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P-05-821 Reintroduce educational support funding for MEAS and the TES to local authorities

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Meeting: 07/05/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-821 Reintroduce educational support funding for MEAS and the TES to local authorities

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The Committee agreed to close the petition in light of the Welsh Government’s reinstatement of grant funding for these services in 2018-19 and 2019-20, and the scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s budget undertaken by the Children, Young People and Education Committee, including the Education Improvement Grant.

Meeting: 18/10/2018 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 Letter from the Chair of the Petitions Committee - Petition P-05-821 Reintroduce educational support funding for MEAS and the TES to local authorities

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Meeting: 25/09/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 P-05-821 Reintroduce educational support funding to MEAS and the TES to Neath Port Talbot CBC

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The Committee considered correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the petitioner and agreed to share a copy of the Children, Young People and Education Committee’s report on this issue. The Committee also agreed to write to the CYPE Committee to highlight the petition in light of that Committee’s upcoming scrutiny of the Welsh Government budget for 2019/20.

 

Meeting: 03/07/2018 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 P-05-821 Reintroduce educational support funding to MEAS and the TES to Neath Port Talbot CBC

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Members considered the petition for the first time and agreed to write back to the Cabinet Secretary for Education to ask for details of:

  • for further information about the formula used to allocate funds to each local authority under the EIG and the transitional arrangements recently announced;

 

  • for details of what consultation was undertaken with councils or stakeholders prior to the decision to mainstream support for ethnic minority, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller learners; and

 

  • how the Welsh Government intends to monitor the impact of this change and the continued provision of support by local authorities.

 

 

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