Agenda - Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 3 Senedd and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 19 November 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 - 12.15

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - evidence session

09.30 - 11.00 (Pages 1 - 61)

Jeremy Miles MS, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Dawn Bowden MS, Minister for Children and Social Care

Sarah Murphy MS, Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Albert Heaney, Chief Social Care Officer for Wales, Welsh Government

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

Sioned Rees, Director of Public Health Protection, Welsh Government

Hywel Jones, Director of Finance for Health, Social Care & Early Years, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Welsh Government Evidence Paper

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Break

11.00 - 11.15

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3 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - evidence session

11.15 - 12.15 (Pages 62 - 79)

James Owen, Chief Executive, Medr

Geoff Hicks, Director Development, Investment and Performance, Medr

Rhian Edwards, Executive Director Policy and Investment, Medr

Attached Documents:
Research brief

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4 Papers to note

12.15

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4.1 Implementation of education reforms

(Page 80)

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

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4.2 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Page 81)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

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4.3 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

(Page 82)

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

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4.4 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 83 - 84)

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

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4.5 General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Education

(Pages 85 - 86)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee, Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee and Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education

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

12.15

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Private meeting

12.15 - 12.30

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6 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - consideration of the evidence

12.15 - 12.30

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