Mark Drakeford: The Gwent missing children hub successfully brings together the police, social services, health and education when children go missing or run away from home. The hub works together to share information and assess the risks that these young people may face, to improve their lives and make children safer.
Mark Drakeford: The School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 requires that, before school organisation proposals are published, they must first be subject to consultation. Our school organisation code sets a high standard for consultation, ensuring those with an interest can express their views and those views are conscientiously taken into account.
Carl Sargeant: ...improvements. Outcomes for families in Flying Start areas may now be comparable with families in less disadvantaged areas. We are piloting a project to better understand the health and educational outcomes of Flying Start children.
Llyr Gruffydd: ...like to ask you, Cabinet Secretary: what would you say to those people who felt, according to the research again from Qualifications Wales, that allowing only the first result to count towards a school performance measure would essentially be no different to completely removing the option of early entry because of the pressures that have been playing out previously, that the same pressure...
David Lloyd: ...future. This centralisation isn’t just a problem facing the south west of Wales, of course; we need to see the Welsh Government developing a vision for north Wales too and investing in a medical school in Bangor and other such proposals. Given our geography in terms of the areas of excellence here, Morriston Hospital has the potential to be a regional centre of excellence, which could...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...and recruit 1,000 extra doctors. A 10-year plan, with marginal gains, involving a range of policies: financial incentives; making the NHS more attractive for doctors to work; investments in medical education and training, including the development of medical training in the north. In 2016, we added the training and recruitment of 5,000 nurses and midwives over a 10-year period. We know...
Bethan Sayed: ...That’s something we could go for straightaway in relation to encouraging them to move and to teach through the medium of Welsh. You were really passionate in the committee about English language education. When we did outreach, I went to the one in Swansea and, you know, we were hearing that. We were hearing that young people liked to learn but they felt that sometimes the things that...
Kirsty Williams: Life-saving skills are an important part of education in Wales and I am pleased that over 99 per cent of maintained schools are participating in the Welsh network of healthy school schemes. Safety is one of the scheme’s seven topics and requires curriculum schemes of work to cover first aid.
Adam Price: ...principle for us, and that’s what we tried to do with the agreement, but it’s also about investing in our future, so it’s good to see an additional £40 million there for higher and further education. Young people are absolutely our most critical resource—true for any country and certainly true for us. There is £6 million, as well, for young farmers to actually ensure that we have...
Llyr Gruffydd: ...have raised with you concerns about and worries that there are many flaws in the way that that is currently operating. You say that you’ll agree a long-term model of assessment and evaluation of schools—where does that, potentially, leave school categorisation? Will you be moving away from what some people see as contentious traffic light systems? I think there’s been a suggestion...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...gennym ni ym mharodrwydd y Llywodraeth i fod yn arloesol ac yn uchelgeisiol mewn perthynas â gweddill yr argymhellion? Here we have a well-evidenced call for the establishment of a new medical education centre in Bangor. Of course there’ll be barriers, but those barriers will never be overcome as long as this Government appears unwilling to push the boundaries of the possible. We have,...
Ken Skates: Children can be exposed to higher levels of pollution when travelling to and from school than when on school grounds. I recently issued guidance instructing local authorities to give special consideration to the risks posed to children by air pollution, whether at home, in school or travelling between the two.
Carwyn Jones: ...a passion to learn throughout their lives, inspiring them with the ambition to be the best they possibly can be. A prosperous Wales needs creative, highly skilled and adaptable people, so quality education from the earliest age will be the foundation for a lifetime of learning and achievement. Finally, a united and connected Wales. We will build a nation where people take pride in their...
Mark Drakeford: ...of responsibility for Careers Wales to the Minister for Skills and Science, £18.8 million in revenue funding and £6 million of annually managed expenditure funding has been transferred from the education main expenditure group to the economy and infrastructure MEG. No budget has been cut as a result of the supplementary budget, and any negative adjustments at MEG level are offset by...
Mark Drakeford: ..., but with a requirement for them to come together to consider the coherence of their plans across the south-west region as a whole. For other services, mandated regional working, such as on education improvement, will be for regional joint governance committees to determine and to decide upon the most suitable collaborative footprint, within a statutory framework. There will also be scope...
Kirsty Williams: The all-Wales attendance framework provides standards and guidance for practitioners to help reduce absence and improve attendance in Welsh schools.
Alun Davies: ...language belongs to us all. It is our inheritance. It is a part of us all. This is a vision where we each share our country and share our cultures together. I want all of our children to leave school confident in not only understanding the basics of the language, but also the culture that it underpins and the history that has made us the people we are today. I am determined, and this...
Bethan Sayed: ..., what I’ve heard from so many young carers is that they wouldn’t give up their responsibilities, but what they need is more support, more recognition of their role and more flexibility from school, health professionals and others when it comes to juggling what they do at home with the rest of their lives. I recognise that there are requirements under the Social Services and Well-being...
Mark Drakeford: ...the roll-out of the Welsh Local Government Association’s summer holiday programme, Food and Fun. This programme provides a free, healthy breakfast and lunch, along with a suite of enriching and educational activities that seek to tackle learning loss.
Mark Drakeford: The reforms that were announced in November in response to the Diamond Review will create a sustainable student support and higher education funding system for Wales. This will make Wales the only country in the UK to implement a system providing parity for undergraduate full-time, part-time and postgraduate students.
