Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 2 Senedd and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 17 September 2025

Meeting time: 09.00
For further information contact:

Naomi Stocks

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddChildren@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private meeting

09.00 - 09.30

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1 Teacher recruitment and retention - presentation of engagement findings

09.00 - 09.30 (Pages 1 - 45)

Attached Documents:
Engagement Findings

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Public meeting

09.30 - 11.00

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2 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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3 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 10

09.30 - 11.00 (Pages 46 - 91)

Lynne Neagle MS, Cabinet Secretary for Education

Christopher Warner, Deputy Director, School Practitioner Division, Welsh Government

Awen Penri, Strategic Education Workforce Plan Lead, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Teaching in Finland
Paper - Welsh Government

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4 Papers to note

11.00

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4.1 P-06-1317 Recognise Teaching Assistants as an important asset to schools by raising wage

(Page 92)

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

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4.2 P-06-1499 Stop the use of term 'Universal Provision' as a reason to deny ALN

(Pages 93 - 94)

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

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4.3 Learner Travel

(Pages 95 - 99)

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

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4.4 Learner Travel

(Pages 100 - 101)

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

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4.5 Teacher recruitment and retention

(Pages 102 - 103)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from The Open University

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4.6 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 104 - 106)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee and the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

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4.7 Pre appointment hearing for the Chair of the Qualifications Wales Strategic Board

(Page 107)

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

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4.8 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 108 - 109)

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

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4.9 Pre appointment hearing for the Chair of the Qualifications Wales Strategic Board

(Page 110)

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

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4.10 Information from Stakeholders

(Pages 111 - 117)

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

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4.11 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

(Pages 118 - 130)

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

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4.12 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

(Pages 131 - 136)

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

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4.13 Reviewing Committee Effectiveness in the Sixth

(Pages 137 - 139)

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

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4.14 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Pages 140 - 141)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

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4.15 Teacher recruitment and retention

(Pages 142 - 143)

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

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4.16 Forward work programme

(Pages 144 - 153)

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

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4.17 Issues facing the Higher Education Sector

(Pages 154 - 161)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the President and Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University

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5 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 25 September, 2 and 8 October

11.00

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Break

11.00 - 11.10

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6 Routes into post-16 education and training - consideration of the draft report

11.20 - 12.20 (Pages 162 - 326)

Attached Documents:
Covering paper
Draft Report

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7 Reviewing Committee Effectiveness in the Sixth Senedd - consideration of the letter from the Llywydd

12.20 - 12.30 (Page 327)

Attached Documents:
Letter from Chair's Forum

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8 Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the evidence

11.10 - 11.20

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