00:00 Six weeks holiday is synonymous with the summer. It's been that way for decades and parents
00:07 and children know to expect a long break in between school years and that will stay for
00:11 at least the next few years as the Welsh Government shelves plans to change it. They've proposed
00:16 cutting the summer holidays to four weeks down from six in an effort to keep children
00:20 engaged in school without such a long break in between. The plans do not mean less breaks
00:25 for young people though as the two weeks lost in the summer holidays would be added to half
00:29 terms throughout the year. The Welsh Government have said that they will wait until at least
00:33 the next set of elections which take place in 2025 so 2026 would be the earliest that
00:38 we could see it come into fruition. A number of organisations have spoken out against the
00:43 plans with the Director of the Association of School and College Leaders, Cymru, Ethna
00:47 Hughes saying it has been an unwelcome distraction and an enormous waste of time. She said she
00:53 welcomes the decision to push the plans back but hopes it will not come into place at all.
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