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P-05-962 An emergency amendment to extend age of entitlement to additional educational support from 25 to 26 and to define within Government guidance the Covid 19 pandemic as an exceptional circumstance

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Meeting: 15/09/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered further updates on the petition and noted the information provided by the Minister for Education about the Welsh Government’s communication with specialist FE colleges and the extension requests approved to date.

Whilst acknowledging the petitioner’s concerns about the guidance, which go wider than the petition, the Committee agreed to close the petition.

 

Meeting: 17/07/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 P-05-962 An emergency amendment to extend age of entitlement to additional educational support from 25 to 26 and to define within Government guidance the Covid 19 pandemic as an exceptional circumstance

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Minutes:

The Committee considered further information and noted the update provided by the Minister for Education, including the confirmation that four requests for extensions have been received and all have been approved, and agreed to await a further substantive response to the issues raised in the petitioner’s previous correspondence.

Meeting: 09/06/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 P-05-962 An emergency amendment to extend age of entitlement to additional educational support from 25 to 26 and to define within Government guidance the Covid 19 pandemic as an exceptional circumstance

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the petitions for the first time and agreed to:

 

·                     write back to the Minister for Education to share the detailed arguments about the sufficiency of Welsh Government guidance presented by the petitioner, and ask specifically whether:

·                     in her view, applications to extend existing study placements for young people with learning difficulties due to the Coronavirus pandemic would be likely to meet the ‘exceptional circumstances’ test;

·                     the Government intends to communicate with specialist education settings for young people with learning difficulties to prompt them to consider whether to make such an application for their students; and

·                     post a message on social media about the action that the Committee is taking on this petition.

 

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