Agenda - Equality and Social Justice Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 (Senedd)

Meeting date: 13 May 2024

Meeting time: 13:30
For further information contact:

Gemma Gifford & Rhys Morgan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEquality@senedd.wales

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Pre-meeting registration: 13:00-13:30

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(13:30)

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2 Childcare follow up inquiry: Ministerial evidence session

(13:30-14:45) (Pages 1 - 29)

Jayne Bryant, MS, Minister for Mental Health and Early Years

Clare Severn, Head of Early Childhood Education and Care, Childcare and Play Policy, Welsh Government

Alex Slade, Director of Primary Care, Mental Health and Early Years, Welsh Government

Early Childhood Play, Learning and Care Plan in Wales (Detailed version)

Early Childhood, Play, Learning and Care Plan in Wales (High Level Plan)

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3 Papers to note

(14:45)

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3.1 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Culture to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee regarding Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement: Safety, Security and Migration Interministerial Group

(Page 30)

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3.2 Correspondence from the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Culture regarding general Ministerial scrutiny

(Pages 31 - 32)

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3.3 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Culture to the Chair regarding the report of the Equality and Social Justice Committee – “Actions, not Words: towards an anti-racist Wales by 2030”

(Pages 33 - 45)

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3.4 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee regarding the Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Criminal Justice Bill

(Pages 46 - 57)

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4 Motion under SO17.42 (vi) to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting

(14:45)

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5 Childcare follow up inquiry: consideration of evidence

(14:45-15:00)

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6 Governance of Fire and Rescue Services: consideration of draft report

(15:00-15:40) (Pages 58 - 82)

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