, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Annual Scrutiny of Medr
You're very welcome this morning, and thank you for joining us. Members have a series of questions this morning, and I'd like to start with Cefin, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Annual Scrutiny of Medr
We'll move on now to agenda item 2, which is a scrutiny session with Medr. Please may I welcome Medr and can you introduce yourselves for the record?
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv. A Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. The meeting's bilingual and simultaneous translation…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. The Treherbert line is vital for Rhondda residents to get to work, to school and to college. For too long we were stuck with an unreliable service and old rolling stock. The difference we've seen over the last four years, as part of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
6. Will the First Minister provide an update on the improvements made to the Treherbert line as part of the South Wales Metro investment? OQ63669
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Moving on to item 5, I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix) that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content? Yes. Thank you. We will now proceed in private.
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Papers to note
I'll now move on to item 4, which is papers to note. We have six papers to note today, the full details of which are set out on the agenda and in the paper pack. Are Members content to note the papers? Yes. Thank you.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Do Members have any additional questions that they'd like to ask? No. Thank you so much for coming in this morning and meeting with us. I hope it wasn't too stressful. We really do appreciate your time. You'll be sent a transcript to check in due course, but…
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you. Deb is nodding away there.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thanks, Deb. What is the main recommendation you want this committee to make in terms of the support for young people and parents when considering what their options are after year 11?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Are you okay to stay on a few extra minutes, because we are running over, as usual? How important, if at all, is the education maintenance allowance in supporting young people’s decisions to stay in post-16 education?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you. We'll have some questions from Cefin now, please.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Yes.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Deb, did you want to come in first?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you, Deb. More questions from Natasha, please.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Deb, did you want to come in here?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Sorry. Questions now from Carolyn.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you. I'm sorry, Natasha, I didn't even realise when I was talking that I was basically covering your question.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you. We now have some questions from Natasha, please.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
So, would that support earlier on in their school life be better, say, from post 14 rather than post 16, so that they've got that two-year gap to build on to move forward? Do you think that would be more helpful?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. So, it sounds like almost the more visual, tactile and involved they can be, the better, then.
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you, that's interesting. Deb, did you want to come in here?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
And did she go into the A-level setting because she was pushed that way, or did she just feel that that's what we do, and because she just wasn't getting the correct advice for her within the school setting?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
And did that experience give her more confidence then to move forward? Do you feel that that time out and that time within those extra settings gave her that extra boost of confidence to be able to go back?
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Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Can I ask, when she stepped outside that space, what did she do? What was the driver, then, to get her to go back into education?
