, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
I'll just bring Heledd in. Heledd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Thank you. Thanks, Jane. I'll just bring Buffy Williams in. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Yes, absolutely. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Okay. I'll just bring Laura Jones in now.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Brilliant. Thank you. We've got some questions now from James Evans on the screen.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Yes, just outlining the role and remit of the Education Tribunal for Wales and how it operates.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Brilliant. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
You're ahead.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Croeso nôl—welcome back. It's nice to see our next set of witnesses here this morning. We're moving on to item 5 on our agenda, which is an evidence session on the implementation of education reforms. We have with us this morning—and you're both very…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 4 and 8 of the meeting
We'll now move on to the next item. I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to meet in private for items 4 and 8 of the meeting. Does everybody agree with that? Yes, I can see everybody agrees, so we'll now proceed to…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Thank you. Thanks very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Thank you, James. And that's the end of our evidence session this morning. Thank you again for joining us and for coming in today. You will receive a copy of the transcript to check for factual accuracy in due course. Diolch yn fawr.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Vicky is going to come in, and then I'll bring you back in, James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Thank you. Back to James Evans. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
I'll just come to a question, James, from Laura Jones. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Thank you, Buffy. We've now got some questions from James Evans.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Thank you, Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Sorry, Buffy, I should bring Laura in. Laura Jones.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Diolch, Heledd. I'm sure we'll be writing to you perhaps on the specifics of our inquiry on children on the margins. Perhaps that would be helpful to get a bit more depth about some of the things you've raised today, actually. So, that will be really helpful…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now from Heledd Fychan. Heledd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
We've done quite a bit of work around this area generally, children's social care, but just looking at when we've spoken to people on the ground who work in this field and who are impacted—young people who are impacted—there's just sort of a difference…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
And you touched on some of, perhaps, the complexity, and again your report refers to the unprecedented demands in the numbers of people needing care and support. You also say that it's creating an unsustainable pressure on social care services. How realistic…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
So, you've talked about some of that improvement, but do you see—? Perhaps you could sort of expand a little bit on that statement that you made.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Care Inspectorate Wales: Annual Scrutiny
Saying that many of the issue set out in your previous annual report remained as acute 12 months on.