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Children, Young People, and Education Committee (Hybrid) - Thursday, 6 February 2025 09.30

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Transcript: Transcript for 06/02/2025 - Children, Young People, and Education Committee

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Expected timing	No.	Item
09.30	1.	Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest View the background to item 1. Minutes: 1.1 Buffy Williams MS sent her apologies. Under Standing Order 17.22, Carolyn Thomas MS was elected as Temporary Chair. 1.2 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. 1.3 Apologies were received from Buffy Williams MS and Joel James MS, there were no substitutes.
09.30 - 10.30	2.	Medr - Annual Scrutiny session View the background to item 2. Simon Pirotte, Chief Executive Officer, Medr James Owen, Chief Operating Officer, Medr Supporting documents: Restricted enclosure 4 View the reasons why document 2./1 is restricted Paper Medr , item 2. PDF 1 MB Funding Assumptions for Academic Year 2025/26 , item 2. PDF 1 MB Minutes: 2.1 The Committee scrutinised Medr. 2.2 Medr agreed to provide a note on the number of patent filing rates at Welsh universities.
10.40 - 11.10	3.	Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 3 View the background to item 3. Simon Pirotte, Chief Executive Officer, Medr Rhian Edwards, Executive Director for Policy, Medr Supporting documents: Response from Medr , item 3. PDF 2 MB Minutes: 3.1 The Committee heard evidence from Medr. 3.2 When published, Medr agreed to submit their statistical analysis of progression from year 11 to different types of tertiary education as evidence to the Committee.
11.15 - 12.15	4.	Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 4 View the background to item 4. Nerys Bourne, Director of Customer Strategy and Service Development, Careers Wales Mark Owen, Head of Services to Stakeholders, Careers Wales Supporting documents: Restricted enclosure 10 View the reasons why document 4./1 is restricted Response from Careers Wales , item 4. PDF 284 KB Minutes: 4.1 The Committee heard evidence from Careers Wales.
12.15 - 13.15	5.	Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 5 View the background to item 5. Lisa Mytton, Strategic Director, National Training Federation for Wales [via zoom] Dr Ben Calvert, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Wales and Vice-Chair of Universities Wales [via zoom] Amanda Wilkinson, Director of Universities Wales [via zoom] Supporting documents: Response from National Training Federation Wales (NTFW) , item 5. PDF 555 KB View as HTML (5./1) 13 KB Response from Universities Wales , item 5. PDF 464 KB Minutes: 5.1 The Committee heard evidence from Universities Wales and the National Training Federation Wales. 5.2 Universities Wales and the National Training Federation Wales agreed to respond in writing to any questions that the Committee did not have time to ask during the evidence session
13.15	6.	Papers to note View the background to item 6. Minutes: 6.1 The papers were noted.
	6.1	General scrutiny of Ministers with responsibility for health and social care View the background to item 6.1 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee and the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Minister for Children and Social Care , item 6.1 PDF 170 KB
	6.2	Children on the margins View the background to item 6.2 Supporting documents: Welsh Government response to the Committee’s report ‘Children on the margins’ , item 6.2 PDF 289 KB
	6.3	Children on the margins View the background to item 6.3 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Chief Executive of NYAS Cymru , item 6.3 PDF 194 KB
	6.4	Child Poverty View the background to item 6.4 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Chair the Equality and Social Justice Committee , item 6.4 PDF 100 KB
	6.5	Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill View the background to item 6.5 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Fostering Network , item 6.5 PDF 263 KB
	6.6	Information from Stakeholders View the background to item 6.6 Supporting documents: Report from the Royal Society of Chemistry on the Future Workforce and Educational Pathways , item 6.6 PDF 169 KB View as HTML (6.6/1) 16 KB
	6.7	Information from Stakeholders View the background to item 6.7 Supporting documents: Letter to the Minister for Social Care from the Expert Advisory Group on Childcare (EAGC) , item 6.7 PDF 139 KB
13.15	7.	Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting View the background to item 7. Minutes: 7.1 The motion was agreed.
13.15 - 13.30	8.	Routes into post-16 education and training - consideration of the evidence View the reasons why item 8. is restricted View the background to item 8. Minutes: 8.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session. 8.2 The Committee agreed to invite a panel of work based training representatives and academic to give evidence on 13 March. It also agree to conduct engagement visits on 20 March, including to a school sixth form and a further education college.

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