Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 17 October 2024

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Naomi Stocks

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddChildren@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

(09.15 - 09.30)

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Public meeting

(09.30)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09.30)

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2 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 13

(09.30 - 10.30) (Pages 1 - 43)

Dona Lewis, Chief Executive, National Centre for Learning Welsh

Meinir Ebbsworth, Strategic Director, National Centre for Learning Welsh

Dr Ioan Matthews, Chief Executive, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

Rebecca Williams, Senior Manager for Language Skills and Workforce Planning, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Paper 1 National Centre for Learning Welsh (Translation)
Paper 2 Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

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Break

(10.30 - 10.45)

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3 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 14

(10.45 - 11.30) (Pages 44 - 51)

Rhian Edwards, Executive Director for Policy, Medr (Commission for Tertiary Education and Research)

Attached Documents:
Paper 3 Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (Medr) (Translation)

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4 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15

(11.35 - 12.35) (Pages 52 - 57)

Jonathan Morgan, Principal and Chief Executive of Coleg y Cymoedd and representing ColegauCymru

Amanda Wilkinson, Director, Universities Wales

Lisa Mytton, Strategic Director, National Training Federation for Wales [via zoom]

Attached Documents:
Paper 4 ColegauCymru
Paper 5 National Training Federation for Wales

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5 Papers to note

(12.35)

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5.1 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

(Pages 58 - 59)

Attached Documents:
Additional Information from the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Cymru following the evidence session on 02 October 2024

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5.2 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

(Page 60)

Attached Documents:
Additional information from Mudiad Meithrin following the evidence session on 26 September 2024

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5.3 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

(Page 61)

Attached Documents:
Additional Information from the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) Cymru following the evidence session on 02 October 2024

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5.4 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 62 - 63)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip from the National Deaf Society Cymru

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5.5 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 64 - 65)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Education

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5.6 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 66 - 69)

Attached Documents:
Briefing note from Universities Wales on Welsh participation in higher education

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5.7 Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?

(Pages 70 - 109)

Attached Documents:
Response to the Committee report from the Welsh Government

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5.8 Speech, language and communication needs of young people in the youth justice estate

(Pages 110 - 112)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip from the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee

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5.9 Children and Young People on the margins

(Pages 113 - 114)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from NYAS Cymru

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5.10 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

(Pages 115 - 117)

Attached Documents:
Additional information from the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) following the evidence session on 2 October 2024

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5.11 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

(Pages 118 - 119)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

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Private meeting

(12.35)

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

(12.35)

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7 Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - consideration of the evidence

(12.35 - 12.55)

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