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Members will be aware that following Estyn’s inspection of Blaenau Gwent’s local authority education services for children and young people in May 2011, the inspection team judged that the authority’s education services and capacity to improve were both unsatisfactory. As a result, the authority was placed in special measures.


Unfortunately, when Estyn inspected the authority’s education service again in January 2013, the judgements were the same and the authority remained in special measures. Estyn provided the authority with 7 recommendations to address.


I have put in place a range of interventions over time, such as Commissioners and most latterly, a Ministerial recovery board, and vested the authority’s education functions with them to provide support and challenge to the authority and to assist it in addressing its shortcomings.


Estyn has been monitoring the authority’s progress and undertook visits in July and November 2014\.  Estyn’s last monitoring visit of the authority’s education services was undertaken last month and I wish to inform you of the outcome of that visit.


I am pleased to announce that following that visit, Estyn has judged that the authority has made sufficient progress in relation to the recommendations following the inspection of January 2013\.  As a result, the Inspectorate considers that the authority no longer requires special measures and is removing it from further follow\-up activity.


Estyn’s report of the outcome of the monitoring visit will be published on its website today.


I have met with Blaenau Gwent’s leader and chief executive to offer my congratulations on the progress they have made against the Estyn recommendations and the judgement given by inspectors.


While this judgment importantly reflects the progress made by the authority in addressing the recommendations made by Estyn it also critically reflects that outcomes for young people in Blaenau Gwent are improving.  We must continue to focus on these outcomes and ensure that standards in education in the authority continue to improve.


Whilst today’s announcement by Estyn is pleasing, I have urged the leadership team of the authority not to become complacent; and to ensure that improvement continues and is sustainable.  I have urged them to consider the best mechanism which would enable this to happen.


Through my discussions with the authority I am pleased to note that this issue is firmly within the leadership team’s minds and that they are actively considering how the progress made can be continued. My officials, in collaboration with the authority, are giving some thought to the most appropriate support structures that would allow the authority to achieve this.


This statement is being issued during recess in order to keep Members informed.  Should Members wish me to make a further statement or to answer questions on this when the Assembly returns I would be happy to do so.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 







Translation:


 
   Ar ôl i Estyn arolygu gwasanaethau addysg awdurdod lleol Blaenau Gwent ar gyfer plant a phobl ifanc ym Mai 2011, bydd yr Aelodau yn ymwybodol bod y tîm arolygu wedi dyfarnu bod gwasanaethau addysg yr awdurdod a’u capasiti i wella yn anfoddhaol. Rhoddwyd yr awdurdod, felly, o dan fesurau arbennig. 

Yn anffodus, pan aeth Estyn ati i arolygu gwasanaeth addysg yr awdurdod unwaith eto ym mis Ionawr 2013, yr un oedd y casgliadau a pharhaodd yr awdurdod o dan fesurau arbennig. Rhoddodd Estyn 7 argymhelliad i’r awdurdod. 

Rwyf wedi sefydlu ymyriadau amrywiol dros amser, megis Comisiynwyr ac, yn fwyaf diweddar, bwrdd adfer Gweinidogol, ac rwyf wedi rhoi swyddogaethau addysg yr awdurdod i’r bwrdd er mwyn cynnig cymorth a her i’r awdurdod a’i helpu i ddelio â’i ddiffygion.

Mae Estyn wedi bod yn monitro cynnydd yr awdurdod ac ymwelodd â’r awdurdod ym mis Gorffennaf a mis Tachwedd 2014\. Fis diwethaf cynhaliodd Estyn ei ymweliad monitro diweddaraf â gwasanaethau addysg yr awdurdod, ac rwyf am roi gwybod ichi beth oedd canlyniad yr ymweliad hwnnw. 

Rwy’n falch o gael cyhoeddi, yn dilyn yr ymweliad hwnnw, fod Estyn wedi dyfarnu bod yr awdurdod wedi gwneud cynnydd digonol o ran yr argymhellion a wnaed yn sgil arolygiad Ionawr 2013\. O ganlyniad, mae’r Arolygiaeth o’r farn nad oes angen i’r awdurdod fod o dan fesurau arbennig bellach, ac ni fydd angen mwy o wiriadau. 

Caiff adroddiad Estyn ar ganlyniad yr ymweliad monitro ei gyhoeddi ar ei wefan heddiw. 

Rwyf wedi cwrdd ag arweinydd a phrif weithredwr Blaenau Gwent i’w longyfarch ar y cynnydd a wnaed yn erbyn argymhellion Estyn a dyfarniad yr arolygwyr. 

Er bod y dyfarniad hwn yn adlewyrchu’r cynnydd a wnaed gan yr awdurdod o ran argymhellion Estyn, sy’n bwysig ynddo’i hun, mae hefyd yn adlewyrchu’r ffaith bod yr argoelion ar gyfer pobl ifanc Blaenau Gwent yn gwella. Mae’n rhaid inni barhau i ganolbwyntio ar y canlyniadau hyn a sicrhau bod safonau addysg yr awdurdod yn parhau i wella.

Er ein bod wrth ein bodd â chyhoeddiad Estyn heddiw, rwyf wedi pwyso ar dîm arweinwyr yr awdurdod i beidio â llaesu dwylo, a sicrhau bod y gwelliant yn parhau ac yn gynaliadwy. Rwyf wedi pwyso arnynt i ystyried beth yw’r ffordd orau o sicrhau bod hyn yn digwydd. 

Yn sgil fy nhrafodaethau gyda’r awdurdod, dwi’n falch o allu nodi bod y mater hwn yn glir ym meddyliau’r tîm arweinwyr a’u bod wrthi’n ystyried sut y gellir parhau â’r cynnydd a wnaed. Mae fy swyddogion, mewn cydweithrediad â’r awdurdod, yn rhoi ystyriaeth i’r strwythurau cymorth mwyaf priodol a fyddai’n caniatáu i’r awdurdod gyflawni hyn.  

Caiff y datganiad hwn ei gyhoeddi yn ystod y toriad er mwyn rhoi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i’r Aelodau. Os bydd yr Aelodau eisiau i mi wneud datganiad pellach neu ateb cwestiynau ynglŷn â hyn pan fydd y Cynulliad yn ailymgynnull, byddwn yn hapus i wneud hynny.