11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Wel, mae'r cynllun sabothol yn un o'r ffyrdd lle rŷn ni'n gallu cefnogi athrawon i ddatblygu sgiliau Cymraeg. Felly, os edrychwch chi ar yr ystod ehangach o bethau rŷn ni'n eu gwneud, rwy'n credu bod y gyllideb sydd gyda ni yn ddigonol i fynd i'r cam nesaf…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, obviously I was disappointed in the census results, but I was also heartened by the results in the national survey, which shows the opposite trend. So, the task, as I was saying at the end of last year, now is for us to look at why those sources of data…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I would be concerned if that was the case, and we must make sure that it isn't the case, because the whole point of the new system is to be driven by the particular profile of needs of the individual learner—that's the entire rationale for the new…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, it's the same point that I made at the start, in a sense, which is, I think that being able to maintain the level of funding has been challenging in its own terms, really, across the piece. Obviously, this is a priority area for us, so I wanted to make…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes. Just to say, on the school improvement funding that we provide, that is only one source of school improvement funding as well. Local government themselves provide school improvement funding. I might ask Owain to say a little bit more about that in a…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes, absolutely. As I was saying, that's the purpose of the programme. We know that there is a link between a school's ability to teach in the appropriate way with the facilities the school has. So, that's why we want to make sure that pupils in all parts of…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, the entire programme was designed to address that, so we're in constant dialogue with authorities around their own schools, but also with dioceses where there are faith schools, with voluntary-aided schools and also with further education colleges. So…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, just to say, I don't wish to be particularly party political about it, but this is one of the most extraordinary aspects of the settlement from the UK Government: there is not a single penny allocated for capital in that budget. Where we are, you're…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, the money that has just gone into the budget is separate from the funding in the budget already for teachers' pay, so they're separate things. The teachers' pay funding was part of the negotiation for the last round of RSG, and this is money that has…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Certainly. So, the budget hasn't gone down by £5 million; one item in the budget has gone down by £5 million, but the net increase in the budget is the £9 million figure. So, the budget, taken as a whole, is £9 million higher this year than it was last year…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I'm sure we can do that, Chair.
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, this is one of the sources of support that we provide for students in further education. And I started, Chair, by talking about how challenging it has been just to maintain levels of funding across the budget. And this, I think, is one of those…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
So, universities are very alive to that and have a very good understanding of who's applying for funding and how to make sure that those perceptions are addressed. But there are also other sources of support that are available to non-Welsh domiciled students…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes, okay. Well, they obviously don't get the Welsh student support package, and, generally speaking, that [correction: other support packages], obviously—certainly within the UK and internationally—is [correction: are] not as supportive as the funding that…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Was that the—
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes. The pilot for that was extended to the end of this academic year. It was slowed down because of COVID, effectively, so we ran it longer. So, the pilot does come to an end at the end of this academic year. There are 45 schools running the pilot for us. I…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, as with every other time—. Every other time we've been able to extend it, we've been able to do that very near the point at which it's gone live, if you like, and the reason for that, I think, is twofold. One is that we want to identify the existence of…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Yes. Our principle in relation to that policy has, obviously, been to maximise the roll-out, really, as quickly as possible, given the cost-of-living pressures that families are under. There's been an increasing eligibility for free school meals, but we also…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, that's been where we’ve focused our efforts, really, to make sure that we don't need to do that. I think the programme for government and the co-operation agreement, obviously, are at the heart of what we're promising to deliver, so we've been able to…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, I suppose, in a way, it is defined by the needs of future generations, really, isn't it, given it's an education budget. It's all about making sure that we give future generations the best start in life. In a sense, that's the organising principle of…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I should say—and I think all Ministers will probably be saying this when they are being scrutinised on their budgets—it was probably one of the toughest budgets during devolution, really, to write. The economic backdrop is punishing, both in terms of the…
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch yn fawr, Gadeirydd, a bore da, a blwyddyn newydd dda i chi i gyd. Diolch am y sylwadau cychwynnol am y papur tystiolaeth—mae hynny'n cael ei werthfawrogi, felly diolch i chi am hynny.
11 Ionawr 2023 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Gyllideb Ddrafft Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023-24—sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch yn fawr.
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Cwestiynau Amserol
Diolch. Rwy'n cytuno â Sam Kurtz—mae hi'n bwysig ein bod ni'n ffeindio ffyrdd o hyrwyddo'r Gymraeg, a pharhau i ffeindio ffyrdd creadigol o wneud hynny, fel ei bod hi'n cŵl ac yn fodern i'r rheini sy'n mynd i glywed y neges honno'n bositif, efallai. Ond mae…
7 Rhagfyr 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau Amserol
Diolch i'r Aelod am y cwestiwn, ac mae'n gwestiwn pwysig iawn, rwy'n credu, os dŷch chi moyn mynd i'r afael â beth sy'n digwydd yn y ffigurau yma. Dyw'r cyfrifiad ddim yn dweud unrhyw beth wrthym ni am ddefnydd o'r Gymraeg, a dyw e ddim yn dweud unrhyw beth…
