Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 1 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 22 November 2018

Meeting time: 09.23 - 13.04
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5101

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Lynne Neagle AM (Chair) Dawn Bowden AM Hefin David AM Janet Finch-Saunders AM Siân Gwenllian AM Julie Morgan AM
Witnesses:	Professor Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales Rachel Thomas, Children’s Commissioner for Wales Philip Blaker, Qualifications Wales Ann Evans, Qualifications Wales Emyr George, Qualifications Wales
Committee Staff:	Llinos Madeley (Clerk) Gareth Rogers (Second Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Sian Hughes (Researcher) Sian Thomas (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members. Apologies were received from Michelle Brown AM and Suzy Davies AM, there were no substitutes.

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2 Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2017-18

2.1 Members scrutinised the Commissioner on the annual report.

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3 Inquiry into the status of the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification - evidence session 3

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from Qualifications Wales.

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4 Papers to note

4.1 The papers were noted.

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

5.1 The Motion was agreed.

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6 Consideration of the evidence received under items 2 and 3

6.1 The Committee considered the evidence.

6.2 The Committee agreed to write to the Children’s Commissioner in relation to elective home education.

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7 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Budget 2019 - 2020 - consideration of the draft report

7.1 The Committee considered the draft report. The Committee agreed that the final report would be agreed electronically due to the tight timescale for laying.

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