Agenda - Equality and Social Justice Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3, Senedd

Meeting date: 31 March 2025

Meeting time: 13.30
For further information contact:

Mared Llwyd

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEquality@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Pre-meeting registration

(13.00 - 13.30)

Public meeting (13.30 - 15.45)

(13.30)

1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(13.30)

2 Social Cohesion: evidence session three

(13.30 - 14.30) (Pages 1 - 32)

Dr Lindsay Cordery-Bruce, Chief Executive of Wales Council for Voluntary Action

Eleri Williams, Building Communities Trust

Attached Documents:
Paper 1 - Building Communities Trust
Paper 2 - WCVA
Research Service Briefing

Break (14.30 - 14.45)

3 Social Cohesion: evidence session four

(14.45 - 15.45)

Jacqueline Broadhead, Director, Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity and Migration Oxford / Inclusive Cities 

Jonathan Downs, Corporate Policy Lead, Oldham Council 

Kate James, Policy and Research Officer, Migration Yorkshire

4 Papers to note

(15.45)

4.1 Correspondence from Colm Gildernew MLA Chairperson of the Committee for Communities, Northern Ireland Assembly regarding proposed UK welfare reform

(Pages 33 - 34)

Attached Documents:
Paper to note 4.1 correspondence from Colm Gildernew MLA regarding welfare reform - 19 March 2025

5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting

(15.45)

Private meeting (15.45 - 16.15)

6 Social Cohesion: consideration of evidence

(15.45 - 16.00)

7 Forward work programme

(16.00 - 16.15) (Pages 35 - 40)

Attached Documents:
Paper 3 - Scoping Paper