14 Hydref 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog Rhif 17.42(ix) i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o weddill y cyfarfod a dechrau'r cyfarfod nesaf ar 4 Tachwedd 2024.
Item 3 is the motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today’s meeting and the start of the next meeting on 4 November 2024. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to…
14 Hydref 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Item 2 is papers to note. We’ve got the letter from the COVID committee observation group. Can I invite Members to note that letter? Yes, noted. Okay.
14 Hydref 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau, dirprwyon a datganiadau o fuddiant
Can I move on by welcoming Sam Rowlands, who’s replaced James Evans, to the committee, as well as Rhianon Passmore, who replaces Vikki Howells on the COVID-19 special purpose committee as well? Can I thank James and Vikki for their work on the committee, and…
14 Hydref 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Penodi Cyd-gadeirydd Dros Dro
Are there any other nominations? No, that's fine. I therefore propose that Buffy Williams is appointed temporary Co-chair for today's meeting.
14 Hydref 2024 , Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee
Penodi Cyd-gadeirydd Dros Dro
Prynhawn da. Welcome, everybody, to today’s meeting of the Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee. Joyce Watson has sent her apologies. In the absence of Joyce, who is a Co-chair, the first item on today’s agenda is to elect a temporary Co-chair, in…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 12
Question singular. [Laughter.] To what extent will there always be two Welsh language qualifications, and does the Bill mean we might eventually come to a stage where there's one singular Welsh language qualification, regardless of a learner's exposure to the…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
Okay. Thank you.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
Okay. Thank you.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
And just so I'm clear, sorry, I'm very conscious of the time, that seven you mentioned, for example—it was physics, you said, wasn't it, for the seven and the two—how does that relate to the Welsh Government target? You don't happen to have the figure for the…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
No, no, and I don't think anybody would have been. On that point more generally, in terms of the subjects—because I'm particularly concerned about the secondary figures that you mention, and I think you shared that concern—I think we had a headteacher in last…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
Just for clarity—thank you for the latest figures—obviously I've got 20 per cent from 2022, and you've got 20 per cent primary, 18 per cent secondary. So, just to be absolutely clear, that is trending in the wrong direction against 2022. I appreciate we're…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 11
Okay. So, following on, Hayden, from the data you've just given us, we know that the Welsh Government's target is 30 per cent of teachers trained to teach through the medium of Welsh. In 2021-22, that was 20 per cent. Why is that target consistently being…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 10
Diolch yn fawr.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 10
Sut ŷn ni'n gwneud hwnna?
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 10
Diolch yn fawr. It's almost like you foresaw my next question. [Laughter.] To what extent are you concerned that the Bill overly focuses on English-medium schools and the development of Welsh at that end of the spectrum, and not enough on ensuring that pupils…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 10
Diolch yn fawr. You mentioned you've got concerns regarding the use of the term 'Welsh-language education' in the Bill. Do you believe the Bill rows back on the kind of accepted concept of what Welsh language education is?
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Okay. Thank you.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
And from the local authority perspective, how different is it to what local authorities and schools are already doing?
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Diolch. And finally from me, can I ask about the requirement in the Bill for all schools to have a Welsh language education delivery plan, and then local authorities review and approve them? Does the Bill make it clear enough what happens if a school doesn’t…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Just on that really quickly, you mention that you didn’t feel there was confusion, if you like, at category 1 and 3, but category 2 would be confusing. I wonder whether the title 'primarily English, partly Welsh' is something that would confuse, potentially…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Thank you. Can I ask both of you what your views are on the language categories that will be applied to schools under the Bill? I know there's talk about the dual language category, perhaps, being confused with the previous category of dual stream. Is that…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Sorry, I should say it's not a target, it's a requirement. Apologies for my phraseology.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Thank you. I understand the point about the geography, and, obviously, you'll be representing very different places in terms of where you are on this Welsh language journey and speaking in communities more generally, but I'm curious about those schools that…
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Very helpful, thank you. Marc.
9 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 9
Okay. And, obviously, the Bill allows for some flexibility in that 10 per cent to schools in that position you mentioned, that can't reach that 10 per cent. So, I take it from the evidence that you'd anticipate most Blaenau Gwent schools, if this Bill was…
