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Teaching assistants aren't being trained to deliver Welsh curriculum, survey finds

TEACHING assistants say they aren’t being trained to deliver the curriculum in Wales.

A survey found 66 per cent said they had not received enough training to teach it.

A spokesman for their union, Unison, said: “Others said that on in-service training days, which are meant to be used for staff development, they had been asked to clean classrooms and do photocopying. 

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