Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 4 July 2019

Meeting time: 09.16 - 11.38
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5522

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Lynne Neagle AM (Chair) Hefin David AM Angela Burns AM (In place of Suzy Davies AM) Janet Finch-Saunders AM Siân Gwenllian AM
Witnesses:	Dr David Blaney, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales Bethan Owen, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
Committee Staff:	Dr Louisa Nolan (Researcher) Dr Chaitanya Joshi (Researcher) Llinos Madeley (Clerk) Gareth Rogers (Second Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Phil Boshier (Researcher) Sian Thomas (Researcher) Samiwel Davies (Legal Adviser)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members. Apologies were received from Suzy Davies AM and Dawn Bowden AM. Angela Burns AM substituted for Suzy.

1.2 Under Standing Order 17.24A, Hefin David AM declared he was an associate lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

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2 Evidence session on the Higher Education new academic year allocations

2.1 The Committee heard evidence from HEFCW.

2.2 HEFCW agreed to provide an analysis of universities reserves over the last four years.

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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(vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the remainder of the meeting and for the whole meeting on 10 July

4.1 The Motion was agreed.

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5 Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - consideration of evidence in preparation for the draft report

5.1 The Committee received a presentation on the evidence received.

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6 Joint report by the Finance; Children, Young People and Education; and Equality, Local Government and Communities Committees: Assessing the impact of budget decisions - consideration of responses

6.1 The Committee considered the responses to the report.

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