, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Okay. Thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
So, if this was to proceed, do you think this could be an area that should be amended, then, to make that period longer?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
If the Senedd does give leave for this piece of legislation to continue proceeding, and it one day perhaps comes into law, the code must be issued within one year, because of all other sub-Acts, which means it has to. What's your view on the timescale of that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
You mention the code, and it does place a duty on the Ministers to provide that code, the residential outdoor education code. I'd just like to get your views on this, and in which way you think that could interact with the curriculum. Would it cause any…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
The Bill does require Welsh Ministers to take all reasonable steps to ensure that children have a course of outdoor education, if they want to take it—it's in the explanatory memorandum. In your opinion, what kind of steps would the Welsh Ministers and the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Minister, thank you for coming today. Do you think that the Bill achieves an appropriate balance between what is on the face of it and what is left for Welsh Ministers to determine, via regulation-making powers?
, Plenary
Short Debate: Structuring a social care system fit for a twenty-first century Wales
I'd like to thank Gareth Davies for bringing this short debate to the Chamber today, because we all know the link that social care has to actually relieve the pressures on our wider health service here in Wales. We all know that there are far too many people…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Do you agree with me, on that point—and I know the Minister was making some comments there—a lot of my constituents feel that, when they make complaints to health boards directly, it feels like the health board are marking their own homework, sometimes, and…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Healthcare inspection and funding
Russ, will you give way?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I thank the Minister for his answer. We had a long discussion about this in committee this morning, about teaching assistants. But a lot of the teaching assistants who I speak to—. They are vital in delivering the new Curriculum for Wales, but a lot of them…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
2. What is the Welsh Government doing to support teaching assistants in schools? OQ60498
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, no-one can doubt that we need to make our social homes more sustainable and not just our social homes but our private homes as well, to make them carbon neutral, to make our homes warmer and to keep energy bills low for the people who live in them…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay. Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Because time is a big thing as well, isn't it? As you're well aware, a lot of teaching assistants only have term-time contracts as well, and a lot of them, when they're out of term, have to go and do other jobs as well. So, actually, the ability to go and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
I've just got some questions on teacher training, if that's okay, Minister. We tend to hear a lot from teaching assistants, who say they don't have enough time or enough opportunity to go on to do any training, to go on to get further qualifications to become…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Diolch, Gweinidog. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Yes. It's how much is allocated to it.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay. I just want to move on to Cymraeg in education. I know a strategic objective of the Welsh Government is to strengthen Cymraeg in education. So, I'm just interested in how the new amalgamated local authority education grant will support that, and can you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
A recent example of that was discontinuing year 7 free school breakfasts, to save £800,000 a year and not continuing the holiday free school meals. As I say, it's a Government balancing act, but it's just interesting how you've weighed up things like that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay, that's fine. You say that supporting those who are most vulnerable to the costs of living remains a priority for you and a priority for the Government. How exactly did you go around allocating the budget with that guiding principle in mind?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Okay, lovely. The additional £10.9 million that's been put in the local authority education grant for school standards—I'm just interested in how you think that's going to be used. And did the recent Programme for International Student Assessment results…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Will this funding still be distributed by the regional consortia, or is there going to be another mechanism for distributing this funding?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Scrutiny, or something.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
Yes. Is any of this money going to be ring-fenced?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - evidence session 2
That's fine. I'm sure, as a committee, we can write to the other Deputy Minister on this issue. Okay, I want to talk about the amalgamation of the 21 individual grants, if that's okay? One thing that we heard from headteachers—actually, this was quite…
