, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
We've committed over £1.6 million for STEM learning initiatives for the next financial year. This recognises that STEM is essential in preparing our children and young people for a fast-changing technological world.
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
So, our approach, as I mentioned in the answer to Jenny Rathbone, is to do a review of the regulations in their entirety to make sure that standards are driven through the regulatory change that we're planning to bring forward. So, we hope that will make the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I thank Jenny Rathbone for her question and for her consistent and passionate advocacy of this cause, and I have a great deal of sympathy with the arguments that she makes, as she will know from our discussions in other contexts. I had an opportunity to look…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
The Welsh Government has made a commitment to undertake a review of the healthy eating in schools regulations to consider the latest scientific research and recommendations concerning nutritional standards, including consideration of ultra-processed food…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, I accept that the targets in themselves aren’t enough, of course. We need to ensure that we are creative and continue to be creative in terms of how we approach this. But that’s part of the plan, of course, that we have in terms of the plan—. Well, we…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I thank Heledd Fychan for the way that she opened her question. It has been a pleasure to co-operate with her. I hope that I can continue to co-operate with you, whatever comes over the next few weeks. And it really is important that we do find ways to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I thank Sam Kurtz. Could I just say that I agreed with the first part of the question and his very kind remarks about that? It has been nice to collaborate with him, and also to have a Conservative spokesperson who is so supportive of the Welsh language is…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Just on the Member's first supplementary comment on my first answer, I don't think those organisations will be disappointed by my response. I think they will be pleased to hear a Government taking a range of considerations into account before announcing a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, the consultation has closed. The responses are being considered. It's a very much more mixed response than the Member suggests in his question. I've met myself with the Royal Welsh Show. I heard from them, at first-hand, their concerns about their…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I should say at the outset that, for the record, the responsibility for school nursing rests with the Minister for Health and Social Services, but I'm happy to respond to the question tabled today, although I think any similar questions or follow-ups might be…
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Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Certainly. The provision of nurses in schools is determined in line with local population health needs by the local health board.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I thank Russell George for that. I do think it's a much less likely scenario than that which Delyth Jewell outlined, but what we want to do—and you'll see this when the review is published in the coming days—is that there's an acknowledgement that it won't be…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you to Delyth Jewell for that important question. It is a good question. One of the challenges is the data on the reasons for parents choosing Welsh-medium education for their children, but there is a broader challenge that the Member has referred to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
The Minister for Climate Change and I met recently to discuss the findings of the internal review of the learner travel Measure and a statement will be made on the outcomes in due time.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I have visited a number of outdoor facilities that provide the kind of support that you're describing, and it is a really valuable part of the offer, isn't it, across the board. You will know that this is the first year where the new reforms are flowing…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
It sounds fantastic—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, the funding that we're providing through the new combined grants for the roll-out of the whole-school approach to well-being will have terms and conditions attached to it that will require that funding to be used for that purpose, because it's still an…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, there's already work that we do in relation to this. So, Lynne Neagle, as the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being, and I co-chair an oversight board that does a number of the items of work that you're referring to there. I think you're…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
There are, yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, the purpose of the new bus Bill will be to re-regulate the bus network in Wales and reverse the terribly negative effects of Conservative deregulation in the 1980s. So, I hope that that will provide a more coherent and rational basis for a public bus…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Well, we have a particular technology programme that supports teaching subjects—not just languages—where the cohort isn't large enough to, if you like, justify a class, such as e-sgol. I don't have the latest stats on that, but I could share what we do have…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
It's early days, but it will be interesting to see the impact, over a period of time, of the increase in the number of schools that can now access the Taith programme and create a network with schools in Europe and beyond. Almost every school that I visit…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
There are two parts to that question, I think. I don't think that, from the last time that I looked at the data—I'd need to look again to get the latest details—there's a challenge in terms of standards. When people study these subjects, the standards are…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
I think it might be useful for us, perhaps, to report on the work of the taskforce from time to time, because much of this is part of the ongoing agenda of the taskforce. So, perhaps we can make a statement in the Senedd on that, or I can write to you. But…
