Thank you very much to the Member for those questions and for listing the challenges. I’m sure she is eager too to celebrate the successes in our education system and all of the work being done in our classrooms on a daily basis to provide the best possible education for our young people. I’m sure that she would acknowledge that too.

In terms of her specific questions, I'll do my best to respond to at least some of them. The impact of COVID on schools, of course, is significant. The Estyn report that we will be discussing later on this afternoon gives an analysis of some of the impacts on our schools.

We have succeeded in the coming financial year in increasing what we had intended to contribute to the fund that supports schools to deal with the impacts of COVID. We were expecting to have to decrease that, but, because the impact was so significant, we have been able to maintain that fund, and it's clear from the analyses that have been done across the United Kingdom that the funding and the ways of spending that money that we have provided here in Wales is on the more generous end of the scale with regard to the interventions across the UK, and that they have been invested in the most progressive ways.

In terms of attendance, this is a significant challenge, as the Member said in her question. She will know about the work that we have done in terms of the review by Meilyr Rowlands to look at what more we can do. As part of that, we are updating the requirements and the guidance for schools with regard to how to tackle that. The current threshold for further support for families where children are absent is higher than perhaps it should be in the context that we are currently working in. So, one of the things that we hope to do is lower that threshold before we provide additional support for families.

She'll see that we have announced recently funding to support local authorities to fund officers to work with families to encourage them to send their children back to school and to work with the children themselves to ensure that the relationship is renewed and to attract young people back to school after a period that has been very difficult for them. So, it’s a relationship of trust and tailored support, and I think that that’s the way of ensuring and delivering that, but additional support is needed by the system for that, and that’s the purpose of the investment that I've described.

In terms of post-16 provision, that’s an important element. I will say that the intention of this document isn’t to list every policy that the Government is committed to, but to give a timetable for the main things that have a requirement of the profession, if you will. But she will be aware, from the work that we have done jointly with Plaid Cymru as part of the co-operation agreement, that significant investment has been made into the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. One element of the coleg's work that is so valuable is what they do to increase the provision of apprenticeships through the medium of Welsh, but, of course, there is more to do in that regard too.

In terms of workload, it's right to say that this is a cause of concern for many teachers. We have been working creatively and positively with the teaching unions over the past few weeks to be able to achieve the plans that have been in train for some time to decrease the workload and to do that in a way that is co-ordinated across the system. So, I very much hope that members of the unions will approve the proposals that have been made, but we have a programme of work that I am confident will improve the situation in terms of workload for practitioners the length and breadth of Wales.

She'll know already, of course, that there is an important role for the Welsh language in education Bill in providing a clearer framework in terms of what local authorities will provide in terms of strategies, and I'll be able to see more about that jointly with Cefin Campbell over the coming weeks.