New Welsh Government should stick with shorter school summer holidays plans, expert says

As Wales’ new Education Minister Lynne Neagle starts her brief one of the matters in her inbox will be proposals to change the school year dates and cut short the six week summer holidays. Results of a public consultation on that are due soon but the changes, which include a five or four week summer break, are opposed by all education unions in Wales who wrote a joint letter to her predecessor Jeremy Miles saying so,