If I may just focus on the £40 million investment that you mentioned in terms of the community-focused schools to improve the accessibility and community use of schools, obviously, that investment is welcome, but I’m still not clear how exactly they are going to help in terms of attainment, especially when we look at the connection between school absences and attainment, because, obviously, if we can’t even get our children and young people to school, then, obviously, they’re not going to be able to take advantage of any additional facilities there, and this seems to be a fundamental point.

I don’t see, in terms of your announcement today, for instance, who exactly will benefit from that investment, because there’s no mention in terms of transport costs, something that we’ve discussed many a time now as being a barrier, something that came through with the children and young people committee's inquiry into school absences. I’m still not very clear, in terms of that capital investment, how that’s going to help tackle the problem that we have now, and I wonder if any of this funding or funding being made available to the family engagement officers will be towards transportation at all.

Another issue I’d just like to mention is that, obviously, we know poverty affects every aspect of a child’s life and, in school, it can lock children out of opportunities to participate, learn and thrive, and research shows that children and young people from less affluent homes are more likely to report higher levels of loneliness, lower life satisfaction and no enjoyment in going to school. So, we know that transport can be a barrier for some, but, for some, school is not a good place to be. Worryingly, the social exclusion felt by low-income learners is frequently heightened by other forms of inequality, with lower income children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller and black groups more likely to say that they are lonely and unhappy at school compared to white Welsh or British children of a similar socioeconomic status. Will the Minister therefore provide an update on the Welsh Government's plan to target these groups who greatly feel social exclusion, and perhaps explain how this increase in funding or investment will support them?

Certainly, as I said at the beginning, we very much support any investment that helps to ensure that we lessen that attainment gap that exists presently. Of course, through the co-operation agreement, things like free school meals are absolutely essential, and we very much welcome them. But, in terms of secondary schools, obviously, that falls outside of the co-operation agreement, and therefore we would still ask, where there is opportunity, to look at the expansion of free school meal provision at the secondary age.