Early Years, Children, Young People and Education Committee

So, we move on now to item 2. Moving swiftly on to item 2, this is for us to look at our remit as a committee. So, our remit is deliberately wide-ranging, and that's very important to mention, that—. The Business Committee—. You'll see in the paper that we have before us, paragraph 7 of the paper, that they've allocated that the remit should be a wide-ranging one. That's deliberate, so that we can consider a wide range of topics as part of our committee work. So, our remit encompasses early years, education, including the Welsh language in education, skills, children's health and well-being, including their social care and healthcare.

Now then—

—there will be crossover with other committees, I'm quite sure of that, and there will be six Ministers that we'll be able to take evidence from and, obviously, scrutinise in terms of Government business. There's also the children's health element, which I wanted to just raise today as well. There is that shared interest with the Health and Social Care Committee, also an element of child poverty with the equality committee as well. I'm just ensuring that we're aware that, if we did want to look at children's health—and I know, in the legacy report of the last committee, it was referred to that just a brief piece of work had been done on it, but that that could be an area that we want to focus on—then I think we need to ensure that we do have that alignment with the Health and Social Care Committee, and we can consider that as part of our strategic planning, which we'll be looking at later on today.

But, as an interim, then, would Members be in agreement that it might be sensible for me to write to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee just to highlight that crossover and to demonstrate that we are, potentially, really keen to work together on the element of children's health and social care? Are Members in agreement with that approach? Excellent, diolch yn fawr. Okay, then. So, can I ask you to note the remit as agreed by the Senedd in Plenary on 16 June? Any comments or questions on the remit? Diolch. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Okay. We move swiftly on then to item 3, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix), to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of this meeting. So, I do propose, in accordance with that Standing Order, to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Diolch. Thank you very much.