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Pupil absence—evidence session 3
Welcome back to the Children, Young People, and Education Committee and our item 4 on pupil absence, our third evidence session in this inquiry. I'd like to welcome our witnesses for this session, who are: Rocio Cifuentes, Children’s Commissioner for Wales…
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Thank you. And just to let Members now, we will be taking a short technical break during which we'll bring in the next witnesses for testing.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Brilliant. Thank you, Buffy. Thank you both very much for giving evidence today and for your written evidence before. I know that you've both quoted some really valuable evidence as well that I don't think appeared in the written evidence, so if you could…
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Laura, did you want to add anything, finally?
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Eithne.
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Laura.
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Buffy.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Eithne, do you want to take that?
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Buffy.
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Eithne.
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Who wants to start that one? Laura.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Thank you, Heledd. Now for some questions from Buffy Williams.
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Thank you. Laura, do you want to add anything?
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Thanks, Laura. Questions now from Heledd Fychan.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Thank you. I'll just bring Laura Doel in, because I think you wanted to come in on this.
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Laura.
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Okay. Eithne.
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Thank you. Thanks, Ken. Now for some questions from Laura—Laura Jones.
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Okay. Eithne.
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I think if both of you come in, that's fine. Go on, Laura, start—you could start.
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Okay. Ken.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Okay. Laura.
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
Eithne, did you want to come in on that one first?
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Pupil absence—evidence session 2
We'll move on to item 3 on our agenda, which is pupil absence, evidence session 2. I'd like to welcome our witnesses here with us today. We've got Laura Doel, who's the director of the National Association of Head Teachers Cymru, and Eithne Hughes, director…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People, and Education Committee. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, with all participants joining via video-conference. A Record of Proceedings will be…