Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 1 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 2 May 2019

Meeting time: 09.02 - 14.25
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5517

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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Lynne Neagle AM (Chair)

Hefin David AM

Dawn Bowden AM

Suzy Davies AM

Siân Gwenllian AM

Jayne Bryant AM (In place of Jack Sargeant AM)

Witnesses:

Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services

Karen Cornish, Welsh Government

Emma Gammon, Welsh Government

Jamie Gillies, Be Reasonable

Sally Gobbett, Be Reasonable

Andy James, Equal Protection Network Cymru

Catriona Williams, Children in Wales

Vivienne Laing, NSPCC Cymru

Menna Thomas, Barnardo’s

Katherine Shelton, Cardiff University

Professor Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Rachel Thomas, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Committee Staff:

Llinos Madeley (Clerk)

Gareth Rogers (Second Clerk)

Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk)

Michael Dauncey (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 Jack Sargeant AM, Jayne Bryant AM substituted.

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2       Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 1

2.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Deputy Minister.

2.2 The Deputy Minister agreed to provide further clarification on whether the Explanatory Memorandum’s estimated 274 cases of reasonable punishment reported to the police in Wales per year included smacking only, or smacking as part of a wider range of behaviours.

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3       Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 2

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from Be Reasonable Wales.

3.2 They agreed to provide a note on the following:

·         details of the evidence cited about the impact of physical and non-physical punishment of children;

·         further detail on the assertion that the defence of reasonable punishment had been invoked three times in nine years in England, including whether wider charges were being brought at the time in those individual cases and;

·         further information on prosecution rates in relation to physical punishment in New Zealand.

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4       Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 3

4.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Equal Protection Network Cymru.

4.2 They agreed to provide a note on the following:

 

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5       Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 4

5.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Children’s Commissioner.

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6       Papers to note

6.1 The papers were noted.

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

7.1 The Motion was agreed.

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8       Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - Consideration of the evidence

8.1 The Committee considered the evidence heard during the sessions.

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9       Inquiry into School Funding - Consideration of the key issues

9.1 Due to time constraints the paper would be put on the agenda for next week’s meeting.

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