2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Any additional—?
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
And that's ultimately the question. Are we perhaps just overthinking it, and it's just a change in terminology, or is it something more meaningful than just a terminology issue? That's all we're trying to establish, really.
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
So, obviously, as we know, the WESPs are something that's established, but, in the original White Paper published by the Welsh Government, they were advertised as WEIPs—Welsh in education strategic plans. I'm just trying to establish whether the difference in…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Yes, I think that's important. Just finally, if I may, Chair, when we took evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, he told me—or told us, as a committee, I should say—that local authorities had asked for the name and the concept of…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Yes. Any more comments?
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 7
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning, everybody. I want to focus on Part 4 of the Bill, if I may. The Welsh Government wants to establish a clear line of accountability, in their words, at a national, local and school level for the planning of Welsh…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
It's more for argument's sake. It's because, obviously, we have had legislation embedded within Welsh society for over 30 years, but, based on the evidence that you've given prior to my line of questioning, that's why it led to the question of—. If those…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
I don't think that's a fair assessment of my comments, that it's a failure of the public sector—
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Essentially, in that regard, is the system flawed, then, in that it can't achieve what—? So, you've got the education sector here, and you've got the Welsh Government wanting to achieve something on the other side. If the two don't marry up, is the system…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
How do we get over those barriers, then? How do we solve the problem? Obviously, we talk about issues that have happened in the past, and that’s all we can discuss, obviously, but in terms of what solutions we find for the future, what do you think we can do…
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Right, okay. So, in terms of going back to the original question of what we’re trying to achieve here being a target of 2050, do you think that’s achievable within the parameters that we’re talking about in this session this morning?
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
So, why couldn’t Rhyl High School, for example, as an English-language school, benefit from the Welsh language provision that was just a few miles down the road, and that we could perhaps migrate those systems together?
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
I know, for example, that you were the previous head of Rhyl High School in my constituency. So, what stopped you from working with the likes of Ysgol Dewi Sant, the likes of Ysgol Glan Clwyd?
2 Hydref 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 6
Thank you very much, Chair. I think, for me to fully understand, obviously, the origins of the Bill, we've got to strip it right back to why the Bill was even coming into place from the Welsh Government. Obviously, we've got the target of a million Welsh…
1 Hydref 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad gan y Gweinidog Plant a Gofal Cymdeithasol: Pwysigrwydd y 1,000 diwrnod cyntaf mewn bywyd plentyn—O genhedlu i 2 oed
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1 Hydref 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Fe wnaeth y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig gefnogi'r gwaharddiad cychwynnol ar ysmygu y tu allan i ysbytai, ac rwy'n falch bod Llywodraeth Cymru bellach wedi cymryd gorfodi'r gwaharddiad hwn o ddifrif, gan fod llawer o bobl wedi parhau i anwybyddu'r gwaharddiad ers iddo…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you very much for those comprehensive responses and really interesting responses in that regard. I'm sure we can note those as a committee and represent those. I want to focus on the WESP now. It's been mentioned in a couple of the responses. I just…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 5
Thank you very much, Chair. Good afternoon, everybody. I want to focus on Part 4 of the Bill, if I may: the Welsh Government wants to establish a clear line of accountability at a national, local and school level for the planning of Welsh language education…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you. Finally, I just want to ask about transport, briefly, if I may. How important, in your view, is the provision and availability of transport to families when choosing nursery or school provision in Welsh? Are you surprised to see no mention of…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Diolch. With you mentioning the WESPs, I just wanted to push a bit more on that aspect. In the White Paper, a Welsh education implementation plan was proposed as an alternative to the WESP. Do you agree with the shift in purpose and approach of local…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 4
Thank you very much, Chair. I want to focus, in my time—however much time I've got—on Part 4 of the Bill. The Welsh Government wants to establish a clear line of accountability at a national, local and school level for the planning of Welsh language…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Thanks very much. And just finally: do you believe the Welsh Government has struck the right balance between the need for WESPs to be short enough to ensure sufficient accountability and giving local authorities flexibility to plan over a long enough period?…
26 Medi 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Enlli, any additional comments?
