24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay. Could I just take you back a step and ask: are there any plans to increase the funding for the sabbatical scheme?
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay, thank you. I'd like to bring Vaughan in here, please.
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay, thank you. In light of the raised expectations and demand of the Bill, has the Welsh Government considered whether it needs to enhance the incentives to attract new prospective Welsh-medium teachers and strengthen the support for existing teachers to…
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Yes, of course, do.
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you.
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Okay, thank you. Do you recognise the Education Workforce Council's concerns that, in order to ensure children reach the level B2 on leaving compulsory education, teachers would need to be qualified to level C1 of the CEFR to deliver on that ambition?
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. Should there be targets in the Bill to increase the Welsh-speaking capacity of the education workforce, and what are the risks if there aren't any statutory targets?
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. I'd like to bring Cefin in here, please.
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. Should there be a duty in the Bill, as called for by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and others, for the Welsh Ministers to prepare and publish a Welsh in education workforce plan as part of the national framework for Welsh language education and…
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
Thank you. To what extent has the Welsh Government's assessment of the impact on the education workforce been tested with the profession? For example, how involved in the work were the teaching unions, and what has been their reaction? And why was the…
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 16
We move on now to agenda item 2. I'm very pleased to welcome Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language; Bethan Webb, deputy director, 'Cymraeg 2050', Welsh Government; and Sioned Tobias, lawyer, Welsh Government. So, Members have a…
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you.
24 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I would like to welcome Members to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We have received apologies from Hefin David MS and Gareth Davies MS. Alun Davies MS will be substituting for Hefin until 12.30 p.m., and will be joining…
22 October 2024 , Plenary
& 9. The general principles of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill
I'd like to thank the various committees of the Senedd for their invaluable scrutiny of this Bill. We should not underestimate just how important this Bill is. If passed, it will have profound and far-reaching consequences for children in care. The eliminate…
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Moving on to item 6, I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix) that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Yes. We will now proceed in private.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Papers to note
I will now move on to item 5, which is papers to note. Full details of the papers are set out on the agenda and in the paper pack. Are Members content to note the papers together? Yes.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Thank you.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Thank you. Are there any further questions from Members? No. Well, thank you for joining us this morning. We really appreciate your time. You will be sent a transcript for checking in due course. Diolch, and thank you again.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay. Amanda.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
No. Lisa or Amanda.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
All right. Thank you. The final question, then, is from Tom Giffard, please.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay, brilliant. Thank you. Next, we have some questions from Vaughan Gething, please.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Okay. Thank you. Cefin.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Amanda.
17 October 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 15
Lisa or Amanda, anything to add?
