Vaughan Gething: ...health boards and trusts. On a national level, recruitment continues to be supported by our successful ‘Train. Work. Live.’ campaign, alongside record levels of investment to support healthcare education and training, including additional medical school places.
Rebecca Evans: We are allocating in full the consequential of £38 million for 2019-20 as a result of funding allocated to the Department for Education in England, plus allocating nearly £10 million additional from reserves, to provide £47.7 million this year for maintained schools, including sixth forms and FE collages, to meet these costs.
Kirsty Williams: ...and experience, which will be mandatory, focuses on developing healthy relationships and understanding how these are fundamental to well-being. It is also proposed that relationships and sexuality education will be a mandatory part of a school’s curriculum.
Kirsty Williams: Learners can currently study politics through personal and social education and the Welsh baccalaureate. We are developing new resources, to help our young people develop as ethical, informed citizens who understand their rights and exercise their democratic responsibilities, and ensuring politically neutral materials and teacher support is available for schools.
Mark Drakeford: The decision to increase operations in schools from 29 June was guided by an approach based on equality of access, as all learners have a right to education and to be supported in their learning. This phased approach aims to mitigate the negative impacts on learners caused by COVID-19.
Kirsty Williams: I have been clear that emotional and mental well-being must be a priority as children return to school. It is one of the key principles in my decision framework for the next phase of education and it features prominently in the learning and operational guidance published in June.
Mark Drakeford: The Minister for Education has published operational guidance providing a framework for local authorities and schools to support all learners to return this term. The guidance sets out control measures that need to be taken to minimise the risk of transmission, including adhering to social distancing in the best ways possible.
Kirsty Williams: We are supporting schools in their efforts to deliver learning, given the range, scale and variability of disruption. We published our coronavirus control plan, which sets out our expectations for the operation of education and childcare settings at each of the stages in the wider coronavirus control plan for Wales.
Jeremy Miles: Local authorities in north Wales, in partnership with the GwE consortium, are primarily responsible for ensuring the quality of school education in their localities. The Welsh Government supports those efforts by providing a framework for evaluation, improvement and accountability and the implementation of the new Curriculum for Wales.
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: I am committed to the expansion of medical education in north Wales. We have made good progress in this respect through the collaboration between Bangor and Cardiff universities on their C21 programme, which is successfully facilitating opportunities for medical students to undertake a significant part of their study at Bangor University. The already established north Wales medical school...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...yw gwelliannau a fydd yn sicrhau gwelliannau diriaethol ac yn diogelu rhai gwasanaethau yng Nghymru am y tro cyntaf erioed. Byddaf yn edrych ar rai o'r meysydd gwariant ychydig yn fanylach. Medical education is something that I hope that there’s a growing consensus on in this place. We do have to ensure that our medical schools, and medical education more widely, do provide for the...
Mark Drakeford: ..., and if it’s helpful, I’m happy to update that for the current Finance Committee. Can I just attempt to answer some of the points raised by Mark Reckless, particularly in relation to the education MEG? As far as revenue is concerned, this supplementary budget contains three main additions to the education resources: £3.5 million to contribute towards student finance pressures, and...
Darren Millar: ..., Rhieni dros Addysg Gymraeg, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and many, many others—a chorus of voices, in fact—have expressed their concerns about the quality and lack of ambition of the Welsh in education strategic plans that have been produced by local authorities across the country. We know that we’re facing an uphill battle. We saw the number of Welsh speakers in Wales fall between...
Kirsty Williams: We recently consulted on revised school organisation code in respect of a presumption against the closure of rural schools and will publish our response in the summer. We have also introduced a new small and rural schools grant to encourage innovation and support greater school to school working.
Julie James: Responsibility for planning for accessibility in schools lies with local authorities and schools. To support them, we have published updated guidance in discussion with the office of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales. We are also making a substantial investment in schools through the twenty-first century schools programme, which will improve accessibility.
Kirsty Williams: Our statutory guidance, Healthy Eating in Schools, makes clear the responsibility rests on local authorities and school governing bodies to ensure that their school are compliant with the Healthy Eating in Schools Regulations which replaced Appetite for Life in 2013.
Llyr Gruffydd: .... Ond dyna ni, mi gawn ni’r ddadl yna rywbryd eto yng nghwrs y drafodaeth o gwmpas y darn yna o waith. Now, I’m from a generation, of course—or my parents were from a generation—where education was about getting your O-levels. Yes, I was the last year that stood or sat the O-level. You get your O-level, you get your A-level, you get to university and you get your degree. To be...
Janet Finch-Saunders: ...be properly used without the sufficient number of Welsh-language teachers in Wales? It's not just the lack of teachers to utilise the materials that concerns me. It's crucial that, with cuts to the education budget now announced by your Government, you ensure this company delivers on its stated mission and proves itself to be a good use of Welsh Government funding and efforts. We always...
Mark Drakeford: Based on the latest available information, all schools in Islwyn meet the current bandwidth targets of 10 Mbps to primary schools and 100 Mbps to secondary schools, set under the Learning in Digital Wales grant programme.
Kirsty Williams: The Welsh Government is committed to improving the continuity and progression in learning for all learners moving from primary to secondary school. We have legislation in place requiring secondary schools and their feeder primaries to draw up transition plans to support the transition of learners from primary to secondary school.
