Agenda - Children, Young People and Education Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid - Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 5 June 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Naomi Stocks

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddChildren@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.15 - 09.30

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Public meeting

09.30 - 12.45

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 1

09.30 - 10.30 (Pages 1 - 27)

Hayden Llewellyn, Chief Executive, Education Workforce Council [Via Zoom]

Eithne Hughes, Chair of Council, Education Workforce Council [Via Zoom]

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Paper 1 - Education Workforce Council

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Break

10.30 - 10.40

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3 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 2

10.40 - 11.40 (Pages 28 - 71)

Professor David Egan, Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Jack Worth, Lead on School Workforce Research for the National Foundation for Education and Research

James Zuccollo, Director of School Workforce, Education Policy Institute

Attached Documents:
Paper 2 - Cardiff Metropolitan University
Paper 3 - Education Policy Institute

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4 Teacher recruitment and retention - evidence session 3

11.45 - 12.45 (Pages 72 - 79)

Neil Butler, National Office for Wales, NASUWT

Ioan Rhys Jones, General Secretary, Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (UCAC)

Claire Rickard, Wales Executive Member, National Education Union (NEU)

Stuart Williams, Policy Officer, National Education Union (NEU)

Attached Documents:
Paper 4 - Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (UCAC)

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5 Papers to note

12.45

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5.1 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 80 - 86)

Attached Documents:
Response from University of Wales, Trinity Saint David

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5.2 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 87 - 90)

Attached Documents:
Response from Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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5.3 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 91 - 93)

Attached Documents:
Response from Swansea Council

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5.4 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 94 - 95)

Attached Documents:
Response from Isle of Anglesey County Council

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5.5 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 96 - 97)

Attached Documents:
Response from Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

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5.6 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 98 - 104)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Welsh Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Education in Wales

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5.7 School improvement and learner attainment

(Pages 105 - 106)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Education from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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5.8 P-06-1501 Put rugby in the curriculum for Wales from primary schools through to secondary Schools

(Page 107)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee from the Chair of the Petitions Committee

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5.9 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

(Pages 108 - 109)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair of the Finance Committee from the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee

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5.10 Legislative Consent: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools

(Page 110)

Attached Documents:
Information from individual

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6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

12.45

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Private meeting

12.45 - 13.00

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7 Teacher recruitment and retention - consideration of the evidence

12.45 - 13.00

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