, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 3
… cost of the school day, in terms of the cost of books, the cost of uniform, the cost of taking part in school trips, all the rest of it, will have, unfortunately, an impact. And although a lot …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: The cost-of-living crisis—The effect on schools and children
… parents because they don't have the ability to pay it. You do not go to school on the no-uniform days, because you don't want to ask your parents for a pound in order to not …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
… has been a change in this recently anyway. What we talk about as the 'school essentials grant' we just used to call the 'uniform grant'. It was available to pupils in year 7, and now it's available … high, and it has increased recently. Parents are still buying new uniform in each year group for young people. Anybody whose children have gone through school knows that. So, I think that's primarily still what …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
… across Wales, I'm talking about not just local authorities, but schools, FE colleges. Therefore, the information given to parents, children and young people is not uniform. For instance, one of the biggest issues that's coming … and there's confusion out there, although not uniformly. I need to be really clear. I don't think there's anybody sitting in a local authority or a school who's purposefully sitting there and doing this …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Child poverty
… become a Member of the Senedd? Well, I would hope, when I'm asked that question in schools, as you are, that it's because we wanted to make a difference, because we wanted to improve things … child in Wales who may go to bed hungry, who has an ill-fitting uniform, who can't go on that school trip, and who sometimes can't even go to school because their parents can't afford …
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1358 Review the inadequate funding for Schools in Wales
… what else do they need? We've got a uniform resale shop. We gift uniforms. We have, unfortunately, reduced the number of school trips. For instance, it cost £240 to run a minibus of 10 children over …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 6
… and how that induces absence, and we know the issues around the cost of the school day, those wear-your-own-uniform days, and you were talking about the bullying aspect of that, where children feel that they … they're staying away and then they feel like they haven't been part of an experience in school because they didn't go on the ski trip that everyone is then talking about. I was just wondering …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
… manual job now in washing, preparing the carrots, they need to be graded, schools and other customers want things to be uniform, so they fit in machines. So I guess we've sleep-walked into a position where … daily basis, and it's quite a scary place to be. So, the Welsh Veg in Schools project is critical in developing those horticultural chains. It's small now. We could upscale quite quickly, but we need that …
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
… top-up of £100 to all school years to address the costs of the school day, including physical education kit and additional uniform costs, and we're providing a £2 million package of support for vulnerable families, which …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 6
… make choices. And, I guess, from my point of view, things like free school meals, things like the support available to buy uniform, I don't think we have the levels of uptake of the the things that … with proportionally with high-risk groups. So, we need to be doing all that whole-school approach, the integration of mental health services, the curriculum, about when to seek help, how to seek help. We need to ensure …
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
… you, Heledd. Well, the guidance is statutory already, so schools and governing bodies do have to have regard to the guidance. The amended statutory guidance states that branded uniform, including the use of logos, should not …
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Tackling the impact of poverty on attainment
… health, having no coat, no shoes, period poverty, uniform costs, sports, music, food costs, caring and mental health—all of those impact, as does the extra money needed for school trips, which I know the Welsh Government …
, Plenary
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report, 'P-06-1482: Ban smartphones in all schools in Wales (with exemptions for exceptional circumstances)'
… they say. I will therefore be asking them to consider and advise on the most effective approaches for schools to encourage parental engagement, while also taking account of any impact on teacher workload. I will also be taking … the youth group suggested that stronger guidance and clearly, universally and uniformly applied rules would be more effective than a mobile phone ban during the school day. Their suggestions also included a greater need for education on the …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 4
… with that as well, and with enrichment activities comes non-uniform days out, and not all children can afford different items of clothing. When I was in school, it was all about very much designer brands, and …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pupil absence—evidence session 7
… attendance. In Japan, there's an emphasis on free schools, where you can choose your work, there's no pressure being placed on wearing a uniform, or that your hair has to be in a certain way. Are … not only to have a summer of fun, but make the whole process of learning and being at school a fun activity and a pleasurable activity for every individual as well …
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… find more money to pay for uniform, sports kit and equipment for their children. Some parents have warned that they simply cannot afford to send their children to school every day, and the cut to this grant comes …
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
… Prizes, under the sustainable development scheme. These include Cadoxton Primary School in Barry, which has a wonderful pay-as-you-feel shop, with a launderette and uniform store, to support poorer members of its community, and Cardiff Sixth …
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Additional learning needs
… James Evans stated that that wasn't something that's uniformly the case across the country. Jenny Rathbone suggested that the onus needs to be moved onto schools, that they need to be responsible for their pupils …
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Inquiry: Green Economy - Skills Providers
… come in and physically put a presence in schools by delivering resources and things like that? What leads to the good practice, and how can we increase the uniformity …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 3
… ascended to in terms of school, because it was the highest I ever wanted to ascend to, because of the love of it. And I think you'll find this uniformly across teachers, by the way: the love …