No decision will be made on proposals for a five-week summer holiday before the next Senedd election, the government has confirmed. Opposition parties have called on the plans to be dropped completely.
By Tomos Evans, Wales reporter @TomosGruffydd
The Welsh government has put plans to cut the summer holidays on hold – but the announcement has been criticised by Wales’s former first minister Mark Drakeford.
Under the proposals, the summer holiday would be reduced by one week, with an extra week added for October half term.
But Wales‘s education secretary Lynne Neagle has announced no decision will be made before the next Senedd election in 2026.
That means that any future changes to the school year are unlikely…
