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In October 2019, the Welsh Government issued a consultation on Ensuring Access to the Full Curriculum for all pupils. We sought views on the implications of removing the parental option to prevent children studying Religious Education (RE) and Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE).

After careful consideration of the responses, I can confirm that there will not be a right to withdraw from RE and RSE as part of the new curriculum.  This change will require careful and sensitive implementation.

Our responsibility as a government is to ensure that young people, through public education, have access to learning that supports them to understand and discuss their rights and the rights of others. It is essential that all young people are provided with access to information that keeps them safe from harm. Today’s decision ensures that all pupils will learn about issues such as online safety and healthy relationships.

I recognise this is a sensitive matter and the consultation responses reflected strong and deeply held concerns. These went further than the question of right to withdraw itself and extended to the appropriate role of the state in education on these matters and what and how leaners will be taught.   

There is clearly a need for us to work with communities and all interested parties in co\-constructing the learning and teaching for RSE, developing a shared understanding of the issues and the sensitivities. This is vital to enable everyone to have confidence in how this will be implemented – we are clear that our reforms must be introduced sensitively.

The next two and half years is our opportunity to work together to agree the topics to be covered by schools and the detailed guidance to support their classroom practice.  It’s also our opportunity to talk through the issues which worry us and listen to the perspectives of others.  I will be putting in place structures to support this exchange of perspectives and to enable clear guidance, resources and professional learning to be made available for schools.   

I am pleased to announce a Faith/BAME Community Involvement Group will be established and will meet for the first time in February. The role of the group is to engage in the development of RSE guidance and develop a shared understanding of the new curriculum. The group will also discuss the concerns raised by faith and community groups during the consultation.

We will continue to work with communities across Wales, including parents, carers and schools to balance the rights of parents to care for and guide their children into adulthood, with the work of schools in providing a broad and balanced education that serves the public good.  We will build on the community engagement which accompanied the consultation with continued investment in enabling us to hear directly from communities about the issues which concern them in relation to RSE and finding ways to address them.

I want to take the opportunity to test the approach for RSE before it is included in the new curriculum.  This will provide valuable intelligence to inform the refinement of our approach and will enable learners, parents and carers and communities to see it working in practice and to provide feedback. Further details on this approach will be announced in due course.







Translation:


 
Ym mis Hydref 2019, cyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru ymgynghoriad ar Sicrhau Mynediad i'r Cwricwlwm Llawn i bob disgybl. Roeddem wedi ceisio barn pobl ar oblygiadau dileu hawl rhieni i atal eu plant rhag astudio Addysg Grefyddol ac Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb. 


Ar ôl ystyried yr ymatebion yn ofalus, gallaf gadarnhau na fydd hawl i dynnu’n ôl o Addysg Grefyddol ac Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb fel rhan o'r cwricwlwm newydd. Bydd y newid hwn yn galw am weithredu gofalus a sensitif.


Ein cyfrifoldeb ni fel llywodraeth yw sicrhau bod pobl ifanc, drwy addysg gyhoeddus, yn cael mynediad i ddysgu sy'n eu cefnogi i drafod a deall eu hawliau a hawliau pobl eraill. Mae'n hanfodol bod pob person ifanc yn cael mynediad i wybodaeth sy'n eu cadw’n ddiogel rhag niwed. Mae'r penderfyniad hwn heddiw yn sicrhau y bydd pob disgybl yn dysgu am faterion megis diogelwch ar\-lein a chydberthnasau iach.


Rwy'n cydnabod bod hwn yn fater sensitif a bod yr ymatebion i'r ymgynghoriad yn adlewyrchu pryderon dilys. Aeth yr ymatebion hyn y tu hwnt i ystyried yr hawl i dynnu disgyblion allan yn unig, gan ymdrin hefyd â rôl briodol y wladwriaeth mewn addysg ar y materion hyn, a sut y caiff dysgwyr eu haddysgu.   


Mae'n amlwg bod angen inni gydweithio â chymunedau a phob parti sydd â buddiant wrth gyd\-adeiladu’r dysgu ac addysgu ym maes Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb, gan ddatblygu dealltwriaeth gyffredin o'r problemau a'r materion sensitif. Mae hyn yn hanfodol i alluogi pawb i ymddiried yn sut y caiff hyn ei weithredu \- mae'n amlwg bod rhaid cyflwyno ein diwygiadau mewn modd sensitif.


Mae'r ddwy flynedd a hanner nesaf yn gyfle inni gydweithio i gytuno ar y testunau y mae ysgolion yn ymdrin â hwy, a'r canllawiau manwl i gefnogi eu harfer yn yr ystafell ddosbarth. Mae hefyd yn gyfle inni drafod y materion sy'n peri gofid inni a gwrando ar safbwyntiau pobl eraill. Byddaf yn rhoi strwythurau ar waith i gefnogi'r broses hon o gyfnewid safbwyntiau a sicrhau bod canllawiau clir, adnoddau a dysgu proffesiynol ar gael i ysgolion.   


Mae'n bleser gen i gyhoeddi y caiff Grŵp Ffydd/Cynnwys Cymunedau pobl dduon ac Asiaidd a lleiafrifoedd ethnig ei sefydlu, a bydd y grŵp hwn yn cwrdd am y tro cyntaf ym mis Chwefror. Rôl y grŵp yw datblygu canllawiau Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb a datblygu dealltwriaeth gyffredin o'r cwricwlwm newydd. Bydd y grŵp hefyd yn trafod y pryderon a godwyd gan y grwpiau ffydd a'r grwpiau cymunedol yn ystod yr ymgynghoriad.


Byddwn yn parhau i gydweithio â chymunedau ledled Cymru, gan gynnwys rhieni, gofalwyr ac ysgolion i daro cydbwysedd priodol rhwng hawliau rhieni i ofalu am eu plant a'u harwain i fod yn oedolion gydag ysgolion yn darparu addysg eang a chytbwys sy'n cyfrannu at les y cyhoedd.  Byddwn yn datblygu ar sail y gwaith ymgysylltu â'r gymuned a wnaed fel rhan o'r ymgynghoriad gan barhau’r buddsoddiad fydd yn ein galluogi i glywed yn uniongyrchol gan gymunedau am y materion sy'n peri pryder iddynt o ran Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb a dod o hyd i ffyrdd o fynd i'r afael â'r pryderon hynny.


Hoffwn gymryd y cyfle i brofi'r dull gweithredu newydd o ran Addysg Cydberthynas a Rhywioldeb cyn ei gynnwys yn y cwricwlwm newydd.  Bydd hyn yn galluogi casglu gwybodaeth werthfawr i lywio'r gwaith o fireinio ein dull gweithredu bydd yn galluogi dysgwyr, rhieni, gofalwyr a chymunedau i weld y cwricwlwm newydd ar waith a rhoi adborth arno. Bydd rhagor o wybodaeth am y dull gweithredu hwn yn cael ei chyhoeddi maes o law.