She promised a "comprehensive" literacy and numeracy programme to improve standards if a Plaid Cymru Welsh government is elected at the next assembly election in 2016.

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Carwyn Jones AM insisted that the Welsh government was seeking to tackle the problem and stressed that a National Numeracy and Literacy Programme had been set up to address this.

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He explained the two key literacy and numeracy targets set out in the programme for government.

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