Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 1 - Senedd

Meeting date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Meeting time: 09.01 - 11.23
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/3770


Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Lynne Neagle AM (Chair)

Mohammad Asghar (Oscar) AM

Michelle Brown AM

Hefin David AM

John Griffiths AM

Llyr Gruffydd AM

Andrew RT Davies AM (In place of Darren Millar AM)

Julie Morgan AM

Witnesses:

Carl Sargeant AM, Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children

Albert Heaney, Welsh Government

Jo-Anne Daniels, Welsh Government

Nigel Brown, CAFCASS Cymru

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk)

Sian Thomas (Researcher)

 

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Transcript

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

The Chair welcomed Members.  Apologies were received from Darren Millar, Andrew RT Davies substituted.  Under Standing Order 17.24 Llyr Gruffydd AM declared he was a former Vice President of CWVYS.

 

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3       Paper(s) to note

The following papers were noted.

 

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3.1   Welsh Government response to the Committee of Advertising Practice consultation on introducing restrictions on the non-broadcast advertising of food and soft drinks to children,

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3.2   Letter to the Chair from NSPCC Cymru

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3.3   Letter from the Chair to Cabinet Secretary for Education - Education Improvement Grant: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller, and Minority Ethnic Children

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3.4   Letter from the Chair to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children - Statutory Advocacy Provision

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3.5   Correspondence from Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS) in relation to the Youth Work Inquiry

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

The Motion was agreed.

 

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5       Scrutiny of Welsh Government draft budget 2016-17 - wash-up

The Committee discussed the evidence heard during the session.

 

The Committee agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary about the issues raised during the session.

 

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6       Inquiry into Youth Work - Consideration of key issues paper

Members agreed to consider the paper at a future meeting.

 

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7       Consideration of the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Children and Social Work Bill

The Committee considered the LCM.  A report will be laid recommending that the Assembly agrees the LCM Motion.

 

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8       Diamond Review: draft letter to Cabinet Secretary for Education

The Committee agreed the letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education.

 

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