29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you, Deb. What kinds of things should be included in the information provided to neurodivergent learners, or learners with additional learning needs, so that they are fully informed to make decisions about their future after year 11?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Deb, did you want to come in here?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay, thank you, Deb. So, what factors do you think have the most influence on the choices young people make about their options after year 11? Karen.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thank you. Deb, did you want to come in here?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay, welcome back. We move on now to agenda item 3, which is the second evidence session for our inquiry. I'm very pleased to welcome Karen Berell and Deb Austin, who is online. We've just received apologies from Joel James as well. So, Deb and Karen are…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. So, we’ll now take a short break for five minutes. Thank you.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. Thank you so much for your time this morning. We could keep you here the whole day, unfortunately for you. We do still have a number of questions to ask. Is it okay if we write to you with those questions? We really do appreciate it when you do…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. Does any other Member have a question they'd like to ask, because I think we have literally one minute?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Mary, please.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Yes.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you for your answer, we appreciate it. Carolyn, please.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. We're going to have to move on because we're so short on time. I have a question. If you could be as concise as possible with your answers, because I know that Carolyn's got questions that she's desperate to ask as well. How well do you think that…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Very quickly. We're so short on time.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Anybody else very quickly?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
I'm really sorry, as I'm so conscious of time, could I bring Cefin in with his questions now while we're on this subject, because it's so interesting? I know you have the questions around Welsh-medium education.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. We'll now move on to some questions from Natasha, please.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. Carolyn, please.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. And my final question: what would your ideal model of the careers advice for pupils in schools and colleges look like, and do you think there's an age that careers advice should start? I'll open that to everyone again. Yes, Mary.
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Did anybody else want to—?
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. Statistics provided to us from Parentkind show that 39 per cent of parents in Wales with a young person in secondary or post-16 education agree that their child's school or college helps them to explore a broad range of career possibilities. This…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Thank you. My next question is for NASUWT. In your written submission, you state that the quality and nature of information provided to learners is varied. Why do you think this is, and what is the impact of this on learners when making decisions about their…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
We'll now move on to agenda item 2, which is the first evidence session for our inquiry. I'm very pleased to welcome, online, Siôn Amlyn, policy and casework official, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers; Ioan Rhys Jones, general…
29 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
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 and a Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. The meeting is bilingual and simultaneous…
16 January 2025 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
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
Moving on to item 4, 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 and for the whole meeting on 22 January. Are Members content? Yes. We will now proceed in private.
