Commenting, Suzy Davies MS – the Shadow Minister for Education – said:
“It’s a relief that an option – even the ‘second-best one’ – was chosen to get our young learners back to school. However, I am perhaps a little concerned that the science from the experts we’re all meant to be following doesn’t seem to have reassured the unions, who reportedly pressured the Welsh Government into backtracking from an August return.
“Unions cannot – or should not – stonewall the direction that the Welsh Government takes, and I think the Welsh people need answers as to why extending this term seems to be less of an issue than bringing forward the Autumn term.”