Committee Details

Children, Young People and Education Committee

Committee Details

News

The Committee will next meet on 20 November 2019. Wednesday 20 November is the 30th anniversary of the opening of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) for signatories. To mark this occasion, the Committee has invited Welsh Youth Parliament (WYP) Members to attend a public session to discuss the WYP’s priorities and its members’ work on the Committee’s inquiry on children’s rights.
The responses to the consultation on Education Otherwise than at School have now been published.
The Minister for Health and Social Services wrote to the Committee with an update on Perinatal Mental Health. The Committee considered the update at its meeting on 24 October. Based on the response, the Committee has decided to undertake more work on perinatal mental health.
In August the Committee wrote to the Minister for Education and the Minister for Health and Social Services outlining its conclusions and recommendations from the follow up scrutiny of its Mind over Matter report. The Welsh Government has now responded.
The Committee has concluded its consideration of the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill, Stage 3 commenced on 25 October.
The Chair wrote to the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services regarding Early Childhood Education and Care in Wales. On the 6 November the Committee received a response.

Remit

The Committee was established on 28 June 2016 to examine legislation and hold the Welsh Government to account by scrutinising its expenditure, administration and policy matters, encompassing (but not restricted to): the education, health and well-being of the children and young people of Wales, including their social care.

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