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Wales’s Education Act: setting clear goals for the Welsh language
The government is now committed to promoting Welsh in schools — but we need some much bolder, concrete plans if we are to fight our national language’s decline, writes MABLI SIRIOL
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THE Welsh language belongs to everyone in Wales, whatever their background. However, at the moment, 80 per cent of young people in Wales are deprived of the language because of the failure of our education system to grow and normalise Welsh education.
It is clear that a major change is needed, and the results of the 2021 census, which showed a fall in the number of young people who can speak Welsh, underlines the urgency.
Following campaigning by Cymdeithas yr Iaith (the Welsh Language Society), the Welsh government has committed to introducing a new Welsh Education Act.
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