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P-05-860 Make curriculum for life lessons compulsory
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Meeting: 25/02/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
Minutes:
The Committee agreed to close the petition in light of the work of the Welsh Youth Parliament on this subject, and to encourage the petitioner to engage with the Youth Parliament as part of their ongoing work.
Meeting: 19/11/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 19 KB View as HTML (3/1) 6 KB
- 22.10.19 Welsh Youth Parliament's Life Skills in the Curriculum Committee report: Life Skills, Skills for Life, item 3 PDF 4 MB
Minutes:
The Committee agreed to await the views of the petitioner on the latest developments, including the recent report produced by the Welsh Youth Parliament, before considering whether it can take any further action on the petition.
Meeting: 25/06/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 6 PDF 36 KB View as HTML (6/1) 6 KB
- 05.06.19 Correspondence - MInister for Education to Chair, item 6 PDF 273 KB
- 19.06.19 Corresopndence - Petitioner to Chair, item 6 PDF 98 KB View as HTML (6/3) 8 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered further correspondence and agreed to make the Welsh Youth
Parliament aware of the petition in to the context of the work they are taking
forward on Life Skills in the Curriculum. The Committee agreed to await their
findings before considering further action on the petition.
Meeting: 07/05/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
Minutes:
The
Committee considered the petition alongside P-05-861 Make political education a compulsory element of the new national curriculum
and agreed to write back to the Minister for Education to ask:
·
for
an interim solution to be put in place, either through the current PSE
curriculum or the Welsh Baccalaureate, to support young people who might be
voting for the first time in 2021; and
·
for
consideration to be given to other ways young people can access information in
relation to political education outside the school curriculum, for example
through youth work settings.
Meeting: 19/03/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 36 KB View as HTML (3/1) 6 KB
- Correspondence – Minister for Education to the Chair, item 3 PDF 287 KB
Minutes:
The Committee considered correspondence from the Minister for Education on this petition and P-05-861 Make political education a compulsory element of the new national curriculum, and agreed to await the views of the petitioners on the further information provided by the Minister for Education before deciding whether it can take any further action on the petitions.
Meeting: 29/01/2019 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 2 PDF 36 KB View as HTML (2/1) 6 KB
- Research brief, item 2 PDF 70 KB View as HTML (2/2) 45 KB
- 19.12.18 Correspondence – Minister for Education to the Chair, item 2 PDF 362 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:
·
write
a combined letter in relation to this petition and P-05-861 to the Minister for
Education to query whether it is possible to begin to implement improvements to
the teaching of life skills to pupils in schools ahead of the full
implementation of the new curriculum by 2022, and how, in the context of
providing flexibility to professionals, the Government intends to ensure that pupils
receive sufficient grounding in life skills during their education; and
·
await
a response from the petitioners to the correspondence received from the Welsh
Government before considering whether to take further actions on the petition.