English: Well, it is clear to me, and it is clear to Estyn, that this is indeed an issue that they should be reporting on - how a school ensures that healthy food and drink are available to the children in school. And, as I said, I'm very disappointed that any school would restrict access to free drinking water for children. It is quite clear in the Measure and, as I said, on 13 March of this year, via the Dysg newsletter, we reminded all LEAs and all schools of their legal responsibilities in this regard. Now, revising the regulations is one action to ensure a positive impact on children's well-being, attainment and behaviour. Recent reports, such as 'A Charter for Change' by the Children's Commissioner for Wales, and the recently published children's future food inquiry, have flagged issues ranging from holiday hunger, which Mike spoke about, to school meal debt, which I know has been a concern for the Member Joyce Watson, and non-take-up by those who are entitled to a free school meal. These are factors around poverty that have a significant impact on our children's happiness and their well-being. Members will be aware that we have taken a number of actions to remove worries associated with some of these issues, whether that's thinking about how children's well-being can be prioritised or helping remove worries associated with some of the costs of the school day. Schools also play a vital role in promoting positive behaviours. The new school curriculum will support learners to develop an understanding of the contributory factors involved in achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, particularly the impact of food and nutrition on health and well-being, and the skills to adopt healthy behaviours. Exploring these subject areas within the curriculum, facilitating new experiences and developing new skills in the process, will contribute to the whole-school approach and to learners' lifelong attitudes, I hope, to food and food consumption. There are also a number of programmes within Welsh schools that could be strengthened and aligned to provide additional support for this agenda. The Welsh network of healthy school schemes, a national programme operating within the majority of Welsh schools, seeks holistically to promote health, both physical and mental, and programmes like eco-schools have the potential to inspire children to value the environment, understand the benefits of being outside, encourages food growing within the school campus, as well as wider issues around plastic and food security and the impact of food production on our sustainability agenda. Lest we forget, Wales pioneered the way in a number of areas that have benefited our children. We led the way in the UK with the introduction of our free breakfast in primary initiative in 2004. And I admit I was a sceptic at the time, but the evidence and the research on the impact of that policy is clear: it makes a real difference to the educational attainment of those children. In its fifteenth year, the scheme is integral to our wider work to improve food and nutrition in maintained schools. Since 2017, we have funded the school holiday enrichment programme, and since then we have provided £1 million support to SHEP, making available nearly 4,000 places in SHEP schemes across Wales. And, in this financial year, we are making available up to £900,000 to further roll out SHEP, enabling local authorities and partners to support even more families this summer. The well-being of our children, Deputy Presiding Officer, in conclusion, must be at the heart of our inclusive education system, and promoting and encouraging good eating habits while in school and, hopefully, taking those habits home is a shared responsibility between schools and families. Encouraging children to develop good eating habits will stay with them throughout their lives and help them develop into the happy, confident and healthy individuals all of us would want to see.
