, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. In what kind of circumstances do you envisage local authorities granting primarily English language, partly Welsh schools an exemption from the duty to provide an amount of Welsh language education in accordance with their category? Are you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. Part of the rationale for the changes to school language categories through non-statutory guidance in 2021 was to recognise schools' Welsh-medium activities outside of the curriculum, which the Welsh Government at the time said 'do not get the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. One of our committee members has had internet problems, so I'll be asking Tom's questions: can you expand on the statement in the explanatory memorandum to the Bill that the challenge in terms of monitoring the Welsh language education provided in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. We'll now move on to questions from Cefin Campbell.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Did you want to come in, Heledd?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. I think Cefin wants to come in.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
How significant is the use of the term 'Welsh language education' rather than 'Welsh-medium education' when discussing the provisions of the Bill? To what extent does this reflect that this involves English-medium schools as well as Welsh-medium schools? Is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Welcome back. We move on to agenda item 3. I'd like to welcome Heledd Fychan MS and Lee Waters MS, who will be joining us from the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee for our scrutiny of this Bill. I'm very…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, Minister and your officials for coming to committee today. We really appreciate your time. You'll be sent a transcript for checking in due course. Thank you so much for your time this morning. We'll now take a short break until…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
I just have one final question for you. You've talked a lot about the single unified safeguarding review being groundbreaking, but that's for cases where things have gone wrong. What can you do to break down information barriers before things go wrong?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sorry, Julie, can I ask: do you know how often the safeguarding boards meet? Or if they meet at all?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you. We'll bring in Julie Morgan now, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Can I just quickly ask what is your view on specialist social care teams for criminally exploited children?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you. Cefin, did you want to come in?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Brilliant. Thank you. Sorry, Gareth.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Gareth, can I just jump in here a second, before we move on too far? The joint inspections of child protection arrangements that Taryn was speaking about, Estyn has told us that 'there is no current plan to continue these inspections due to the current…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sorry, Gareth, could I just bring Julie Morgan in quickly here?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Could I—?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Thank you, Tom. Thank you. We'll now move on to Gareth, please.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sorry, Tom.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Children and Young People on the margins - evidence session
Sorry, Tom. Can I just jump in here a second? We have heard on more than one occasion that some gangs use the NRM to avoid children being arrested. Do you have any views on that? We have heard this on more than one occasion, through our evidence gathering…
