7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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No, I probably wouldn't. I mean, I don't know what ideas you have in your head at the moment, but I guess I wouldn't agree with everything that everybody says everywhere, nor would any of us. In the context of RSE, what we are clearly indicating is that you…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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I think I answered some of those questions in my response to Sam earlier on. I am conscious of the fact that more parents are choosing elective home education. I am aware that we are looking at this in the context of some of the developments in England—that I…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Thank you for the question. I think it's clear in the guidance we have around this. The learning linked to RSE needs to be factual and pluralistic. That means schools must present a range of views held in society and not push a particular view. So, it is…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Yes, that work with Anna Freud is continuing.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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We are working on that now, and I expect the updated toolkit to be ready for that full public consultation early next year.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch yn fawr. A dwi hefyd yn moyn cydnabod pwysigrwydd yr elfen yma o'n system addysg ni. Mae e'n ofynnol bod ysgolion yn addysgu am hyn. Mae e wedi bod yn ddiddorol yn yr wythnosau diwethaf yma—mae pwysigrwydd adnabod achosion lle nad yw'r berthynas yn un…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch yn fawr am y cwestiwn. Dwi'n credu mai hon yw'r elfen anoddaf, o bosibl, o waith yn y maes hwn—nid jest yn yr enghraifft hon, ond yn hanesyddol hefyd. Mae mesur newid diwylliant yn beth anodd iawn i'w wneud, ond dwi'n credu ein bod ni wedi deall fel…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Oes.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch yn fawr am y cwestiwn. Rŷn ni wrthi yn adnabod yr awdurdodau lleol i weithio gyda nhw, i adnabod yr ysgolion yma ar hyn o bryd. Ond o bennu pa rai y byddwn ni'n gweithio gyda nhw, rŷn ni wedi edrych yn ofalus ar yr ystadegau o ran presenoldeb yn…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Thank you. I think we are willing to look at a wide range of support for these learners. We need them to be able to access the curriculum. We need their life chances to be enhanced, and we need to address the barriers that they currently face to achieving…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch yn fawr am y cwestiwn. Cymharol newydd, wrth gwrs, yw'r datblygiad o ran polisi mewn ysgolion uwchradd. Yn sicr, bydd gweld gwerthusiad neu effaith hwnnw yn cymryd rhywfaint o amser. Dwi ddim yn gwybod, Nic, os oes gennym ni unrhyw wybodaeth ynglŷn ag…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Not as yet, no, unless officials know anything more.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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I have concerns about the learners and the families and the workforce impacted by those closures, some of which seem to have happened with very little notice. So, a rupture like that in any child's education is something that all of us, I think, should be…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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I think that my very firm view is that this is a joint responsibility, and that's why I think we've done a lot of work on trying to work out what is the role of different parties in a successful education system. Parents and carers clearly have…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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It is a noticeable trend, as you say. I think we probably don't know quite enough about some of these decisions and how linked they are, for example, to additional learning needs or a feeling that needs are not being met in schools, or more complex areas of…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Yes, this has been persistent for a very long time, and a lot of interventions have been introduced to try to get to grips with it. But, as you say, it persists. I'm not familiar with the detail of what happened before I arrived, but Nic will be. But there…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Diolch yn fawr iawn, a byddwn i wrth fy modd yn mynd i Gilfach Goch i edrych ar y gwaith maen nhw'n ei wneud. Fel roeddwn i'n dweud yn fy sylwadau agoriadol, rwy'n mynd i ysgol bob wythnos, ac rwy'n gweld enghreifftiau o'r union beth y mae'r Cadeirydd yn ei…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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We are working very closely with local authorities already on some of this work, and they are, in fact, learning from some of the examples of things that they have done very effectively in supporting families, for example, in persuading learners back into…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Yes, thank you very much. Thank you for sharing that as well. It is a significant challenge for us. Learners who are persistently absent lose 10 per cent of their schooling time or more. That is a significant barrier to their being able to engage with both…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Yes.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Thank you. I think this is a point about alignment again, because, as Georgina, I think, mentioned earlier on, what Dysgu is tasked with doing is making sure that the support and professional learning it offers is of a very high standard, is rooted in…
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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As we have throughout, we have maintained very close contact and regular conversations to deal with the outstanding issues, and that remains the case now.
7 Hydref 2026 , Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee
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Thank you. I'll answer that, if I may, and then ask Georgina to speak more broadly on the education workforce plan. We have had conversations around this previously and, certainly, I'm not closing the door to that possibility because I do think it is vitally…
