, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Absolutely, Minister—it's an invaluable role, and it's better late than never, I suppose. It's not just a crisis with support staff though, is it? From my conversations with the Education Workforce Council and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, since 2017, 40 per cent of school support staff registered with the Education Workforce Council have left. There's clearly a massive retention problem at the heart of Welsh education, which is causing the industry to lose…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
That's good. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
That's interesting. Thank you. In terms of its success, you've given us an idea of that already, and you want to see it rolled out over Wales—you obviously think it's working. But I'm just wondering if we could delve into a bit more detail. You've said that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 8
Thank you, Chair. It's great that you seem to already have all this support, judicial support and everything that you've mentioned already, and we've already touched on this, but what are the biggest challenges facing the operation of the FDAC model itself…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you. That's very useful. If I could just ask you, what are the biggest challenges facing children and families that you are seeing in the family courts? Are there any issues that are specific to Wales? Do you have any comments on the scale of the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 7
Thank you, Chair, and thank you for joining us today. What are the main things you think this committee should be considering when looking at the big changes needed to secure better outcomes for care-experienced children? I know that, Sir Andrew, you've…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform - evidence session 6
Thank you, and apologies for being late. Thank you for your evidence today. Baby and Me is clearly, from evidence we've heard previously as well, a shining light and an example of best practice. So, well done you, and I hope that it's something that is taken…
, Plenary
Debate: The Draft Budget 2023-24
Today's debate is a crucial one. Having heard the initial headlines from the statement back in December, I thought that Welsh Government had finally had an epiphany and come to the realisation that it’s time to properly fund and support our education system…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: The LGBTQ+ Action Plan
—discussing a plan that you don't have many of the powers to change or implement. Wales having its own self-identification plan is a nonsense. It's clear from public opinion, Deputy Minister, that people see the importance of protecting women and children…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: The LGBTQ+ Action Plan
Of course, Deputy Minister, we all want the best for the LGBTQ+ community and we want to see a fairer Wales. But, as I read through this plan today, I read some of it with disbelief, and I find a lot of this plan genuinely concerning: pushing gender ideology…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Is it down to personalities, for example?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Yes. Just quickly coming back on that, I understand what you say and I understand the reasoning behind what you're saying, but they are saying they are struggling, so I don't really understand how we get around that. If it's too loose, how are we going to—. I…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Just coming in on that, from the schools I've visited, a lot of the feedback from teachers is they don't feel supported when it comes to this new way of assessing children, and a lot of them are actually, by default, going back to how they used to assess, to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Thank you very much. Thanks, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
So, just quickly, you’re saying that recruitment and retention of teachers is a pretty high priority at the moment, in some subjects particularly.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Thank you. You managed to answer all my questions then. I’ll just add an extra few questions on top of that. You’ve highlighted what we’ve all seen, that literacy, numeracy and oracy have been severely affected, and I’m just wondering—do you think this is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Estyn Annual Report 2021-22
Thank you, Chair. You've indicated today and in your report that the pandemic continued and continues to cast a dark shadow over the education system in 2021-22, but also continually. To what extent have some of the negative impacts on learners' education and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Services for care-experienced children: exploring radical reform—evidence session 4
I can't see, sorry. Yes, okay, thank you very much, Chair. And, as you said earlier, Helen Mary, it's about the continuity and building those relationships, with the same advocates going into those homes. But, if I move on to the next question, which is: how…
