Month: October 2025

In the run up to the 2026 Senedd Election, The Politics Project is offering free support to secondary schools, colleges and youth organisations across Wales to run their own youth hustings events through the Host a Hustings Cymru programme.

Designed to engage young people – especially first time voters aged 16-17 this programme helps bring politics to life and provides young people with the unique opportunity to ask candidates the questions they want to know the answers to. 

The programme includes:

• Expert-led training
• Learner resources on elections & Welsh democracy
• Materials to help you plan your hustings 
• Links to local candidates 

There are two ways to get involved:

1. Host a hustings with free training, resources, and tailored support
2. Attend a local hustings hosted by another school or organisation in your constituency

Interested?

Fill out this short Expression of Interest form and we’ll be in touch with next steps.

Prefer a quick chat? Book a time here

Or contact mia@thepoliticsproject.org.uk

Mae’n adroddiad ymchwil newydd yn archwilio aliniad ymarfer gwaith chwarae a gwaith ieuenctid ar draws Cymru. Mae’n tynnu sylw at enghreifftiau o ymarfer wedi ei alinio mewn awdurdodau lleol a sefydliadau trydydd sector, gan bwysleisio buddiannau a heriau’r arddull hwn. Ewch i ddarganfod mwy drwy glicio ar y ddolen yma.

Our new research report explores the alignment of playwork and youth work practices across Wales. It highlights examples of aligned practice within local authorities and third sector organisations, emphasising the benefits and challenges of this approach. Find out more by clicking on this link.

The theme for 2025 is “Rising as Me: Overcoming challenges, transforming, and finding your identity”

Volunteering Wales is a website that connects people that want to volunteer in Wales with charities and other organisations in the Welsh voluntary sector. It’s been designed specifically by and for Welsh organisations and is fully bilingual. It supports organisations from all kinds of sectors that are looking for volunteers, including public/statutory bodies like local authorities, health boards, police forces and more.

Volunteering Wales is free to use and an extremely accessible way to grow a volunteer base or connect people with the voluntary sector. Since its relaunch it has continued to be improved and refined to better help organisations attract new volunteers to their cause. Everyone’s time is precious, especially in the context of the cost of living crisis, so our aim is to make volunteering as simple and accessible as possible so volunteers and organisations can find each other with minimum fuss.

Throughout this pack we have provided materials aimed at informing both volunteers and organisations that work with volunteers about Volunteering Wales.

We know the sector is facing a volunteer recruitment crisis at the moment, so we want to use Volunteering Wales to do what we can to help and make sure as many organisations and potential volunteers are aware of its benefits as possible. Click on the link below for an information pack. https://www.cwvys.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Volunteering-Wales-2025-campaign-pack.docx

Cyflwyniad

Mae Gwirfoddoli Cymru yn wefan sy’n cysylltu pobl sydd am wirfoddoli yng Nghymru ag elusennau a mudiadau eraill yn sector gwirfoddol Cymru. Mae wedi’i gynllunio’n benodol gan, ac ar gyfer, mudiadau yng Nghymru ac yn gwbl ddwyieithog. Mae’n cefnogi mudiadau o bob math o sectorau sy’n chwilio am wirfoddolwyr, gan gynnwys cyrff cyhoeddus/statudol fel awdurdodau lleol, byrddau iechyd, heddluoedd, a mwy.

Mae Gwirfoddoli Cymru am ddim i’w defnyddio, ac yn ffordd hygyrch iawn o dyfu sylfaen o wirfoddolwyr neu gysylltu pobl â’r sector gwirfoddol. Ers ei ail-lansio mae wedi parhau i gael ei wella a’i fireinio er mwy rhoi mwy o help i fudiadau ddenu gwirfoddolwyr newydd i’w hachos. Mae amser pawb yn werthfawr, yn enwedig yng nghyd-destun yr argyfwng costau byw, felly ein nod yw gwneud gwirfoddoli mor syml a hygyrch â phosibl fel bod modd i wirfoddolwyr a mudiadau ddod o hyd i’w gilydd yn rhwydd.

