More teachers will be recruited for state schools in Wales if Labour wins the UK general election, the first minister has promised.
Vaughan Gething said the move will be funded by Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to add tax to private school fees if he becomes prime minister.
There are about 2,500 private schools in the UK, with fewer than a hundred in Wales.
Welsh Labour launches its general election manifesto in north Wales on Friday.
Education is devolved, meaning the Welsh government is responsible for policy and spending decisions on schools in Wales.
Currently, private schools do not have to charge value added tax (VAT) on their fees because of a legal exemption for organisations providing education.
The UK Labour Party manifesto pledges to end private schools’ VAT exemption.
Ministers in London decide VAT policy.
On Friday, Mr Gething will tell party activists in north east Wales: “Through ending tax breaks for private schools, we will fund the recruitment of new teachers in key subjects.
“Creating a society where everyone has the chance to succeed.”
Welsh Labour’s leader will also unveil plans for a new scheme to get businesses and unions to work together to improve employment rights.
Mr Gething says the Fair Work Fund – Gwaith Teg in Welsh – will pay for projects to tackle unfair practice and bullying in the workplace.
It will be financed through the replacement for the money which used to come to Wales from the European Union and be distributed by the Welsh government.
The first minister said the policy will be “a priority” if Labour wins the general election.
The scheme will “supplement” Sir Keir’s Starmer’s “New Deal for Working People” plan and “create good fair work for all”.
Welsh Labour said unions and businesses “will be invited” to work with the Labour Welsh government to design the fund.
Sir Keir has faced criticism from the Unite union, which says he has watered down his workers’ rights offer in a “New Deal for Working People”.
In his plan, he pledges to end fire and re-hire, a practice where businesses dismiss workers and then hire them back on worse deals.
Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union, said the deal “had more holes in it that Swiss cheese”, however, Sir Keir said it was “the biggest levelling up of working peoples’ rights for a generation”.
