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Transcript: Transcript for 16/01/2025 - Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Items
Expected timing No. Item

09.30

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.

1.2 Apologies were received from Natasha Asghar MS, there was no Substitute.

1.3 The Chair welcomed Jenny Rathbone MS who was joining the Committee under Standing Order 17.49.

 

09.30 - 11.00

2.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - evidence session 2

Lynne Neagle MS, Cabinet Secretary for Education

Vikki Howells MS, Minister for Further and Higher Education

Georgina Haarhoff, Interim Director of Education, Welsh Government 

Ruth Meadows, Director of Tertiary Education, Welsh Government

Clare Bushell, Deputy Director, Finance & Governance Education, Culture & Welsh Language, Welsh Government

Emyr Harries, Deputy Director, Education Business & Governance, Welsh Government

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

2.1 The Committee scrutinised the Cabinet Secretary and Minister on the Draft Budget.

2.2 The Cabinet Secretary agreed to provide a note on the following:

- Estimations of what it would cost to roll out free-school-meals in secondary schools.

- The changes that are taking place following the ‘strategic review of education partners’.

- Information on the funding available to support the school improvement partnerships in the context of the establishment of a new national learning and leadership body.

 

 

 

 

11.00

3.

Papers to note

Minutes:

3.1 The papers were noted.

3.1

Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

Supporting documents:

3.2

Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny

Supporting documents:

3.3

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

Supporting documents:

3.4

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

Supporting documents:

3.5

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill

Supporting documents:

3.6

The Food (Promotion and Placement) (Wales) Regulations 2025

Supporting documents:

11.00

4.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the whole of the meeting on 22 January

Minutes:

4.1 The motion was agreed.

11.00 - 11.45

5.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - consideration of the evidence

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous session.