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[EX Q]: In 2011, a task force was sent in after watchdog Estyn found "systemic" management failures, and the council accepted changes were needed. Estyn said there have been improvements in raising standards and tackling under-performing schools. Blaenau Gwent council welcomed the report but accepted more work needed to be done. 'Limited by size' In a letter to the council, Estyn assistant director Clive Phillips said Blaenau Gwent "is judged to have made sufficient progress" and that "the authority no longer requires special measures". However, he warned that some areas still needed further improvement, such as support for pupils with additional learning needs. Mr Phillips also said Blaenau Gwent - one of the smallest Welsh councils by population - should work with other authorities to provide education services, saying its capacity to continue improvements was "limited by size". Keren Bender, the council's executive member responsible for education, said: "We are obviously delighted by Estyn's findings and it recognises the clear progress that we have made in raising standards and improving educational outcomes for learners in Blaenau Gwent. "We are, however, very clear that there are further improvements to be made, as indicated by Estyn in its official feedback which confirms the Council's own findings. "We are committed to continuing this journey of improvement to meet our ambition of raising aspirations and standards for all learners." Three of the 22 local education authorities - Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, and Torfaen - remain in special measures.
[EX A]: Education services in Blaenau Gwent have been taken out of special measures after four years.

[EX Q]: By Giancarlo RinaldiSouth Scotland reporter, BBC Scotland news website His son, Alan, took his own life at Lockerbie railway station in June 2015 aged just 31. After the funeral, Mr Ritchie decided to find out all he could about suicide and what more could be done to help people like his boy. It was not about blame, more about focus and purpose, he explained. "I've spent the last two years in a sense investigating the many charities that are involved in mental health in Dumfries and Galloway," he said. "And what I hope to do within the next year or so is focus on perhaps one or two. "I am finding out about all of these charities and then focusing in on maybe one or two where I can be of best use to them. "There are many, many charities out there and many people are perhaps not aware of that and aware of the help that they can get if they can just get to the website or a telephone number or something like that." He said the Scottish government was already doing good work to raise awareness of mental health with a 10-year action plan and its work on a suicide reduction strategy which he has been involved with. "That's where I hope that I can spread the message and signpost to people who may wish to help," he said. He recently spoke to a group of 50 mental health nursing students and, through what he describes as his "journey" with his own son, he feels he can help others to understand the issue. "He wasn't a youngster who hid his depression and anxiety - he was very willing to talk about it," he said. "He spent really half his lifetime seeking ways to help him cope with his anxiety and depression - medication, therapy, going to Samye Ling and so on." 'Lot of strength' Mr Ritchie said that if someone facing mental health challenges could talk to someone it could help their journey to "discovery and recovery" rather than feeling isolated and alone. He said: "It takes a lot of strength to actually admit: 'I don't feel well, there is something wrong with me psychologically and I need help.' "That can sometimes be something which they suppress all the time until perhaps it is too late. "Listening is very, very important." He added that simply telling someone to "man up" - as was often done - was not the way to help. He said: "That's not the right answer - the right answer should be: 'Let's sit down, let's talk about it, let's discuss it and let's see where, if you feel you want help, you can get help.'" 'Strictest confidence' Mr Ritchie said that employers could also have a part to play. "A good organisation, a caring organisation will call in such charities as, say Samaritans, who will talk to employees about what work they do," he said. He said that it sometimes helped to talk to an outsider. "Some people who have these mental health challenges don't necessarily want to discuss it or open up to family and friends but they may wish to open up to somebody who is impartial, who is non-judgmental, who is a stranger," he said. "They can speak to you in the strictest confidence. "When you are talking to people about their problems and their issues it is so important you listen and you don't judge and you don't particularly give advice." Occasions like World Mental Health Day, which falls on 10 October, help to highlight these issues. 'Help at hand' Mr Ritchie, from Lockerbie, said he had found local politicians had also been willing to spread the word about mental health and the help available. In some circumstances he believes it is appropriate to contact the emergency services - or seek urgent medical help. "If you are in a crisis and you are feeling so low that you may wish to injure yourself or take your own life - call an ambulance, talk to a friend, talk to a member of your family, go to A&E. "That's not just a personal thing that is actually written within the strategy that I have looked at through the Scottish Parliament." He said that was an option many people might not have thought about. "If you break your leg, or you're in a car accident or suddenly you've got a terrible sore stomach or a blinding headache you go to A&E," he said. "If you're depressed, if you're low if you don't know where to turn then phone Samaritans or go to A&E and take it from there, help is at hand."
[EX A]: Frank Ritchie measures his words, compelled by something inside him to talk about a subject many people would not or could not discuss.

