Apprenticeships and training

Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

20 January 2026, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Coal Tip Safety

…and emergency planning. It will also help build a skills pipeline for the future, including through apprenticeships and post‑16 education pathways. Wales, Dirprwy Lywydd, has the opportunity to lead once again, this time not through mining itself, but through developing world-leading expertise in…

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Jane HuttLabour

20 January 2026, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

…really positive feedback from your visit to Pembrokeshire College, where you saw that real delivery of vocational qualifications very much related to the local economy, rural Wales and the skills that are needed. I will share this with the Minister for Further and Higher education, because I know of…

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Paul DaviesConservative

20 January 2026, Plenary

Business Statement and Announcement

Trefnydd, I’d like to request a statement from the Welsh Government on the delivery of vocational qualifications here in Wales. Yesterday, I visited Pembrokeshire College's centre for land-based learning in Haverfordwest with my colleague Samuel Kurtz. We learned about the range of agriculture and…

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Chris Nottingham

19 January 2026, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1

…family workshops, cooking workshops, trying to bring self-reliance, and if there's a generational skills gap, trying to make sure that our communities are resilient enough. But as much work as we can do around improving cooking skills, et cetera, that won't make a difference for people who are…

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James Owen

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

…the individuals who were happy to share their stories and experience around how they accessed the personal learning accounts and then moved into new employment through that reskilling programme, but I would have to write you on the detail of the 1,000 interventions.

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

And you mentioned that funding was provided directly to one provision, Bridgend community college for adult learning. What decision making has taken place to provide funding to this specific institution?

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James Owen

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

Yes. I'd just go back to our personal learning accounts. They're a really good intervention there for part-time learning, for reskilling and upskilling, as an example. It enables the learner to identify the training and upskilling that would be right for them as well. So, there is a range of…

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James Owen

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

I think that's a really important point. Thinking about this as the provision of work-based learning opportunities rather than just apprenticeships I think is important for us, to think about how we invest not just the apprenticeship budget in the delivery of apprenticeships to people, but also the…

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Vaughan GethingLabour

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

I think that would be helpful. And just finally, there's this point about apprenticeships and a course of study over a period of time, and the flexibility to go into the world of work and be part of that as well. That's really attractive for a number of people—and a range of skills as well…

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Vaughan GethingLabour

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

…and training', one of the striking statistics was the significant number of people who want to do an apprenticeship, and this thing is eight or nine times the size, as their first choice, compared to the actual numbers who get to do it. So, there's always an issue for whoever is in Government about…

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James Owen

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

…An example of that is we've heard from the construction sector about the need for level 2 construction apprenticeships to be reintroduced. We've been working closely with Qualifications Wales and Welsh Government around proposals to reintroduce that, because that's responding quite quickly to a need…

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Vaughan GethingLabour

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

…going to be more apparent. So, I'm interested in how you actually look at that in the frameworks of apprenticeships, and making sure they're generally fit for purpose for the learner and their experience, but also for the sectors they want to go into, so people don't have an apprenticeship that a…

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James Owen

15 January 2026, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Annual Scrutiny of Medr

I think the overwhelming feedback that we've had around the current apprenticeship programme is that we need to develop something that is more responsive and flexible to changing economic and skills needs. The way that the current programme works was as a commercially procured model seven years ago…

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