Welsh: Wel, mae'n amlwg i mi, ac mae'n amlwg i Estyn, fod hwn yn fater y dylent fod yn adrodd arno - sut y mae ysgol yn sicrhau bod bwyd a diod iach ar gael i'r plant yn yr ysgol. Ac fel y dywedais, rwy'n siomedig iawn o glywed y byddai unrhyw ysgol yn cyfyngu ar fynediad plant at ddŵr yfed am ddim. Mae'n eithaf clir yn y Mesur ac fel y dywedais, ar 13 Mawrth eleni, drwy gylchlythyr Dysg, gwnaethom atgoffa pob AALl a phob ysgol o'u cyfrifoldebau cyfreithiol i'r perwyl hwn. Nawr, mae diwygio'r rheoliadau yn un cam gweithredu i sicrhau effaith gadarnhaol ar les, cyrhaeddiad ac ymddygiad plant. Mae adroddiadau diweddar, megis 'Siarter ar gyfer Newid' gan Gomisiynydd Plant Cymru, a'r ymchwiliad a gyhoeddwyd yn ddiweddar ar fwyd i blant yn y dyfodol, wedi tynnu sylw at faterion yn amrywio o newyn gwyliau, y soniodd Mike amdano, i ddyled prydau ysgol, y gwn ei fod wedi bod yn bryder i'r Aelod, Joyce Watson, a'r ffaith nad yw pawb sydd â hawl i gael prydau ysgol am ddim yn manteisio ar hynny. Mae'r rhain yn ffactorau sy'n ymwneud â thlodi ac sy'n effeithio'n sylweddol ar hapusrwydd a lles ein plant. Bydd yr Aelodau'n ymwybodol ein bod wedi rhoi nifer o gamau ar waith i gael gwared ar bryderon sy'n gysylltiedig â rhai o'r materion hyn, boed yn feddwl sut y gellir blaenoriaethu lles plant neu helpu i ddileu pryderon sy'n gysylltiedig â rhai o gostau'r diwrnod ysgol. Mae ysgolion hefyd yn chwarae rhan hanfodol yn hybu patrymau ymddygiad cadarnhaol. Bydd y cwricwlwm ysgol newydd yn cynorthwyo dysgwyr i ddatblygu dealltwriaeth o'r ffactorau cyfrannol sy'n gysylltiedig â chyrraedd a chynnal pwysau corff iach, yn enwedig effaith bwyd a maeth ar iechyd a lles, a'r sgiliau i fabwysiadu ymddygiad iach. Gobeithio y bydd archwilio'r meysydd hyn o fewn y cwricwlwm, gan hwyluso profiadau newydd a datblygu sgiliau newydd yn y broses, yn cyfrannu at y dull ysgol gyfan ac at agweddau gydol oes dysgwyr at fwyd a bwyta. Mae yna nifer o raglenni o fewn ysgolion Cymru y gellid eu cryfhau a'u halinio i ddarparu cymorth ychwanegol ar gyfer yr agenda hon. Mae rhwydwaith Cymru o gynlluniau ysgol iach, rhaglen genedlaethol sy'n gweithredu yn y mwyafrif o ysgolion Cymru, yn ceisio hybu iechyd yn gyfannol, yn gorfforol ac yn feddyliol, ac mae gan raglenni fel eco-ysgolion botensial i ysbrydoli plant i werthfawrogi'r amgylchedd, deall manteision bod yn yr awyr agored, annog tyfu bwyd ar gampws yr ysgol, yn ogystal â materion ehangach yn ymwneud â phlastig a diogelwch bwyd ac effaith cynhyrchu bwyd ar ein hagenda cynaliadwyedd. Rhag i ni anghofio, mae Cymru wedi arloesi mewn nifer o feysydd sydd wedi bod o fudd i'n plant. Fe wnaethom arwain y ffordd yn y DU drwy gyflwyno ein cynllun brecwast am ddim mewn ysgolion cynradd yn 2004. Ac rwy'n cyfaddef fy mod yn sgeptig ar y pryd, ond mae'r dystiolaeth a'r ymchwil ar effaith y polisi hwnnw'n glir: mae'n gwneud gwahaniaeth go iawn i gyrhaeddiad addysgol y plant hynny. Bymtheg mlynedd ers ei gychwyn, mae'r cynllun yn rhan annatod o'n gwaith ehangach i wella bwyd a maeth mewn ysgolion a gynhelir. Ers 2017, rydym wedi ariannu rhaglen gwella gwyliau'r haf, ac ers hynny rydym wedi darparu £1 filiwn o gymorth i'r rhaglen, gan sicrhau bron i 4,000 o leoedd mewn cynlluniau gwella gwyliau'r haf ledled Cymru. Ac yn y flwyddyn ariannol hon, rydym yn darparu hyd at £900,000 i ymestyn y rhaglen ymhellach, gan alluogi awdurdodau lleol a phartneriaid i gynorthwyo mwy fyth o deuluoedd yr haf hwn. Ddirprwy Lywydd, i gloi, rhaid i lesiant ein plant fod yn ganolog i'n system addysg gynhwysol, a hyrwyddo ac annog arferion bwyta da tra yn yr ysgol a'r gobaith yw y bydd mynd â'r arferion hynny adref yn gyfrifoldeb a rennir rhwng ysgolion a theuluoedd. Bydd annog plant i ddatblygu arferion bwyta da yn aros gyda hwy drwy gydol eu hoes ac yn eu helpu i ddatblygu'n unigolion hapus, hyderus ac iach fel y byddai pob un ohonom am ei weld.