Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee room 4 Senedd and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 6 February 2025

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 - 13.15

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Medr - Annual Scrutiny session

09.30 - 10.30 (Pages 1 - 28)

Simon Pirotte, Chief Executive Officer, Medr

James Owen, Chief Operating Officer, Medr

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Paper Medr
Funding Assumptions for Academic Year 2025/26

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Break

10.30 - 10.40

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3 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 3

10.40 - 11.10 (Pages 29 - 49)

Simon Pirotte, Chief Executive Officer, Medr

Rhian Edwards, Executive Director for Policy, Medr

Attached Documents:
Response from Medr

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4 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 4

11.15 - 12.15 (Pages 50 - 88)

Nerys Bourne, Director of Customer Strategy and Service Development, Careers Wales

Mark Owen, Head of Services to Stakeholders, Careers Wales

Attached Documents:
Research Brief
Response from Careers Wales

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5 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 5

12.15 - 13.15 (Pages 89 - 109)

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

Dr Ben Calvert, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Wales and Vice-Chair of Universities Wales [via zoom]

Amanda Wilkinson, Director of Universities Wales [via zoom]

Attached Documents:
Response from National Training Federation Wales (NTFW)
Response from Universities Wales

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6 Papers to note

13.15

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6.1 General scrutiny of Ministers with responsibility for health and social care

(Pages 110 - 111)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee and the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Minister for Children and Social Care

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6.2 Children on the margins

(Pages 112 - 129)

Attached Documents:
Welsh Government response to the Committee’s report ‘Children on the margins’

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6.3 Children on the margins

(Page 130)

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

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6.4 Child Poverty

(Page 131)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Chair the Equality and Social Justice Committee

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6.5 Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill

(Pages 132 - 134)

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

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6.6 Information from Stakeholders

(Page 135)

Attached Documents:
Report from the Royal Society of Chemistry on the Future Workforce and Educational Pathways

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6.7 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 136 - 138)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Minister for Social Care from the Expert Advisory Group on Childcare (EAGC)

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

13.15

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Private meeting

13.15 - 13.30

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8 Routes into post-16 education and training - consideration of the evidence

13.15 - 13.30 (Pages 139 - 142)

Attached Documents:
Private paper - Use of Committee slots on 13 and 20 March 2025

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