, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. Can I just ask whether you believe that deeper reforms are needed to achieve parity of esteem between vocational and academic routes, and what those might be?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, James. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
You're okay, James, actually. We've got—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Just to let you know, Minister, the committee will be writing to you in the next day or so, so you will receive a letter from us. We would appreciate a quick response, a speedy response if possible. But just to let you know we shall be writing to you. James…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Siân, did you want to come in on that point?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. Moving on to James Evans, who's got the last section of questions for us—James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you for that. I think committee members would be very grateful to you for doing that and keeping us informed of the progress on it. Just finally from me, can you set out the Welsh Government's assessment of the impact of the end of EU funding on the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Okay, thank you, Minister. That's very helpful. The independent panel report to the review of post-18 education, conducted by the UK Government, recommended reducing fee levels and introducing some means of controlling student numbers. Has the Welsh…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Laura. Thank you, Minister. Just moving on to further education pay, can you set out the basis for the figure of £1.5 million provided to the further education sector to meet the latest pay award?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Laura, did you want to come back in on some of those questions?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Buffy, and thank you, Minister. We'll now move on to Siân Gwenllian, and we're going to talk about post-16 education.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Yes, no, very grateful for that. I think we all, Members and the Minister, appreciate there's a lot to go through here, but the briefer we can be, the more we can get through. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. We'll now move on with Buffy Williams. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Okay. Minister.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, and I'll bring Laura in now—briefly, if you can, Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Siân. We're very tight on time, so I really think we're going to have to keep going, because there are very important issues to discuss and we won’t get very far otherwise. So, I’m going to bring in Ken Skates.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Okay. Thank you, Minister. I'll just bring Siân Gwenllian in now.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. Just to clarify one of the points coming from your answer, really, are schools within their rights to advise parents to keep children home if there is a positive case in their household?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
Does the Minister want to come in?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
We now move on to item 6 on our agenda, which is the general scrutiny session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language. I'd like to welcome the Minister Jeremy Miles, Minister for Education and Welsh Language, and his officials, Owain Lloyd…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for agenda items 4 and 5
Item 3 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting. I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for agenda items 4 and 5. Are Members content? Yes, all Members…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
The first item on the agenda is papers to note. As there are a large number of papers to note, I suggest that they're all noted together. Are Members content with this? Yes, I see that Members are content with that.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I wish to welcome Members to the first meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee of the autumn term. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, with all participants joining via video-conference. A Record of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. I'd like to welcome Members to this first meeting of the autumn term of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that answer, First Minister. The impact of the pandemic on learners in Wales has been unprecedented. Pupils have faced huge upheavals and many have seen their best laid plans and career paths disrupted through no fault of their own. In a recent…
