Agenda - Equality and Social Justice Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 5 (Ty Hywel)

Meeting date: 13 October 2025

Meeting time: 13.30
For further information contact:

Rhys Morgan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEquality@senedd.wales


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** In addition to the breaks published on the agenda there will also be periodic comfort breaks, called by the Chair **

 

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At its meeting on 6 October, the Committee resolved to exclude the public from item 1 of its meeting on 13 October 2025

 

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Pre-meeting

(13:30-13:45)

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Private session

(13:45- 14:15)

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1       Forward work programme - consideration of upcoming streams of work

(13:45-14:15)                                                                                                  

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Public session

(14:15- 15:30)

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2       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(14:15)                                                                                                             

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3       Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session nine

(14:15-15:30)

                                                                                                   (Pages 1 - 25)

Councillor Ash Lister, Welsh Local Government Association

Sarah Capstick, Welsh Local Government Association

Lee Wenham, Swansea Council

Cathryn Morgan, Ceredigion County Council

 

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4       Papers to note

(15:30)                                                                                                             

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4.1   "Long-term national strategy, designing a contemporary practice" - an article from the Heywood Foundation

                                                                                                           (Page 26)

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4.2   Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill - consultation responses

                                                                                               (Pages 27 - 240)

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4.3   Correspondence to the Cabinet Secretary for Social justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip from the Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention regarding the use of Tasers on children

                                                                                             (Pages 241 - 245)

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6 and 7 of this meeting

(15:30)                                                                                                             

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Private session

(15:30-16:00)

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6       Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill: consideration of the evidence

(15:30-15:45)                                                                                                  

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7       Reviewing Committee effectiveness in the 6th Senedd: consideration of response

(15:45-15:55)                                                                                                  

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Break

(15:55-16:00)

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Public session

(16:00-17:00)

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8       Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session ten

(16:00-17:00)                                                                                                  

Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

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