Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 26 March 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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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 9

09.30 - 10.30 (Pages 1 - 24)

Cllr Lis Burnett, Spokesperson for the Welsh Local Government Association

Sharon Davies, Head of Education, Welsh Local Government Association

Gwyn Tudur, Assistant Head of Education at Gwynedd County Council and representing the Association of Directors of Education in Wales

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Welsh Government Association WLGA and Association of Directors of Education in Wales ADEW

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Break

10.30 - 10.45

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3 Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 10

10.45 - 11.45 (Pages 25 - 34)

David Hagendyk, Chief Executive, Colegau Cymru

Lisa Michelle Thomas, Principal of Merthyr College and Chair of Colegau Cymru

Attached Documents:
Colegau Cymru

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4 Papers to note

11.45

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4.1 Routes into post-16 education and training

(Pages 35 - 36)

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

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4.2 Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny

(Pages 37 - 38)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children Young People and Education Committee from Care Inspectorate Wales

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4.3 P-06-1488 Establish a ‘Care Society’ to Tackle the Long COVID Crisis in Wales

(Pages 39 - 40)

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

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4.4 Teacher recruitment and retention

(Pages 41 - 42)

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

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4.5 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 43 - 47)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Equality and Human Rights Commission

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4.6 Issues facing the Higher Education Sector

(Page 48)

Attached Documents:
Letter to all Welsh Universities from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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4.7 Children on the margins

(Page 49)

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

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4.8 Routes into post-16 education and training

(Page 50)

Attached Documents:
Response from the National Centre for Learning Welsh to the questions that were unasked at the meeting on 13 March

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4.9 Legislative Consent: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

(Pages 51 - 52)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Chair of Equality and Social Justice Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip, and Minister for Further and Higher Education

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4.10 Legislative Consent: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

(Pages 53 - 55)

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

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4.11 Issues facing the Higher Education Sector

(Pages 56 - 60)

Attached Documents:
Response from Cardiff University to questions from the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(xi) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for item 1 at next week's meeting

11.45

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

11.45 - 12.00

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7 Discussion on issues facing the Higher Education Sector

12.00 - 12.15

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8 Pre appointment hearing for the Chair of the Qualifications Wales Strategic Board - consideration of the approach

12.15 - 12.30 (Pages 61 - 65)

Attached Documents:
Private paper

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