Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 2 Senedd and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 2 April 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

09.00 - 09.15

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1 Routes into post-16 education and training - Discussion with the Citizen Engagement Team about engagement findings

09.15 - 09.30 (Pages 1 - 39)

Attached Documents:
Engagement Findings

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Public meeting

09.30 - 11.30

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2 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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

09.30 - 11.30 (Pages 40 - 85)

Lynne Neagle MS, Cabinet Secretary for Education

Vikki Howells MS, Minister for Further and Higher Education

Jack Sargeant MS, Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership

Hannah Wharf, Deputy Director, Support for Learners, Welsh Government

Ruth Meadows, Director of Tertiary Education, Welsh Government

Jo Salway, Director, Social Partnership, Employability & Fair Work, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Welsh Government

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4 Papers to note

11.30

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4.1 Legislative Consent: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

(Pages 86 - 87)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Llywydd and Chair of Business Committee from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

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4.2 Legislative Consent: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

(Page 88)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Who from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

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4.3 Children on the margins

(Pages 89 - 93)

Attached Documents:
Briefing note from Crisis

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4.4 P-06-1507 We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus

(Pages 94 - 98)

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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4.5 Review of the Public Bill and Member Bill processes

(Pages 99 - 100)

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

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4.6 Issues facing the Higher Education Sector

(Pages 101 - 104)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from Cytûn: Churches Together in Wales

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4.7 Legislative Consent: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

(Pages 105 - 114)

Attached Documents:
Email correspondence to the Children, Young People and Education Committee from Education Otherwise

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4.8 Legislative Consent: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

(Pages 115 - 117)

Attached Documents:
Email correspondence to the Children, Young People and Education Committee from Home Ed Cymru

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the whole of the meeting on 8, 14 and 21 May

11.30

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Break

11.30 - 11.40

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Private meeting

11.40 - 12.30

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

11.40 - 12.00

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7 Legislative Consent: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - consideration of the evidence

12.00 - 12.15 (Pages 118 - 137)

Attached Documents:
Children's Legal Centre Wales
The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium
National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS)
Bevan Foundation
Welsh Local Government Association

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8 Legislative Consent: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

12.15 - 12.30 (Pages 138 - 154)

Attached Documents:
Briefing note
Legal advice note

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