, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Business Minister, can I please request a statement from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs about the ongoing issues at Ty Llwyd quarry in Ynysddu? Serious concerns remain about an apparent illegal discharge…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Understood. Thank you so much, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Got you. Okay. Deb, did you want to add anything? After that, I'm done then, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
So, just for my clarity, the plans that you've made with your, I want to call them career advisers from Careers Wales, those plans are targeted for the schools? Are they targeted for the local council? Where are they going exactly?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Have you both, when it's come to your children, when it's come to their learning, when it's come to their careers, when it's come to aspiration, have you had any interaction with Careers Wales at all, and how's your relationship been with them? Because we…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Can I just ask one final question?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you. Deb, did you want to add anything to that one?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
And who do you feel should be responsible for giving that information: teachers, various support groups, Welsh Government? Who do you think should fly the flag and say, 'We're going to make sure all parents are fully aware of what's available to them'?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Is that for all children or just those children who specifically have additional learning needs?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay. So, that feeds nicely into my last question, which is: do you have any comments, as parents, and you both are, indeed—? Do you feel that you get all the information that you need to support your children in order to get into higher education, and…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Karen, do you have anything you want to add?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Thanks so much, Chair. We've had some concerns from schools with sixth forms that they tend to actually want to keep young people continuing to carry on doing their A-levels in order to keep their numbers up. It sounds horrible, but that's, unfortunately…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
No, it's fine—it happens all the time; don't even worry about it. It's fine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Understood. Thank you so much for your answers. Thank you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
Okay, understood. Thank you so much for that answer. Karen, do you have anything to add?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
I completely understand. And my last question, because I know you've covered a lot of the answers to questions that I was going to ask you, but you mentioned, I believe it was Deb, in answer to one of the questions that Buffy asked, in relation to role…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
And a viewpoint that some children and young people have is they're not good enough, they're not cut out for university. Is that something that's very much from their teachers, from their peers, or is it just generally everyone around them?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 2
I think you’ve covered pretty much everything I wanted to ask you, but in relation to age, I completely appreciate what you're saying, and I think that when the child moves from junior school to secondary school it's a huge jump for them in every sense of the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you so much. Thanks, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Medr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Okay. I’m sure we will in future, rest assured. Thank you so much for that. So, who’s responsible for the poor quality of the information going out to young people then? And who can improve it?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
Of course you can, yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
So, to make it simpler, then, in a one-word answer, who do you think should be responsible for supplying the information to make sure that they’re aware of just the options that are available to them?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Routes into post-16 education and training - evidence session 1
There's just one final question and it's on an area and subject that everyone's touched upon, in the phrase, but I think we should ask a question on it. It's: to what extent does the poor quality of information and support provided to learners at school…
