Schools

Publish a Literacy and Numeracy Plan and raise standards by establishing national targets, including a baseline assessment for learners entering school. We will support our workforce to develop individual targets for all learners.

Raised in 49 speeches, 1 agenda item and 6 written questions. Most recently on 21 October 2026, by Stephen Senior. Matched on: “literacy and numeracy”.

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Review curriculum and assessment arrangements to simplify and clarify expectations for schools and settings. This will include ensuring clear expectations for knowledge and education about our nation’s culture and history.

Raised in 35 speeches and 1 petition. Most recently on 21 October 2026, by James Evans. Matched on: “Welsh history”.

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Develop a coordinated framework bringing together schools, health and social care, and youth services to address behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and educational inequality. These also reflect wider societal issues, and we will work across government to address them. We will improve professional learning, reporting of incidents and information sharing between schools, and test implementation through our Community Schools Plus pilots.

Latest figure: Secondary school attendance, 89.1%, 2025/26.

Raised in 13 speeches. Most recently on 21 October 2026, by Stephen Senior. Matched on: “pupil behaviour”.

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Strengthen the long‑term sustainability of the Additional Learning Needs system. We will work in partnership, including with health partners, to strengthen system clarity, capacity and workforce confidence to deliver inclusive education in Welsh and English, so that children and young people receive the right support at the right time to meet their needs.

Raised in 199 speeches, 1 agenda item, 15 written questions and 3 petitions. Most recently on 22 October 2026, by Sam Rowlands. Matched on: “ALN”.

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Grow the proportion of children and young people receiving Welsh‑medium education, and improve accessibility to Welsh‑medium education, setting local targets to ensure the steady growth of Welsh‑medium provision in all schools.

Raised in 64 speeches and 4 written questions. Most recently on 21 October 2026, by Anna Brychan. Matched on: “Welsh-medium education”.

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Increase the number of students able to access tertiary pathways in Welsh, supporting and developing the work of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and working with the Coleg and Medr to increase opportunities to study Welsh as a subject.

Raised in 4 speeches. Most recently on 28 September 2026, by Anna Brychan. Matched on: “Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol”.

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Support an increase in the number of teachers able to teach through the medium of Welsh, promoting and developing the Welsh‑language skills of practitioners and developing new sabbatical opportunities.

Raised in 9 speeches. Most recently on 7 October 2026, by Anna Brychan. Matched on: “teach through the medium of Welsh”.

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Work with our education workforce and social partners to make teaching an attractive, respected and rewarding career.

Too general to match reliably, so not tracked.

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Improve recruitment and retention by reducing workload, providing more flexibility for planning, preparation and assessment and supporting high‑quality professional development for all teachers, leaders and teaching assistants.

Latest figure: Qualified teachers, 22,660, 2025/26.

Raised in 9 speeches. Most recently on 22 September 2026, by Sera Evans. Matched on: “teachers' workload”.

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Build on our increase of the Initial Teacher Education Priority Subject Incentive from £15,000 to £20,000 to help attract more teachers into shortage subjects and explore opportunities to increase this further.

Raised in 3 speeches and 2 written questions. Most recently on 7 October 2026, by Mair Rowlands. Matched on: “initial teacher education”.

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Strengthen safeguarding leadership and governance across education by ensuring learners and educators can recognise and report grooming. We will provide comprehensive digital safety and media literacy education, and ensure safeguarding and educational standards are consistently upheld and independently scrutinised.