Jeremy Miles: ...she says, to make sure this is streamlined and focused. I think the opportunity that establishing Adnodd represents is for it to be a focal point for creators, practitioners and other bodies in the education system to look to this body in order to give direction and obviously also to commission resources. What teachers have said is that they want to work with an organisation where their...
Jeremy Miles: The Member makes a series of very important points. She talked about the importance of children's own experience of schools, and I think that listening and the hearing of the voices of young people in this is very, very important. The £40 million capital that I announced recently is intended to enable schools to make the kinds of adaptations that schools sometimes do—to fence off areas, to...
Jeremy Miles: I thank Vikki Howells for those two questions. On the first question, one of the aspects of the job, which is a great pleasure actually, is being able to visit the initial teacher education partnerships across Wales, both remotely in the past, but now also in person, and talk to the cohort of students going through the postgraduate certificate in education about their experiences and...
Jeremy Miles: I thank John Griffiths, and I know of his commitment to the principle of community-focused schools, not least because of the successes in his particular area of many schools in achieving that, and I think he just highlights two important themes in what he has just said. Firstly, that role of school staff connecting with families around a range of issues, which might not be directly around the...
Jeremy Miles: ...to mention the importance of food as part of the summer food and fun programme—it's sometimes called 'food and fun', in some parts of Wales. I share with her her passion for making sure that schools teach young people about the whole range of purposes of food, so nutrition, obviously, but eating together. You could also teach large parts of the curriculum through food, and I most...
Jeremy Miles: Well, the Member made an important point about what are the biggest challenges, and I think possibly the biggest challenge that schools face is making sure that young people are in school. There are obviously very high levels of absence, which many, many schools are reporting. And the Member asked an important question about what the investment into community-focused schools and the family...
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Member for her observations and the questions that she has asked. She makes an important point, I think, about the ability of schools on their own to address the full impact of poverty on educational attainment. Schools are in their communities, they're in their society, and there are things that schools can do, and there are things that schools can't do, in terms of addressing...
Jeremy Miles: ...last 12 months, we've looked across the UK and internationally to inform policy, drawing on the expertise of organisations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Education Endowment Foundation. As I set out last year, we know from research and inspection evidence that schools that couple effective learning and teaching with a focus on family engagement are...
Jeremy Miles: .... Equity and inclusion are at the heart of both the additional learning needs system and the Curriculum for Wales, which aim to help ensure that all children and young people have access to an education that enables them to reach their potential.
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.
Jeremy Miles: ...pryderu nhw o ran pwysau costau byw. Yn addysg bellach ac yn addysg uwch, mae gan y Llywodraeth ystod o bethau rŷn ni'n eu gwneud i gefnogi myfyrwyr. O ran addysg bellach, rŷn ni'n parhau gyda'r education maintenance allowance. Rydyn ni'n sicrhau bod ffyrdd o ehangu cyrhaeddiad yr EMA, sicrhau bod pobl yn gallu cynnig o fewn y flwyddyn os ydy eu hamgylchiadau nhw'n newid, ac yn cael...
Jeremy Miles: The duty to ensure that suitable educational provision is made available for children and young people rests with local authorities. This includes a duty to promote high standards of education, fair access to education and a general duty to ensure there are sufficient schools in their area.
Jeremy Miles: Faith schools across Wales offer parents the opportunity for their children to be educated in accordance with their beliefs. Local authorities should therefore aim for a balance of provision between the types of schools that they maintain, whilst ensuring high-quality teaching and learning and curriculum coverage for all learners.
Jeremy Miles: We are committed to creating an inclusive education system. Our additional learning needs reforms put learners at the heart of the process to identify and meet their needs and will help ensure all pupils requiring additional support to meet an ALN have that support properly planned for and protected.
Jeremy Miles: We are committed to creating an inclusive education system. Our additional learning needs reforms put learners at the heart of the process to identify and meet their needs and will help ensure that all pupils requiring additional support to meet an ALN have that support properly planned for and protected.
Jeremy Miles: We expect that the new statutory guidance for elective home education will be implemented in April 2023 and that, in doing so, it will bring a range of benefits to electively home-educated children and young people in Wales, including those in Denbighshire.
Jeremy Miles: This Government has maintained our commitment to young people with the continuation of the education maintenance allowance in our programme for government. Coupled with funding made available to colleges via the financial contingency fund, this Government continues to support learners facing financial difficulty in continuing in further and higher education.
Jeremy Miles: Equity and inclusion are at the heart of education reform. Action taken to implement the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 will ensure all learners with ALN can access additional support for their needs, that is properly planned and protected, with learners at the heart of the process.
Jeremy Miles: ...hefyd yn sgil yr argyfwng costau byw. Felly, i'r teuluoedd, ond hefyd i'r athrawon a'r cynorthwywyr, mae pwysau penodol. Roedd hyn hefyd yn thema mewn cyfarfod roeddwn i ynddo fe ddoe, yr oedd yr Education Policy Institute wedi trefnu, i glywed beth oedd yn digwydd mewn rhannau eraill ym Mhrydain, ac mae'n ddarlun sydd yn digwydd mewn mannau eraill hefyd. Felly, mae'n flaenoriaeth i ni...
Jeremy Miles: On Monday, I announced plans about the roll-out of the co-operation agreement commitment to deliver universal primary free school meals. From September, children in reception classes will be the first to start receiving a free meal as part of these plans.
