, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Just on Buffy's first question about independence from the Welsh Government, in the setting up of this commission, we had a lot of evidence from a lot of stakeholders who were very concerned about the Welsh Government's involvement and how independent the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
That's what I like to hear, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Yes. Just picking up a point, this is about an area that I really care about, actually on apprenticeships, and especially degree apprenticeships as well. I'm just interested in your views on this, as you're going to be leading the organisation, going forward…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Diolch, Cadeirydd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Just a broader question: you will be managing post-16 education across the country, and I am interested in your personal view on what you think the biggest challenges are for education in Wales at the minute and how you think the commission can help address…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Final question, if I can, Chair. On relationships, of course, you will be managing the operational side of the commission. I just wondered how you intend to work with the chair and the vice-chair of the commission as well and how you see that relationship…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Good. One thing we like to know in Wales is that we’re a global country as well; we do punch above our weight around the world, and I’m just interested in how you plan to work with stakeholders outside Wales to actually push what we’re actually doing here.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Okay. The post-16 sector is very diverse, as we all know; we’ve got our universities, our colleges and others, and they are different, and they’re going to have different needs, different needs for learners, different needs for the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for Chief Executive of the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research
Yes, thank you. Good morning, Simon. I'm just interested: what changed your mind? Obviously, the post was advertised before. You didn't apply when it was first advertised. I'm just interested as to why you changed your mind and, obviously, when approached…
, Plenary
Short Debate: A permanent commemoration of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
I want to thank my good friend and colleague Tom Giffard for bringing forward this important debate today. Her late Majesty the Queen was a remarkable individual, an exceptional individual, and right across the United Kingdom the way we mark exceptional…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Minister, I thank you very much for your statement today, and, in comments that are related to Jane Dodds's, rural communities find it extremely difficult to access public transport, but, as you said about the TrawsCymru area, not everywhere is going to be…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
I've got a really, really quick question, if that's okay. You said the money and the support follow the assessment, so do you think there should be a different look at how we allocate funding, and actually we let parents and education professionals have a bit…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
Because what we are seeing—and you said it yourself—that attendance rates in mainstream schools for learners with ALN are low. They are lower than those for other pupils, and what I’d like to know is: what policies do you think the Welsh Government could come…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
Do you think parents are saying, 'Well, we’ll have to go to special schools, because we don’t think that we’ll get the assessment', or they won’t get the help or support they need if they actually stay in mainstream education? Do you think that could be a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
If I go into that a bit further: we know there are 9,000 children across Wales at the minute waiting for an autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessment.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. You sort of mentioned this earlier following an earlier question from my colleague Ken Skates, and it’s around the amount of children with additional learning needs now going into special schools, and I was just wondering your views on why…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 2
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, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
Just to make a point, in the part of the world that I represent, with my colleague the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, between the two of us our constituencies are 165 miles long and there are only two settings in that whole area. It's a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
I was going to touch on the Welsh language and how it's important that everybody can access the provision that they need, and the educational provision and support that they need, through the language of their choice. But, one thing that I do just quickly…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
Moving on to education, it is very important that people can access the provision that they want to access, and no-one should be discriminated against because they've got a disability. To what extent do you think that children with a disability are being…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Children's commissioner, parents have got to make a lot of informed choices, haven't they, about their children, and also the children themselves have got to make a lot of choices as well, and it's important that they are given the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
It's a shame that the Government don't listen to a position that they appointed you to. I think it's just a shame, really, that you're there to represent young people's voices and the Government invented the position but they don't even listen to it—I just…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
It's on transport. You said you made strong recommendations to Government on this. I know others made recommendations to Government on this, and they're not listening. Why do you think that is? Why do you think Government just aren't listening to you, and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare?—evidence session 1
I'll come back to it later. Thank you.
