Education minister Leighton Andrews wants to place a legal duty on local authorities to agree school term dates on a national basis to ensure parents with links to more than one school have the same holidays as their children.
Currently all 22 local authorities in Wales can set different term dates creating challenges for parents who work in one school while their children attend another, or families with children at different schools in neighbouring authorities.
Mr Andrews said: “Different term dates can cause problems for some families, including difficulties with finding childcare, as well as the challenge of meeting additional childcare costs.
“Taking this into account, my intention is to harmonise school term dates for all maintained schools in Wales, with variations occurring very occasionally and only where they can be fully justified.”
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