Agenda - Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 27 November 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Naomi Stocks

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddChildren@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.15 - 09.30

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Public meeting

09.30 - 11.00

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - evidence session

09.30 - 11.00 (Pages 1 - 83)

Lynne Neagle MS, Cabinet Secretary for Education

Vikki Howells MS, Minister for Further and Higher Education

Georgina Haarhoff, Director of Education, Welsh Government

Ruth Meadows, Director of Tertiary Education, Welsh Government

Claire Bushell, Deputy Director, Finance & Governance, Welsh Government

Emyr Harries, Deputy Director, Education Infrastructure, Governance & Finance, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Welsh Government Evidence Paper

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3 Papers to note

11.00

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3.1 Health and social care workforce

(Pages 84 - 85)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chief Executive of Swansea Bay University Health Board and the Chief Executive of HEIW from the Chair of the Health and Social Care

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3.2 Teacher recruitment and retention

(Pages 86 - 91)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education

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3.3 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 92 - 93)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from Keith Towler

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3.4 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

(Pages 94 - 95)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for the Health and Social Care, Minister for Children and Social Care and Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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3.5 Scrutiny of the Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report

(Pages 96 - 97)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Children’s Commissioner for Wales from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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3.6 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Pages 98 - 99)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Education

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for the whole meeting on 4 December

11.00

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Private meeting

11.00 - 12.45

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Break

11.00 - 11.15

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5 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 - consideration of the evidence

11.15 - 11.45

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6 Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the draft report

11.45 - 12.45 (Pages 100 - 228)

Attached Documents:
Draft report

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