9. 7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh-medium Education

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:33 pm on 9 November 2016.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 6:33, 9 November 2016

Diolch. The weight of the discussions around increasing the provision of Welsh-medium education—. We know that only around 16 per cent of children are educated through the medium of Welsh, which means that the majority, the overwhelming majority, of schoolchildren in Wales get taught Welsh at some level as a second language. Now, there’s a lot of evidence to show the quality of that in English-medium schools in Wales is poor or patchy, and yet we don’t talk in these debates about how we increase the level of Welsh teaching in English-medium schools. So, what can we do to address that generation of children who are getting very poor provision at the minute?