The Welsh Children's Commissioner's annual report highlights the lack of suitable toilets for school children and Plaid Cymru AM Chris Franks queried the board's plans for improving the situation.

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So the more parents are claiming free meals, the better a school appears to be doing in its annual "performance and assessment" report.

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An annual report by Estyn, Wales' schools inspection service, found 40% of pupils arrive at secondary school with reading ages below their actual age.

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It said, since November the proportion of children attending a good or outstanding school had risen from 42% to 58%, slightly higher than figures contained in Ofsted's annual report, because of more recent inspections.

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