Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 24 May 2022.
Llywydd, I agree with Adam Price that the case, as we've heard about it, has been a shocking one, and our thoughts are of course with that young person and his family. No incidents of bullying, whatever their motivation, are acceptable in schools in Wales, and the incident itself is now being investigated by the Gwent Police, with the assistance of the local authority and others, and we must allow that process to be concluded.
As well as thinking about that young person and their circumstances, I think it is right that we think of that wider school community as well. There are young people sitting examinations at the Abertillery Learning Community today; there will be other young people wanting to return to that set of arrangements for their education. It is a learning community, Llywydd, where Show Racism the Red Card has been very recently and very actively engaged in making sure that the training, the awareness, the resources and so on—I agree with everything that the Member said about that—were known about and that they were pursued in the Abertillery Learning Community.
Our anti-racist Wales action plan will be published next month. It will include a significant section dealing with anti-racist action in the education context. I myself am more interested in making sure that we can take those actions—actions that we have agreed, with so many voices with lived experience who've helped us to create that plan—than I am in yet another inquiry.