Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Meeting time: 09.30
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13657

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Jayne Bryant MS (Chair) James Evans MS Sioned Williams MS (In place of Heledd Fychan MS) Laura Anne Jones MS Ken Skates MS John Griffiths MS (In place of Buffy Williams MS)
Witnesses:	Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and the Welsh Language Jo-Anne Daniels, Welsh Government Owain Lloyd, Welsh Government
Committee Staff:	Naomi Stocks (Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Michael Dauncey (Researcher) Sian Thomas (Researcher) Lucy Morgan (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.

1.2 Apologies were received from Buffy Williams MS and Heledd Fychan MS, John Griffiths MS substituted for Buffy and Sioned Williams MS substituted for Heledd.

1.3 Under Standing Order 17.24A Sioned Williams MS declared her husband was employed by Swansea University.

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2 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2

2.1 The Committee scrutinised the Minister on the draft budget.

2.2 The Minister agreed to provide a note on the following:

- a full breakdown of the £74.7 million resource funding that it announced in October would be moving from the Education and Welsh Language MEG in 2023-24.

- An outline how much the Welsh Government are expecting to ringfence for degree apprenticeships within the HEFCW/CTER budget line and whether they are expecting any transfers for degree apprenticeships from the Economy MEG within the 2024-25 financial year.

- When available the latest figures on reserves held by schools.

- Further information on the support and opportunities in place for the early years workforce.

2.3 The Committee agreed to write to the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing for further information on the Wales Police Schools Programme.

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3 Papers to note

3.1 The papers were noted.

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

4.1 The motion was agreed.

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5 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - consideration of the evidence

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session.

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