 Boreda, a diolch am mi nôr gadaf i hefyd. Good morning, thank you for joining with me today. Rhaishah Dweud, rhywbeth hefyd am y gyfnogeth i ni'n rhoi o'r anlesiant a'i eich hyd yn gweithlu athysg. I want to say something today about the progress of our commitment to supporting the mental health and well-being of our education workforce. As you will obviously be aware, there are ongoing discussions with teaching and head teacher unions. Alongside issues related to pay, we've also been discussing a series of non-pay issues in relation to workload. The meeting which we had last week was constructive and we will be working with unions over the coming days to continue to try and make progress. In the meantime, I also wanted to provide an update on additional steps that we've been working on for some time. Given the link between workload and well-being, this is part of an overall strategy to support workforce well-being, reduce workload for senior education leaders leading to a positive impact on the wider education workforce. In Wales we have a whole-school approach to mental health and well-being. We want all children and young people to grow up healthy, safe and happy. Learning about mental health and emotional well-being is now a mandatory part of the curriculum for Wales for all schools. We've more than doubled mental health support for schools since before the coronavirus pandemic to over £12 million a year. Our school counselling services currently see over 11,000 learners each year. The funding has been used to improve and expand services, including extending provision to younger children below the current year 6 threshold. But we know that to support our children and young people, it's vital that we also support our workforce. Education support is the only UK charity with expertise in supporting the mental health and well-being of the education workforce. They undertake fantastic work here in Wales, and that's why today I am announcing a significant expansion of their work. The school well-being service, which they provide, is free for schools across Wales with a focus on staff well-being. Well-being advisers work with schools to provide resources and advice on policies, practices and strategies that can support staff mental health and well-being. The £600,000 additional funding I'm announcing today will increase the number of well-being advisers who will be able to support schools to transform their school cultures and improve well-being. Through this programme, schools will be guided by experts to develop tailored approaches for their particular setting and to help them to meet the statutory requirements under the whole school approach. The two strands of support are firstly access to a school advisory service, which gives schools access to open, honest and non-judgmental conversations about how to make improvements backed up by actionable advice and support, and secondly, the well-being support and development service, which provides in-depth development opportunities to keep staff feeling motivated, engaged and effective in their roles. The service has already been running for two years, and independent feedback has been very positive. 96% of participants said they are very satisfied with the service, and 100% said that well-being advisers were very effective. The issue has been that it hasn't reached enough schools, so I'm pleased to say that the new advisers have already been recruited and will launch the extended service on January 30. I encourage staff to find out more about these transformative services by visiting the Education Support website. I'll now take questions from journalists and all questions and answers will be broadcast on the Welsh Government Twitter account. We'll start with Camlyn Davies from BBC Wales. Diolch, bod yda. If you could answer these questions in both languages, please. You mentioned that you hope to continue to make progress with unions at the start of your address there, but given the ongoing deadlock between the Welsh Government and nursing unions at the moment and the ACN saying that they're not going to discuss the proposal of a one-off payment any further, why should we expect your negotiations with the teaching unions to be any more successful, and do you think that strikes can be avoided? I'm not going to speculate on the future direction of those discussions, Camlyn, for reasons which I know you will understand. All I will say is that I'm absolutely committed to working with our social partners in that respectful way that we have here in Wales to seek a resolution to this. We met last week, I was able to put a proposal on the table then. There are many, many aspects of that to discuss further with unions and local education authorities. We'll be meeting again this week to take forward those discussions, and I've said elsewhere and I'm very happy to repeat today that I'm happy to meet as many times as it takes to get a resolution to the dispute. Dwi ddim yn mynd i ddweud mwy am fanylio'n y trafodaethau am brysau mewn gwbod byddwch chi'n deall, mae'r hyn i'n digwydd yng Ngheidestin, y berthynas partneriaeth cymrythasol sydd gyda ni yma yng Nghymru. Nid wedi cwrs o rythnos dweithau i gychwyn ar y trafodaethau hynny, roedd yn gyfle i fi allu dod i cynnig o flan ym partneriaid ni. Mae'r gyfodaeth wedi dechrau, rydyn ni'n cwrw dda eto o'r hyffnosech hon. Be ddweud i dweud mewn maen nhw'n edrych ac rwy'n hapus iawn i ddweud e'i hefyd i eto. Rhyw bwg iddyn ni'n rwy'n mynd fel Llywodraeth, wrth