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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Thank you, Buffy. Now some questions from Sioned Williams.
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Thank you. And now some questions from Buffy Williams.
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Okay. Just finally from me, how much of a problem do you think it is that sexual harassment is not a specific criminal offence, and do you think the current law gives necessary means to address it?
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Do you think that there's a clear enough understanding, really, about what sexual harassment is, and would you consider perhaps providing a clear definition in the various education safeguarding guidance, and training perhaps for front-line staff, just to say…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Yes, please.
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Thank you, Ministers. Last week we heard evidence from some students from Coleg Cambria who came into the Senedd, and they told us that sexual harassment among peers is so commonplace that the pupils themselves often don't know when it's happening. How…
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
Thank you. Minister for Social Justice.
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Peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners—evidence session 13
We'll move on to the first item on our agenda, which is our inquiry into peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners. This is our thirteenth evidence session and the last evidence session for this inquiry. I'd like to welcome Ministers and their officials…
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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, with all participants joining by video-conference. I'd like to remind members joining virtually not to…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. Welcome to this meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: School Attendance
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd, and thank you, Minister, for your very welcome statement this afternoon and the details that you've provided within that. As you've said, tackling learner absence is key, and I think we've all agreed today that it really is a crucial…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, in that case, we'll move on to the next part, which is that I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? I see that Members are content, so we will…
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Papers to note
I see that Members are all content to note those papers.
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Papers to note
The first item of the agenda is papers to note. The full details of the papers are set out on the agenda and in the meeting papers. There are a number of papers to note today. Just to highlight a couple of those papers to note: paper to note No. 6 is a letter…
, 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, with some participants joining via video-conference. Just to say that this meeting is bilingual and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee.
, Plenary
Debate: Estyn Annual Report 2020-21
Diolch, Llywydd. I'd like to thank Claire Morgan for her work during her time as interim chief inspector, and I'd also like to extend a warm welcome to Owen Evans, who took up the substantive post in January 2022, and it's really good to see Owen here in the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Prif Weinidog. Children and young people who are in residential care need as much love, compassion and support as possible, and I'm proud that the Welsh Government is committed to that. In Newport, we're starting to see the benefits of the Perthyn…
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Questions to the First Minister
6. How is the Welsh Government working to provide high-quality care for children and young people in specialist residential homes? OQ57940
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Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Moving on to the committee's findings, we made 37 recommendations, and I obviously don't have time to cover all of them today, so I'll be focusing on recommendation 1, and then those looking at the commission's membership, the commission's strategic duties…
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Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. Thank you very much, Minister, for your opening remarks. I'm pleased to see some of the commitments that you have made today. I'd like to open by thanking all those who contributed to our scrutiny of this Bill. We know that the…
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Questions to the First Minister
Diolch, Prif Weinidog. 2019 saw 51 per cent of Wales's electricity consumption come from renewables, with onshore and offshore wind making the biggest contribution. However, the world has changed greatly since 2019—sky rocketing gas prices and over-reliance…
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Questions to the First Minister
2. What is the Welsh Government doing to promote large-scale renewable energy projects in Wales? OQ57811
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, we'll now move on to item 7, and I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? I see Members are content, so we will now proceed in private.
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Papers to note
We'll now move on to item 6 on the agenda, which is papers to note. You can see that we've got a number of papers to note—45 papers to note. Are Members content to note those papers? I see that Members are content.
