English: Can I thank the Chair of the education, young people and children's committee for her response to the report? I, too, am grateful for Professor Diamond's continued expertise in this area. He could have just handed over the report and gone back to doing the very important work that he does, and I'm very grateful to him for coming back to committees to give full explanations, and I understand that he will be at the all-party group on higher education tonight, and I would encourage Members to go along to hear from Professor Diamond. Can I take this opportunity to confirm that it is my intention to legislate to ensure that those children who have experience of the care sector and who have been looked after will have access to the full maintenance grant? This Government is working very, very hard to address the educational inequalities that exist for children who have been in the care system. That's why we've introduced the pupil deprivation grant to support those children's education. We know that they have been considerably under-represented studying at a higher level. We want to make sure that, right the way through the education system, we're putting in specific support to enable those children to reach their full potential, both in school and in going on to study at a higher level. Support that is currently available, for instance, to students with a disability and students with childcare costs will continue under the new system. What I'm also keen to look at is what we can do better to support carers and those who have had caring responsibilities in their lives, and how that may have impacted on their ability to access higher education or to stay in higher education once they were there. The consultation document does ask for some specific ideas about how best we can identify those individuals and how best we can support them going forward. The consultation obviously opens today. I would like responses back by 14 February, Valentine's Day, so I hope that they will all be charming and attractive and will have fallen in love with the proposals that we are outlining here by the Government today.
Welsh: A gaf i ddiolch i Gadeirydd y pwyllgor addysg, pobl ifanc a phlant am ei hymateb i'r adroddiad? Yr wyf i, hefyd, yn ddiolchgar am arbenigedd parhaus yr Athro Diamond yn y maes hwn. Gallai fod wedi trosglwyddo'r adroddiad a dychwelyd at y gwaith pwysig iawn y mae'n ei wneud, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn iddo am ddod yn ôl i bwyllgorau i roi esboniadau llawn, ac rwy'n deall y bydd yn y grŵp trawsbleidiol ar addysg uwch heno, a byddwn yn annog yr Aelodau i fynd draw i glywed gan yr Athro Diamond. A gaf i gymryd y cyfle hwn i gadarnhau ei bod yn fwriad gennyf i ddeddfu i sicrhau y bydd y plant hynny sydd â phrofiad o'r sector gofal ac sydd wedi derbyn gofal yn cael mynediad at y grant cynhaliaeth llawn? Mae'r Llywodraeth hon yn gweithio'n galed iawn, iawn i fynd i'r afael â'r anghydraddoldebau addysgol sy'n bodoli i blant sydd wedi bod yn y system ofal. Dyna pam yr ydym wedi cyflwyno grant amddifadedd disgyblion i gefnogi addysg y plant hynny. Rydym yn gwybod nad ydynt wedi'u cynrychioli'n ddigonol o gwbl wrth astudio ar lefel uwch. Rydym eisiau gwneud yn siŵr, yr holl ffordd drwy'r system addysg, ein bod yn rhoi cefnogaeth benodol i alluogi'r plant hynny i gyrraedd eu llawn botensial, yn yr ysgol ac wrth fynd ymlaen i astudio ar lefel uwch. Bydd cymorth sydd ar gael ar hyn o bryd, er enghraifft, i fyfyrwyr ag anableddau a myfyrwyr â chostau gofal plant yn parhau o dan y system newydd. Yr hyn yr wyf hefyd yn awyddus i'w ystyried yw beth y gallwn ni ei wneud yn well i gefnogi gofalwyr a'r rhai sydd wedi ysgwyddo cyfrifoldebau gofalu yn ystod eu bywydau, a sut y gallai hynny fod wedi effeithio ar eu gallu i gael mynediad at addysg uwch neu i aros mewn addysg uwch ar ôl iddynt gyrraedd yno. Mae'r ddogfen ymgynghori yn gofyn am rai syniadau penodol am y ffordd orau y gallwn adnabod yr unigolion hynny a sut orau y gallwn eu cefnogi wrth symud ymlaen. Mae'r ymgynghoriad yn amlwg yn agor heddiw. Hoffwn gael ymatebion yn ôl erbyn 14 Chwefror, Dydd Sant Ffolant, felly rwy'n gobeithio y bydd pob un ohonynt yn swynol ac yn ddeniadol ac y byddant i gyd wedi syrthio mewn cariad â'r cynigion yr ydym yn eu hamlinellu yma gan y Llywodraeth heddiw.