gwrs, i weithio gyda'n partneriaid i ddod o hyd i dda trysiad i'r anghydd fod hwn, ac rwy'n barod i gwrs ffant bynnag o weithiau mae'n cymryd yr mwy'n ddod o hyd i hynny. Diolch. A поним hynny? Ac mae o'r melodd iawn, sydd wedi'u'n mynd i ddechrau sex, rydyn ni'n dod â'r edrych y gwblwaith i ddechrau, a byddai'n gwneud? A rydyn ni'n ddod i ddim yn gwneud y dyfodol ar y dyfodol sydd yn Funygros Ffwrdd a Moeddyt, yng Nghymru i ddwyng Grifyddau Tegeden yn ddiddordeb llyfrnolol ar gweithio yw soeddiaeth, a'r dystod y Cymru wedi'i adshifydd y dyfodol i'r adreoddiadau ar y dyfodol i'r adreoddiadau. Rydyn ni'n edrych chi'n gofio'r bydddiadau, rwy'n mynd i gael y dyfodol i'r dyfodol yn y dyfodol am y dyfodol, a rydych chi'n rhaid i gael amser ac yn y cwmddiadau i'r cyfnod yma oherwydd ei fod y blaen o'r adrwyddon, Our clear commitment as a government is that women and girls have the right to be safe in all aspects of their lives and we are committed to tackling abuse in the workplace and challenging damaging behaviour and attitudes head on so that that right to which all women and girls have is a reality. Mae ffyn ffaith yn allanolodraeth ddombbawd yn y derbyn i dog dros chweraion a chelfa ddyde, a isioes yn trafod gyda'r WIU y camau mae'r ari ddyn nhw'n gymryd yn union er mwyn mewn i'r afael gyda'r hyn glawsoni yn yr hagelau'n naethiwr. Roedd yr hyn glawsoni yn syndod i ni gyd ac yn taroni o'i glawedau'n gredi. Mae'n cymryd lot i bobl dda'r allan a sôn am eu profiadau o unrhyw fath o fwyllio neu awrwn addi fel ni wedi clawed. Yn hynny'n rwy'n mynd i adnif y Llywodraeth, yw bod gan unrhyw merch neu fenyw hawl i fiw bawed sydd yn ddiogel ym mhob agwedd, ry'n ni wedi ymrhyw i mwy sicrhau bod ni'n techlo hyn yn y gwaith li, lle ben ag yma hynny'n digwydd a sicrhau nadio'r math yna o fydd y Llyfrid a ymddygiad yn niweudio mynd i fod y merched. Next we have Emma Seatham from TES. Hi there, thank you. I just wondered you mentioned there that there was a proposal on the table in terms of arriving a deal with teachers. Can you tell us just a little bit more about what changes the Government's been able to make? Mae'n dwi'n ddim yn agos y gweithio, Emma, fel y dywed yw'n ddigydd eich gweithio, clannau cyfan yn y farn hwyl ddechrau,ME-Lion ac y gwirionedd Lleodraethol Lleodraethau â'r cyfnodd yw'n gwlei, ac rhai dwynedd, efallai'r propozydd, eich ddigydd ychydigatel yn enw i'r 5% echynllunio ar gyfer salari, ond y gwirionedd Lleodraethau o'r pethau sy'n cael eu nodi'n gweithio ei gwasanaeth ymwylo. Mae'n gweithio'n proses o'r disgystiad i'w ddweud yng nghymru o'r cwrs o'r gwrs honno yw, oedd yn oed yn hyn o'r gwrs. Fy hwnnw, yr oedd wedi'u cymdeithasol fyddwch ei wneud o'r cymdeithasol i'r cyfrifiadau bywydol, ond mae'n gweithio'r wneud o'r cyfrifiadau ar y cyfrifiadau a'r ddweud. Mae'n gweithio'r ddweud o'r disgystiwn ymwelch Unions. We've together committed to looking at those again and seeing what more we can do in relation to questions to do with workload as well as the question of pay as I just set out. Can I just ask how much that one-off payment is that the government is looking at and also can I just follow up on what your statements to do with and just in terms of the well-being programme you said that one of the issues with it had been reach that people were satisfied but it wasn't reaching very many schools so could you just give us a sense of the number of schools that it reached so far in terms of primaries and secondaries and then how you hope that that's going to improve with this extra investment. Thanks. Yes Sydney, well I'm not going to go into the detail of the of the payment which we've discussed that's a matter for the negotiations which we'll be taking forward with our with our trade union partners and with local education authorities yes I mean in relation to the school well-being service you know when you speak to teachers who've had the experience of it what they've been able to say is that it's been it's been very positive it provides a bespoke service which works with the school on approaches which reflect the particular needs of their workforce and so I think that's in a sense why it's been welcome because it's it's particular to the school that they're working with the additional funding that we're providing will effectively double the capacity of the service I still think there'll be many schools who aren't be able to have access to it in practical terms but we are increasing the resource and I would expect to see significantly expanded service reaching many many more schools and I think that will be a that will be a very good thing. Are there actually sorry I know that I've only like two questions but are there actually firm figures on that you know like in terms of how many schools were reached and how many you want to reach in the future? I'll want to see a significant increase Emma to those numbers of schools that have been reached obviously in a sense it's up to school to decide to participate in the service itself so it's driven partly not just by the capacity in the service but the but the school reaching out if you like I mean one of the reasons I was bringing that to the press conference today is that I really want to make sure that all schools are aware of the service and aware of where they can find the support which is available so just to repeat that I would hope that heads and teachers will look at the education support website for further details of how they can benefit from the service. Next we have Ryan O'Neill