, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you, James. Just finally from me: it's important that local authorities and schools have the flexibility to respond to the needs of learners in their areas. What would you say to people who suggest that the Bill is over-legislating?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you, Sam. I'll just bring in James Evans. James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you, Sam. We're aware that there are some significant changes happening in the education system at the moment; we've seen them with the additional learning needs reforms and the new curriculum, for example. Do you think that now really is the right time…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
We'll move on to the first item on our agenda, and that is the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill. It's our first evidence session. I'd like to welcome Sam Rowlands, the Member in charge of this Bill, and with him, he has Dr Dave Harvey, a member of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I'd like to welcome all Members to the meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee today. 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 bilingual…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to today's Children, Young People and Education Committee.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
We'll now go on to the next item on our agenda, which is papers to note. There are 15, I think, papers to note. Are Members content to note those papers together? Yes. They're set out on the agenda and in the paper pack. Great. Okay, so we will now move into…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Thank you. And thank you very much for joining us. That's the end of the evidence session today. Diolch yn fawr. We very much appreciate it. You will receive a copy of the transcript in due course to check for factual accuracy. But, again, thank you for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Thanks, James.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
James, yes, of course.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
No, that's fine. We'll move over to—. Thanks, Ken. So, now questions from James Evans.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Yes.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
No, you haven't. No, you're okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Thank you, Heledd. Back to Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Ken, two seconds, I'm just bringing Heledd in.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Can I just bring Heledd in?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Thank you. Thanks, James. We'll go into questions now from Ken Skates.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Thank you, Heledd. James Evans.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Would you be able to send us the list of—? Because I can't seem to find it in the report, a breakdown of local authority areas in terms of visits. That just might be us looking. I can see the caseload, but not the visits. But that would be really interesting…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Okay. Brilliant. Thank you. I can see the statistics in the numbers, but I didn't see the visits. So, yes. Thank you. A question—. Oh, sorry, Buffy. Back to Buffy.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
All right, sorry. I've only seen the map.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Just on the variety on the map that's provided, because obviously south Wales is a very broad area—the Valleys, cities and rurality as well—and the same with north Wales where it's not just one area, really; there's a variety of places in that. Is that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
I'll just bring James Evans in.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Brilliant. Diolch. Right, thank you very much for that, and, obviously, we'll be taking a close look at that report and the findings. Right, we'll start off with questions from Buffy Williams.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of Children's Commissioner for Wales Annual Report 2022-23
Croeso nôl. It's good to see the Children’s Commissioner for Wales has come to give evidence for the scrutiny session of her annual report today, for the next item on our agenda. I'd like to welcome Rocio Cifuentes, the children's commissioner, and Rachel…
