'Are schools properly using their pupil development grants?' as well as, we have to consider how well we are addressing the inverse care law when it comes to the numbers of voluntary organisations that are supporting schools to enable these sorts of outdoor trips to take place, because we know that charities are far less likely to be operating in poor areas than they are in better-off areas.