Concise Minutes - Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Meeting time: 09.31 - 12.21
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15703

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Buffy Williams MS (Chair) Natasha Asghar MS Cefin Campbell MS Russell George MS Carolyn Thomas MS
Witnesses:	Philip Blaker, Qualifications Wales Dr Paul Bevan, Qualifications Wales
Committee Staff:	Naomi Stocks (Clerk) Leah Whitty (Second Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Michael Dauncey (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.

1.2 Apologies were received from Vaughan Gething MS, there was no substitute

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2 Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2024 - 2025

2.1 The Committee scrutinised Qualifications Wales on their Annual report.

2.2 Qualification Wales agreed to provide a note on how many qualifications in total are on the Qualifications in Wales database, what they expect to happen to that number over the next few years and what are the implications of this.

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3 Papers to note

3.1 The papers were noted.

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

4.1 The motion was agreed.

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5 Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2024 - 2025 - consideration of the evidence

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session.

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6 Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the draft report

6.1 The Committee considered the draft report, it will be considered again at the meeting on 15 January.

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