Drwy’r pecyn yma, rydyn ni wedi darparu deunyddiau sy’n ceisio rhoi gwybodaeth i wirfoddolwyr a mudiadau sy’n gweithio gyda gwirfoddolwyr am wefan Gwirfoddoli Cymru. Rydyn ni’n gwybod bod y sector yn wynebu argyfwng recriwtio gwirfoddolwyr ar hyn o bryd, felly rydyn ni’n awyddus i ddefnyddio Gwirfoddoli Cymru i wneud ein gorau glas i helpu a sicrhau bod cymaint â phosibl o fudiadau a darpar wirfoddolwyr yn ymwybodol o fanteision y wefan. Cliciwch ar y ddolen ar gyfer pecyn gwybodaeth. https://www.cwvys.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Pecyn-ymgyrchi-Gwirfoddoli-Cymru-2025.docx

Revised Code for registrants

Effective from the 1 September 2025, the revised Code of Professional Conduct and Practice is a key document and applies to everyone registered with the EWC. It sets out the standards, behaviours, and values expected of all registrants working across education in Wales and reflects the evolving expectations of practitioners. The updates we have made, which includes the addition of a new principle around leadership, ensures that the Code is now fully relevant to all of the 13 categories we are required to register. They also bring the document in-line with current best practice around terminology.

Latest of the makeup of the workforce

Our Annual Education Workforce Statistics for Wales 2025 is the most comprehensive source of intelligence on those who work in schools, further education, youth work, and adult/work-based learning in Wales. The data is sourced from the EWC’s Register of Education Practitioners.

Additions to our suite of resources

To continue to support our registrants in meeting the standards expected of them as registered professionals, we have created/updated a number of resources. These include a series of animations highlighting key areas such as the Code of Professional Conduct and Practice and the Professional Learning Passport, new good practice guides, on-demand training videos, and free to attend live webinars. 

Cod i gofrestreion wedi ei ddiweddaru

Yn weithredol o 1 Medi 2025, mae’r Cod Ymddygiad ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol wedi ei ddiwygio yn ddogfen allweddol sy’n berthnasol i bawb sydd wedi cofrestru gyda CGA. Mae’n gosod y safonau, ymddygiadau, a gwerthoedd a ddisgwylir o’r holl gofrestreion sy’n gweithio mewn addysg yng Nghymru ac yn adlewyrchu disgwyliadau ymarferwyr sy’n newid o hyd. Mae’r diweddariadau ry’n ni wedi eu gwneud, sy’n cynnwys ychwanegu egwyddor newydd o gwmpas arweinyddiaeth, yn sicrhau bod y Cod bellach yn berthnasol i’r 13 categori y mae gofyn i ni eu cofrestru. Maent hefyd yn sicrhau bod y ddogfen yn cydymffurfio gydag arfer da o ran terminoleg. https://www.ewc.wales/site/index.php/cy/priodoldeb-i-ymarfer/cod-ymddygiad-ac-ymarfer-proffesiynol-cga

Y diweddaraf am gyfansoddiad y gweithlu 

Ystadegau Blynyddol Gweithlu Addysg Cymru 2025 yw’r ffynhonnell fwyaf cynhwysfawr o wybodaeth am bobl sy’n gweithio mewn ysgolion, addysg bellach, gwaith ieuenctid, dysgu seiliedig ar waith, a dysgu oedolion yng Nghymru. Daw’r data o Gofrestr Ymarferwyr Addysg CGA

Ychwanegiadau at ein cyfres o adnoddau 

I barhau i helpu ein cofrestreion i fodloni’r safonau y disgwylir ohonynt fel gweithwyr proffesiynol cofrestredig, rydym wedi creu/diweddaru nifer o adnoddau. Mae’r rhain yn cynnwys cyfres o animeiddiadau sy’n amlygu meysydd allweddol fel y Cod Ymddygiad ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol a’r Pasbort Dysgu Proffesiynol, canllawiau arfer da newydd, fideos hyfforddiant yn ôl y galw a gweminarau byw sydd ar gael yn rhad ac am ddim. Cod i gofrestreion wedi ei ddiweddaru

Please find links to the Young Person’s Guarantee: Process Evaluation and Summary published yesterday, which also cover the Youth Engagement and Progression Framework and may be of interest.

Gwelwch ddolenni i’r Warant i Bobl Ifanc: Gwerthusiad Proses a’r Crynodeb, a gyhoeddwyd ddoe, sydd hefyd yn ymdrin â’r Fframwaith Ymgysylltiad a Chynnydd Ieuenctid, a fydd efallai o ddiddordeb.