from Wales online. Thank you minister. Does the Welsh Government have any advice on whether they'll be encouraging arrangements to be put in place for for example remote learning on strike days for example for any schools that do have to close if the dispute isn't resolved just in terms of how possible that might be if it means you know other teachers taking on on work of striking staff? Yes so Ryan that's a really very important question so where we are at the moment is that at the end of last week the unions have communicated to schools and numbers of members they have in each individual school so that heads have that information. The law does not require information to be provided about the identity of individual members so heads will not know which particular members of staff are going to be taking strike action so with that information heads are now looking at the options which they have for providing for making provision on those days. Obviously without understanding in detail the individual teachers who will not be taking action there's obviously limitation on what heads are able to do by way of planning and in that context I expect that heads will be if you like erring on the side of caution which is what you would expect them to do in that particular context. I know they will be looking at issues in relation to you know vulnerable children young people sitting exams and doing whatever they can within the constraints that they face to address that. Obviously online provision is one of the options and I do expect to see that happening next week. But as you will also know and I think you are implying in your question obviously there are limitations on what other non-striking teachers can be asked to do by way of cover for those teachers who are on strike so that will be a set of practical limitations. Schools are already now communicating with parents to tell them what the situation will be next week. I expect that will continue today and tomorrow and perhaps into Thursday you know everybody wants to make sure as much notice as possible is given but one of the challenges for the reasons I've just given is the uncertainty at the moment. It may be the case after the first of February if strikes continue that there is a clearer picture in relation to subsequent to any subsequent days of action and that may provide the opportunity for doing things slightly differently but we don't know that at this point in time. Thank you and do you have any message or advice for parents who are obviously seeing how things are going at the moment who those who work in the key industries like health and example who might struggle to stay off work on strike days if they do go ahead? Do you do you have any kind of message or advice for those individuals? Well it is a worry where parents or carers will need to take time off from work and may as a consequence lose paid themselves in this difficult time. Obviously we don't want to see schools shutting, we want to make sure children are in school as I've just said there are a set of practical limitations which heads are grappling with at the moment for obvious reasons. During the COVID time we were able to make particular provision but actually that isn't available in the same way in this context for for two main reasons. Firstly there was particular legislation in place which allowed specific arrangements to happen that no longer applies because that has been repealed across the UK and secondly because it isn't clear to heads which individual teachers will be available then that again limits to some extent their ability to make the sorts of arrangements that you're referring to but it may be the case it's not clear yet but it may be the case if there's further action after the first of February that there'll be some more certainty about what that can look like in schools. From a from a parents point of view I know that heads everywhere will be looking to do whatever they can to minimise the impact but as I say there are practical practical limitations. Finally, Sean Jenkins from ITV Wales. Diolch Winnie Dogg. I appreciate that you've already answered a question on this subject but my question concerns the recent allegations levelled out the Welsh rugby union of sexism and discrimination within the organisation. We've been speaking to Welsh rugby fans who are calling for Welsh Government intervention and inquiry into the culture at the Welsh rugby union so my question is will there be Welsh Government intervention with the likelihood of that and don't the allegations and the gravity warrant of Welsh Government inquiry? Look Sean what needs to happen now is the WRU needs to act immediately. My colleague Don Bowden the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport is discussing with the WRU the immediate actions it needs to take to address the allegations which we've seen in the investigation. The allegations and the details of the testimonies we heard were striking and devastating and clearly it takes courage to come forward after experiencing any form of harassment or bullying or abuse. Our commitment as a Government is that all women and girls are entitled to live lives which are safe in all respects and as a Government we are committed to tackling abuse in the workplace and challenging damaging behaviour and attitudes which can impact on women and girls in the way that we heard in the television programme last night that my colleague Don Bowden is having discussions as we speak with the WRU.