, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Heledd. Diolch, Heledd. We have some questions now from Ken Skates. Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. Heledd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Just on this point, Laura just wanted to come in quickly.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Yes. That would be very helpful. Thank you very much, Minister. So, we'll move on now to questions from Heledd Fychan. Heledd.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Brilliant. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
No.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
In the period before the pandemic and since.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
—and the work that we've done on that in terms of our inquiry. So, it is something that all Members here feel very strongly about, so it's something to follow on from that. Just going back to the point that you made in answer to the second question that Laura…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Laura. And as you know, Minister, the committee has a particular interest in pupil absence—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
That would be really helpful, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Okay, thank you. Right, we'll move on to questions from Laura Jones. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you. I'll just bring James Evans in. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. Buffy, back to Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you. I'll just bring Laura Jones in. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Diolch, Minister. I've got some questions from Buffy Williams. Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
So, I'll move on to the first item on our agenda this morning. This is our general scrutiny of the Minister for Education and Welsh Language. I'd like to welcome you this morning, Minister, and your officials. We have Jeremy Miles, the Minister for Education…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome all Members to this meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. The public items of this meeting are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and a Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. The meeting is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Diolch, Weinidog. Last autumn, you joined me in welcoming the opening of Wibli Wobli nursery, the first Welsh language day-care nursery in Newport. Tragically, the building that housed the nursery in Rogerstone burnt down last month. The nursery's founder…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
2. What discussions is the Minister having with the Minister for Health and Social Services regarding the availability of Welsh-medium childcare provision? OQ60711
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, yes, we will now resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Everybody content? Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
Okay. And we can perhaps look more into that after, and perhaps have a discussion as well. Great. Thank you for highlighting that, Heledd. Diolch.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
Okay, we'll now move on to the next item on our agenda, which is papers to note. We have, I think, 12 papers to note this morning. Everybody happy to note those together? Yes, I can see everybody is. So, we will now proceed to meet in private—. Oh, sorry…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Implementation of education reforms - evidence session
Okay, thank you. And thank you for joining us again, for the second time this morning. Diolch yn fawr. You will receive, again, a copy of a transcript in due course, to check for factual accuracy, but thank you for joining us this morning. I'm sure you'll be…
