Welsh-medium education

Angharad Morgan

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

…professional staff between those sectors, and we need to ensure that increasing our ability to provide Welsh-medium education, or to teach through the medium of Welsh, in the statutory sector doesn't have a negative impact on the ability of the early years and post-statutory sector to continue with…

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Dr Gwennan Schiavone

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

…of the Bill that set out clearly how this whole agenda, and this whole ambition of developing Welsh-medium education, acknowledges that challenge and responds to the challenge by setting targets and setting out how the Government will deliver against those targets in terms of upskilling the current…

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Tom GiffardConservative

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

…in terms of ensuring the necessary education workforce is in place to deliver the increased amount of Welsh language education provision envisaged? If it doesn't, how do you think it could be strengthened to do that?

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Buffy WilliamsLabour

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

Thank you. I'm really conscious of time now, so I don't think we'll be able to bring in any more supplementary questions, so if you can keep answers really succinct. Thanks, Tom.

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Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

…a Fi, and how the cylchoedd meithrin also work. I think often that parents don't always opt out of the Welsh-medium sector, but there's no cylch meithrin available to them conveniently, there's no Welsh-medium school available, there's no transport to take their children to Welsh-medium education…

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Lee WatersLabour

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

Yes, I think that's a very interesting response, because that loaded, value-laden language lands very badly with some communities. You may not want them to respond in that way, but all the evidence of human behaviour is that a minority do, and it only takes a minority to create social dislocation.…

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Dr Gwennan Schiavone

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

I think that there's a major responsibility here in terms of how we discuss and talk about Welsh language education, and that we don't create a bugbear of something that isn't one. Securing an opportunity for every child in Wales to develop a new skill—that's what we're doing here, something that…

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Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

I have to admit I've never given that any thought, because the annual data of the Mudiad that we gather from all cylch meithrin settings, and then interpret and share with local authorities and the Government, does demonstrate that very few children leave the cylchoedd meithrin non-maintained sector…

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Lee WatersLabour

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

Yes, please. I just wanted to test some of the unintended consequences of this, because I understand the desire to not have exemptions. There is a danger we've made the perfect the enemy of the good here, and there's also a danger we're creating local social dislocation if we are being perceived to…

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Dr Gwennan Schiavone

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

To start, I would say that 10 per cent is a very low percentage in terms of a pupil’s experience within school, and I would say that that isn't ambitious enough, given our ultimate target and goal. So, that's the first point I would make in that regard. In terms of these exemptions, I think the…

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Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

…cope with schools that claim to be on a continuum, but never deliver that aspiration of becoming a Welsh-medium school.

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Angharad Morgan

26 September 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4

I do have concerns, because who decides that a school should be exempt, and for how long? I think that we need to consider how we transition schools that are, at present, unable to provide that minimum 10 per cent in the early implementation of the legislation. But I also think that we need to…

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