Concise Minutes - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 5 June 2025

Meeting time: 09.30 - 13.07
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15119

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Buffy Williams MS (Chair) Natasha Asghar MS Cefin Campbell MS Vaughan Gething MS Joel James MS Carolyn Thomas MS
Witnesses:	Hayden Llewellyn, Education Workforce Council Eithne Hughes, Education Workforce Council Professor David Egan, Cardiff Metropolitan University Jack Worth, National Foundation for Education and Research James Zuccollo, Education Policy Institute Neil Butler, The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) Ioan Rhys Jones, UCAC Stuart Williams, National Union of Teachers Claire Rickard, National Education Union (NEU) Cymru
Committee Staff:	Naomi Stocks (Clerk) Tom Lewis-White (Second Clerk) Sarah Bartlett (Deputy Clerk) Sian Hughes (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.

1.2 Vaughan Gething MS sent his apologies for the start of the meeting, he joined the meeting at 10am.

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2 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 1

2.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Education Workforce Council.

2.2 The Committee agreed to write to the Education Workforce Council with some follow-up questions.

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3 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 2

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from Cardiff Metropolitan University, the National Foundation for Education and Research and the Education Policy Institute.

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4 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 3

4.1 The Committee heard evidence from the NASUWT, UCAC and NEU.

4.2 The NEU and NASUWT agreed to provide an analysis of the figures from the survey carried out with its Members.

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5 Papers to note

5.1 The papers were noted.

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6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

6.1 The motion was agreed.

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7 Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the evidence

7.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had heard in the previous evidence sessions.

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