Written question WQ93453
- Asked by
- Gareth DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Education
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 7 days
Question
How is the Welsh Government supporting asylum seeker pupils to progress and remain in the academic year that corresponds to their English reading and writing age?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Education
The Curriculum for Wales has been developed to be inclusive and accessible to all learners so that every learner, regardless of need and background, is enabled to progress to reach their full potential. The Languages, Literacy and Communication Area of learning and experience, supports learning across the whole curriculum and includes support for practitioners when considering progression of learners with English as an additional language.
The Welsh Government, via the Local Authority Education Grant, provides over £160m in funding to local authorities to support equity in education provision, with £11m of that directed towards support for black, Asian and minority ethnic (including asylum seekers and refugees) and gypsy roma traveller learners. This funding supports learners who experience barriers to learning, the curriculum and education such as linguistic or language, cultural, and/or systemic and institutional barriers.