23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Sorry to cut across, but when you say that some people see them as the old wet trades, where's that breakdown in that knowledge of what apprenticeships are? Is that the careers advice within schools, the teachers, parents?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Brilliant. The second set of questions that I've got here—and a lot of this has been touched on in answers to other colleagues throughout the morning—is on those potential barriers for apprentices. We've touched on the employer capacity—Barry, you mentioned…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
That's really helpful. Grant.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Before I come to you, Grant, Barry, just to stay on that point around the funding element of it, is the funding sometimes too prescriptive for the learner? I'm looking back at another inquiry we've done on something completely separate. Their ask was that…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Okay. Thank you. Anything to add, Barry?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Thank you very much. Staying with you, Lisa, I'm just wondering—. You've stated that the Welsh Government has responded well to demands from employers on apprenticeship pathways but note that the speed of the response is a challenge and can hinder filling the…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Okay. Thank you, Lisa.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Lisa, anything to add on that around Medr’s role, given its new set-up, on collation of data?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Okay.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
So, Medr should be the body that’s collating this data.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Where’s that failure come from, then, the lack of the ability to collect the data? And whose—we’ve talked about Medr and Estyn and other organisations involved—responsibility should it be to collate this data?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Thank you. Barry.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Fab, thank you. Grant.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 2 - Colegau a Darparwyr Prentisiaethau
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, both, and Lisa online as well. Needs of the employers and the economy is where I’m going to start my line of questioning, and I asked the same question of the previous panel around Estyn’s reporting that there’s no…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
Do you have anything to add, Sharron or Rhian? No. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
That’s quite helpful, because in west Wales, we know the benefits of apprenticeships, with Valero, the oil refinery, and in north Wales there's Airbus. But those big employers aren’t everywhere in Wales, so accessing apprenticeships in SMEs—plumbers…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
Thank you. Sharron, do you have anything to add?
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
Just to come back in there quickly, is the simplification of that a benefit? Is it too simple to say that, actually, just one direction would be better? Is that wide breadth of where apprenticeships are trying to tap into, as you explained, to the detriment…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
That's a really helpful analysis. Rhian, you mentioned there that national picture gap, and one question that I've raised before is the job readiness of apprenticeships so that those individuals going through an apprenticeship are fulfilling the needs…
23 Ionawr 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Llwybrau prentisiaeth - Panel 1 - Trosolwg Strategol
Thank you very much, Chair. I'm going to focus around economic needs. Estyn has reported that there is no published national analysis of trends in the offer and take-up of vocational courses set against the context of the needs of the labour market and the…
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