[EX Q]: By Adrian BrowneBBC Wales political reporter First Minister Mark Drakeford has denied he is indy-curious, but his predecessor Carwyn Jones said the "shambles" around Brexit at Westminster was prompting people to start asking questions about independence. Is something afoot? Is resistance to the concept beginning to crumble? BBC Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick says "there is not much evidence of growing support for independence in itself, but there is evidence that it's being talked about a lot more." He told BBC Radio Wales the history of the independence movement is "largely the history of Plaid Cymru". Speaking on a special Breakfast with Claire Summers programme, which explored indy-curiosity, he said: "What's interesting is you now have a broader movement. "For instance at the Welsh Labour conference a few months ago there was a fringe meeting by a group called 'Labour for independence'. "Now that would never have been allowed a few years ago. "At the National Eisteddfod this year Carwyn Jones is addressing a meeting of Yes Cymru, a pro-independence group. "He's addressing it to oppose independence but I don't think he would have accepted that invitation a couple of years ago. "So it is being talked about more but's it's a conversation, if you like, rather than a huge change of mind by the Welsh population." In a random sample of views in Monmouth, a couple of miles from the English border, people were happy to join that conversation. Tom Innes, 65, owner of Fingal Rock wine shop on Monnow Street, said he was "in favour of the United Kingdom". "I'm all for regional identity. I'm a strong supporter of the Welsh language and I think it's important that Wales should have its own identity. But looking into the future, you just don't know what's going to happen in any respect anyway. So if Wales became independent, it's another unknown. So I'm in favour of retaining the whole of the United Kingdom." Barney Ashton, 43, who lives in the town, is more open to the idea of independence. "The way things are going with British politics at the moment and the way that it's governed centrally in England and looking at who's about to come into power - I'd like to be as far away from England as possible right now," he said. "If we have a bit more sense in Wales and we could separate ourselves and make a bit more of our own decisions, it might be wise. "I think Wales makes some good decisions already, you get free prescriptions. I used to live in England, I do feel a bit more cared for in Wales." Laura McAllister, Professor of Public Policy at Cardiff University, told the programme the indy-curious sentiment is "very much related to the weird and wonderful political context in which we find ourselves". Can you measure curiosity about something using opinion polls? She says that is difficult, but not impossible. "Some of the polls have actually put scales in, where people talk on a one to 10 scale about their support for independence and if you aggregate some of that around the centre then at least four in 10 of our population is interested in the concept of independence," she said. Prof McAllister agrees that interest is being prompted by Brexit, how Brexit is being handled and what that says about the current political system. "And also an awareness that Scotland has already begin to legislate in the Scottish Parliament for a second independence referendum," she said. "So having had the huge attention and publicity around the first referendum in Scotland in 2014 the public's eyes have been opened to a constitutional possibility. "That's a big difference to actually supporting it entirely but I think we're seeing generational change too amongst younger Welsh people, and particularly people who are angry at some of the policies that have impacted on Wales and there is a real energy around an alternative which might be independence." Sion Jobbins, who chairs Yes Cymru, which campaigns for Welsh independence, admits it has a "mountain to climb" if it is to ever achieve its goal. "We're not making claims that we can have independence tomorrow, but I think a few factors are changing. "I think people are asking questions. I'm seeing people who've always been quite independent-minded now have the confidence, they're coming out of the closet, they're talking about it, they feel confident to discuss it. "And we're seeing a lot of people who are moving from indy-curious to [an] independence way of thinking. "The rally we had in Cardiff, I was surprised [by] the number of people I saw there, people I never expected to see at a pro-independence rally." Geraint Davies, Labour Swansea West MP, wants more money and more "self-government" for Wales, but does not believe the sums add up for independence. "We spend £15bn more [each year] than we raise in tax because, sadly, in Wales the wages are something like 70% of the UK average, and that's why we get the billions of pounds of convergence funding [EU aid for poorer areas]." "If tomorrow we were independent we'd suddenly lose that £15bn. "In the event we were part of the EU obviously we'd get some convergence funding but then we'd face a tariff block at the border [with England] and 60% of our exports outside Britain go to the EU but most of our sales go between Wales and England. "So whilst I want more money and more self-government [for Wales] if you go as far as independence you basically cut off your nose to spite your face." Delyth Jewell, Plaid Cymru AM for the South Wales East region: "These are all important questions that we're looking at." "This is the start of something really exciting, more and more people are talking about it. "To re-coin a phrase - stop the world, Wales wants to get on."
[EX A]:
The phrase has come to prominence in Wales' national conversation in recent months.

