English: Jenny Rathbone made an important series of points in relation to the impact on the non-maintained sector. The report talks about the financial fragility of a number of settings. She will know that we committed £8 million between March 2020 and 2021 through the Recruit, Recover and Raise Standards programme, and we're working closely with stakeholders, including with Estyn, to understand where support could be best directed in future, including for speech and language services, which she highlighted in her question. In this coming financial year, we're increasing funding to local authorities so that they can better support settings delivering early education to reflect the important points that she made in her contribution. As we look to the future, Llywydd, I'd like to touch briefly on the role of Estyn itself. The annual report we've discussed today covered an academic year when core inspections were almost completely suspended because of the pandemic. Instead, Estyn inspectors engaged with schools and education and training providers to discuss a range of issues, including the impact of the pandemic, and, importantly, to offer support. As Jayne Bryant said in her contribution, Estyn continue to maintain close contact with schools and settings in follow-up. Formal monitoring of schools requiring special measures or significant improvement resumed in the 2021 summer term, and I'm pleased to say that, to date, a good proportion of these schools have made sufficient progress and been removed from the category. Our school leaders and the wider educational workforce have faced and continue to face significant pressures. That's why it was important that I agreed with the previous chief inspector last summer to continue the suspension of Estyn's core inspection programme for a further term, alongside the number of other measures I announced to make space for schools. Estyn subsequently started piloting new inspection arrangements with volunteer schools and pupil referral units in the spring term this year, and during the summer term, they're extending their piloting with a larger sample of schools, which they will select themselves, to test out the new arrangements in a wider variety of settings. They will continue with a return to inspections across other sectors, including for our post-16 settings. From September, Estyn plan to resume a normal inspection programme across all sectors. The objective and independent information provided by inspections will provide us with vital evidence on how schools are implementing curriculum and ALN reforms, to which a number of speakers have made reference, as well as with wider intelligence about the education system. That's why we've increased funding allocations to Estyn to enable the inspectorate to complete the inspection of all schools in the current cycle by July 2024, in spite of the pause in inspections during the pandemic. Finally, you will all know that since the publication of the annual report, a new chief inspector has been appointed, and I look forward to continuing to work with Owen Evans over the coming months and to listen to his views on how inspection and Estyn's wider activities can help support our education system to achieve high standards and aspirations for all.
Welsh: Gwnaeth Jenny Rathbone gyfres bwysig o bwyntiau mewn cysylltiad â'r effaith ar y sector nas cynhelir. Mae'r adroddiad yn sôn am nifer o leoliadau sy'n fregus yn ariannol. Bydd yn gwybod ein bod wedi ymrwymo £8 miliwn rhwng mis Mawrth 2020 a 2021 drwy'r rhaglen Recriwtio, Adfer a Chodi Safonau, ac rydym yn gweithio'n agos gyda rhanddeiliaid, gan gynnwys Estyn, i ddeall i ble y gellid cyfeirio cymorth orau yn y dyfodol, gan gynnwys ar gyfer gwasanaethau iaith a lleferydd, y tynnodd sylw atyn nhw yn ei chwestiwn. Yn y flwyddyn ariannol sydd i ddod, rydym yn cynyddu'r cyllid i awdurdodau lleol fel y gallan nhw gefnogi lleoliadau sy'n darparu addysg gynnar yn well i adlewyrchu'r pwyntiau pwysig a wnaeth yn ei chyfraniad. Wrth i ni edrych tua'r dyfodol, Llywydd, hoffwn sôn yn fyr am swyddogaeth Estyn ei hun. Roedd yr adroddiad blynyddol yr ydym wedi'i drafod heddiw yn cwmpasu blwyddyn academaidd pan ataliwyd arolygiadau craidd bron yn llwyr oherwydd y pandemig. Yn lle hynny, ymgysylltodd arolygwyr Estyn ag ysgolion a darparwyr addysg a hyfforddiant i drafod amrywiaeth o faterion, gan gynnwys effaith y pandemig, ac, yn bwysig, i gynnig cymorth. Fel y dywedodd Jayne Bryant yn ei chyfraniad, mae Estyn yn parhau i gadw mewn cysylltiad agos ag ysgolion a lleoliadau mewn gwaith dilynol. Ailddechreuodd monitro ffurfiol ar ysgolion sydd angen mesurau arbennig neu welliant sylweddol yn nhymor yr haf 2021, ac rwy'n falch o ddweud bod cyfran dda o'r ysgolion hyn, hyd yma, wedi gwneud cynnydd digonol ac wedi eu tynnu o'r categori. Mae arweinwyr ein hysgolion a'r gweithlu addysgol ehangach wedi wynebu pwysau sylweddol ac yn parhau i'w hwynebu. Dyna pam yr oedd yn bwysig i mi gytuno â'r prif arolygydd blaenorol yr haf diwethaf i barhau i atal rhaglen arolygu graidd Estyn am dymor arall, ochr yn ochr â nifer o fesurau eraill a gyhoeddais i wneud lle i ysgolion. Wedi hynny, dechreuodd Estyn dreialu trefniadau arolygu newydd gydag ysgolion gwirfoddol ac unedau cyfeirio disgyblion yn nhymor y gwanwyn eleni, ac yn ystod tymor yr haf, maen nhw'n ymestyn eu cynllun treialu gyda sampl mwy o ysgolion, y byddan nhw'n eu dewis eu hunain, i brofi'r trefniadau newydd mewn amrywiaeth ehangach o leoliadau. Byddan nhw'n parhau i ddychwelyd i arolygiadau ar draws sectorau eraill, gan gynnwys ar gyfer ein lleoliadau ôl-16. O fis Medi ymlaen, mae Estyn yn bwriadu ailddechrau rhaglen arolygu arferol ar draws pob sector. Bydd yr wybodaeth wrthrychol ac annibynnol a ddarperir gan arolygiadau yn rhoi tystiolaeth hanfodol i ni o sut y mae ysgolion yn gweithredu diwygiadau'r cwricwlwm ac ADY, y mae nifer o siaradwyr wedi cyfeirio atyn nhw, yn ogystal â gwybodaeth ehangach am y system addysg. Dyna pam yr ydym wedi cynyddu'r dyraniadau cyllid i Estyn i alluogi'r arolygiaeth i gwblhau'r arolygiad o bob ysgol yn y cylch presennol erbyn mis Gorffennaf 2024, er gwaethaf yr oedi mewn arolygiadau yn ystod y pandemig. Yn olaf, byddwch i gyd yn gwybod bod prif arolygydd newydd wedi'i benodi ers cyhoeddi'r adroddiad blynyddol, ac edrychaf ymlaen at barhau i weithio gydag Owen Evans dros y misoedd nesaf a gwrando ar ei farn ar sut y gall arolygu a gweithgareddau ehangach Estyn helpu i gefnogi ein system addysg i gyflawni safonau a dyheadau uchel i bawb.