This document sets out the agreement between the Labour and Plaid Cymru groups in the National Assembly for Wales on which the coalition is based. The document outlines a four-year programme of government and contains a number of policy’s effecting children.  Some of the policy developments effecting children are:

• Providing a minimum of one family nurse per secondary school
• A priority on providing for mental health, including child and adolescent mental health services

• Legislation on vulnerable children, looked-after children and child poverty
• A review of the Carers Strategy and legislation on the rights of carers
• A plan to confront homelessness over a decade

• Legislation on improved school transport and investment in safe routes to school

• Establishing a right to education and accredited training until the age of 18, and a broader based baccalaureate
• A Welsh-medium Education Strategy and a requirement for LEAs to assess the demand for Welsh medium education.   Establishment of a Welsh-medium Higher Education Network
• Reform of education funding
• Reductions in class sizes
• The development of community schools
• Investment in school buildings
• More resources for physical education, and development of opportunities for schools and colleges to work with local sports clubs
• A pilot scheme for laptops for children
• Legislation on Additional Learning Needs
• An enquiry into disengagement from learning among children and young people. 
• An Assessment of the impact on secondary school funding of developments in the 14 to 19 curriculum
• Review the way in which educational attainment is measured
• A national structure of classroom assistants
• Pilot schemes for Saturday and summer schools in sport, music and the arts.
• Investigating ways in which volunteers by young people can be better recognised an rewarded
• An Assessment of the impact of in-migration on educational provision

• Extending free, full-time, high-quality childcare for two year olds in the areas of the greatest need

• Work to make a success of the new Single Equality Body in Wales.
• Implementation of the All-Wales Strategy on Gypsies and Travellers
• Refine and Implement the Refugee Inclusion Strategy including the recommendations on the interests of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children

• The establishment of units in each local authority encouraging positive citizenship, and addressing anti-social behaviour
• The development and implementation of an All-Wales Alcohol Reduction Strategy
• Taking forward the report into substance misuse counselling services produced in early 2007, and consideration of adopting pilot programmes on substance misuse currently underway in England.
• Reviewing the effectiveness of harm-reduction education programmes in schools.

• Develop Communities First into its Communities Next phase

• Support the aim to half child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020
• Implement an extra Children’s Bond for all children entering school
• Establish a duty on public agencies to make and demonstrate their contribution to ending child poverty
• Establishment of an "expert group" to address the policy requirements necessary to meet the targets set in "Eradicating Child Poverty in Wales – Measuring Success"
• Evaluate the outcomes of existing anti-poverty programme in Wales
• Adopt the Wales Spatial Plan as an integrating tool for the Child Poverty policy area
• Establish credit unions in all parts of Wales and ensure access to a credit union for every secondary school in Wales by 2001.
• Further develop the ability of Welsh credit unions to take deposits of Child Trust Fund accounts

• Prioritising preventative intervention and non-custodial solutions for youth offending
• Considering effective models of cross-cutting practice between the youth justice system and education, housing and mental health services
• Consider evidence for the devolution of the criminal justice system

• Free entry for children into Assembly funded heritage sites
• Extend the free-swimming initiative so that all children have the opportunity to use a sports facility or swimming pool free or charge at the weekends.

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