Meetings

Continuous Professional Development (Fifth Senedd)

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 15/03/2017 - Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 1)

Briefing on legislative scrutiny

Daniel Greenberg

Minutes:

1.1.      The Committee received a briefing on legislative scrutiny from Daniel Greenberg, Expert Adviser.


Meeting: 08/03/2017 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)

5 Letter to Chairs on Continuous Professional Development

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Members agreed to consider this at a future meeting.


Meeting: 07/12/2016 - Chairs' Forum - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - (12:25 - 12:40)

Abi Phillips - Assembly Commission Staff, Professional Development Project Manager

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Abi Phillips outlined the contents of the paper and asked Chairs to comment on the effectiveness of CPD delivered to committees since May, their appetite for further sessions and feedback on the facilitators used.

 

The Llywydd expressed a wish for more support for Members in asking questions noting that simply reading out prepared, suggested, questions was not effective.  More detailed questioning techniques were needed to enhance scrutiny. 

 

It was noted that PAC had requested a follow-up session after the initial work with Kate Faragher.  They had received candid feedback on earlier scrutiny sessions. The Committee had also agreed a further session in 6 months’ time.  It was agreed that officials would prepare a note for chairs on how the PAC sessions had been run to enable them to consider their wider application.

 

[UPDATE: Completed.]

 


Meeting: 13/07/2016 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Presentation on Members Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Supporting documents:

  • Paper 5: Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for Committee Members and Chairs

Minutes:

Members of the committee were given a presentation on Assembly Member continued professional development (CPD)


Meeting: 05/10/2015 - Management Board (Item 5)

Continuous Professional Development arrangements for Members and AMSS in the Fifth Assembly

MB 12-15 Paper 2 – CPD in the Fifth Assembly draft Commission – cover paper

MB 12-15 Paper 2 – CPD Review Findings

Supporting documents:

  • Restricted enclosure 15
  • Restricted enclosure 16

Minutes:

Carys Evans was welcomed to the Management Board to discuss outcomes from the in-depth review into the CPD programmed for the Fourth Assembly, carried out by the CPD team with Gareth Watts. The review sought to learn lessons and make recommendations for the future and included surveying Assembly Members to capture their views.

Overall Members were happy with the provision and uptake levels were high, but there were challenges to address in relation to effective evaluation of the impact of the CPD provided, ensuring accountability with Members for their staff's training and that training reached AMSS outside of Cardiff.

Management Board made the following recommendations:

·                more time should be given to CPD, in particular, for committee Chairs; the paper should draw from the draft Chairs' forum report;

·                more emphasis should be made of bilingualism - Carys Evans and Mair Parry-Jones to discuss;

·                the CPD report and the following item (welcome and induction) should be combined into one paper; and

·                Non Gwilym, Lowri Williams and Carys Evans to discuss external promotion of how we provide our CPD programme.

The overall direction and outline approach would be presented to Commissioners at their meeting on 21 October.