Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 3
(Senedd)
Meeting date: 12 May 2025
Meeting time: 13.30
For further information contact:
Mared Llwyd
Committee Clerk
0300 200
6565
SeneddEquality@senedd.wales
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13:30)
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Public
meeting
(13:30-14:45)
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(13:30)
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Social cohesion: ministerial evidence
session
(13:30-14:45)
(Pages 1 - 38)
Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Andrew Charles, Deputy Director, Cohesive
Communities, Welsh Government
John Davies, Head of Cohesion, Welsh
Government
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Papers to note
(14:45)
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3.1 Correspondence from the Minister for Children and
Social Care to the Chair regarding the expansion of the Flying
Start programme
(Pages 39 - 40)
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3.2 Correspondence from the Minister for Culture, Skills
and Partnership to the Chair of the Environment, Transport and
Rural Affairs Committee regarding the Welsh Government’s
legislative consent memoranda on the Employment Rights
Bill
(Pages 41 - 42)
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3.3 Correspondence from the Children's Legal Centre Wales
to the Chair regarding the strip searching of children in
Wales
(Pages 43 - 63)
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3.4 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip to the Chair regarding speech ,
language and communication needs in the criminal justice
system
(Pages 64 - 65)
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3.5 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip to the Post-Custody Accommodation
Working Group regarding support for Prisoners
(Pages 66 - 67)
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3.6 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip to the Chair regarding the Welsh
Government's response to the Committee's report: "Anything’s
Achievable with the Right Support - Tackling the Disability
Employment Gap"
(Pages 68 - 78)
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3.7 Response from the Welsh Government to the Equality
and Social Justice Committee's report on the response to the
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Employment Rights
Bill
(Pages 79 - 82)
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of
this meeting
(14:45)
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Private
meeting
(14:45-15:30)
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5
Social cohesion: consideration of
evidence
(14:45 -
15:15)
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6
Disability and Employment: consideration
of response and additional work
(15:15-
15:30)
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