Policy and Research

List of Welsh Government Guidance documents

School Governors Guide to the Law

Respect and resilience – developing community cohesion 2015

Welsh Statutory Instruments

Welsh Government Statistics and Research

Consultations – Have your say on what’s happening in Education

Draft Curriculum for Wales 2022 – Submit your comments by 19 July 2019

The new curriculum will be taught in all funded non-maintained settings and schools up to Year 7 from September 2022. It will then roll out year-by-year until it includes Year 11 by 2026.

Whether you work in education, support its delivery or have an interest in it, we recommend you make yourself familiar with draft Curriculum for Wales 2022 guidance before you provide feedback.

A learning inspectorate: listening, learning and changing together – submit your comments by 19th July 2019.

Consultation on our proposed transition year in 2020-2021. This consultation is the first in a series. Now is your chance to influence how inspection supports schools and other providers to manage the many changes taking place in education.

Draft Welsh in Education Strategic Plans Regulations (Wales) 2019 and guidance – submit your comments by 2nd September 2019.

Consulting on regulations that require local authorities to produce a Welsh in Education strategic plan.
4 public consultation events. The events will start at 10:00 a.m. and finish at 15:30pm:

• 13 June 2019, Ysgol Bro Teifi, Llandysul, Ceredigion
• 20 June 2019, Ysgol y Creuddyn, Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno, Conwy
• 24 June 2019, Ysgol Gwent Is Coed, Newport
• 4 July 2019, Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre, Pontypridd
  
  

Draft keeping learners safe guidance – submit your comments by 7th November 2019.

Consulting on draft guidance which includes:

• An overview of current policies to safeguard those in education
• Greater clarity on the specific duties placed on schools and colleges, and how they should be adopted by other education settings
• A safeguarding audit tool to support education settings to review their safeguarding arrangements.