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Children, Young People, and Education Committee (Hybrid) - Wednesday, 17 December 2025 09.30

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Transcript: Transcript for 17/12/2025 - 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 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. 1.2 Apologies were received from Vaughan Gething MS, there was no substitute
09.30 - 11.00	2.	Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2024 - 2025 View the background to item 2. Paul Bevan, Chair, Qualifications Wales Philip Blaker, Chief Executive, Qualifications Wales [Via Zoom] Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2024 – 2025 Supporting documents: Restricted enclosure 4 View the reasons why document 2./1 is restricted Minutes: 2.1 The Committee scrutinised Qualifications Wales on their Annual report. 2.2 Qualification Wales agreed to provide a note on how many qualifications in total are on the Qualifications in Wales database, what they expect to happen to that number over the next few years and what are the implications of this.
11.00	3.	Papers to note View the background to item 3. Minutes: 3.1 The papers were noted.
	3.1	Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 View the background to item 3.1 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from CollegesWales , item 3.1 PDF 176 KB
	3.2	Information from Stakeholders View the background to item 3.2 Supporting documents: Information from Women’s Equality Network (WEN) Wales , item 3.2 PDF 208 KB View as HTML (3.2/1) 18 KB
	3.3	School improvement and learner attainment View the background to item 3.3 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education , item 3.3 PDF 261 KB
	3.4	Peer on peer sexual harassment among learners View the background to item 3.4 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education , item 3.4 PDF 479 KB
	3.5	Services for care experienced children: exploring radical reform View the background to item 3.5 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee from the Minister for Children and Social Care , item 3.5 PDF 633 KB
	3.6	Implementation of education reforms View the background to item 3.6 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from Qualifications Wales , item 3.6 PDF 229 KB
	3.7	Implementation of education reforms View the background to item 3.7 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the WJEC , item 3.7 PDF 162 KB
	3.8	Implementation of education reforms View the background to item 3.8 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the WJEC , item 3.8 PDF 161 KB
	3.9	Information from Stakeholders View the background to item 3.9 Supporting documents: Letter to the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee , item 3.9 PDF 119 KB
	3.10	Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 View the background to item 3.10 Supporting documents: Information from the Taith Programme , item 3.10 PDF 113 KB View as HTML (3.10/1) 15 KB
	3.11	Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 View the background to item 3.11 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Welsh Government , item 3.11 PDF 197 KB
	3.12	Information from Stakeholders View the background to item 3.12 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing , item 3.12 PDF 177 KB
	3.13	Forward work programme View the background to item 3.13 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education , item 3.13 PDF 483 KB
	3.14	Forward work programme View the background to item 3.14 Supporting documents: Letter to the First Minister from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee , item 3.14 PDF 148 KB
	3.15	Forward work programme View the background to item 3.15 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the First Minister , item 3.15 PDF 182 KB
	3.16	Forward work programme View the background to item 3.16 Supporting documents: Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee , item 3.16 PDF 182 KB
	3.17	Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 View the background to item 3.17 Supporting documents: Letter to the Chief Executive of Medr from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee , item 3.17 PDF 99 KB
11.00	4.	Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting View the background to item 4. Minutes: 4.1 The motion was agreed.
11.00 - 11.15	5.	Scrutiny of Qualifications Wales Annual Report 2024 - 2025 - consideration of the evidence View the background to item 5. Minutes: 5.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session.
11.20 - 12.30	6.	Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the draft report View the reasons why item 6. is restricted View the background to item 6. Minutes: 6.1 The Committee considered the draft report, it will be considered again at the meeting on 15 January.

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