{"id":503373,"date":"2026-03-30T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:00:09","slug":"welsh-labour-launch-manifesto-for-senedd-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503373\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Labour launch manifesto for Senedd election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Little detail on protecting universities and collegespublished at 11:01 BST<\/p>\n

11:01 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Bethan Lewis
BBC Wales Family & Education Correspondent<\/p>\n

Many in education may well welcome the fact there aren\u2019t any big eye-catching announcements on schools in this manifesto. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because recent reforms to the curriculum and the additional learning needs system have brought huge pressures which are still working their way through the system. <\/p>\n

Welsh Labour are promising a \u201crelentless focus\u201d on literacy and numeracy, but their critics would say that major concerns about the basics in Welsh education are an indictment of their record. <\/p>\n

There is a pledge, however, to extend free school meals in secondary schools \u201cat least to all households receiving Universal Credit\u201d. <\/p>\n

On higher education, there’s a promise to \u201cprotect the long-term futures\u201d of universities and colleges but with little detail. <\/p>\n

And prospective students and their families will also be keen for more information about how a Wales-only repayment plan for student loans would work at a time when student finance is high on the agenda. <\/p>\n

Childcare is an area where all parties are promising to act and, in this Senedd term, Labour have focused on extending free childcare to all two-year-olds. <\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t completed that roll out, but now say they would phase it in for children from nine months if they got back in government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little detail on protecting universities and collegespublished at 11:01 BST 11:01 BST Bethan LewisBBC Wales Family & Education…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-503373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}