I've some sympathy with what the Member's saying as my own parents are Welsh speaking, as he knows, and I'm not Welsh speaking as they didn't teach it to me as a child and I've singularly failed to get any better at it than knowing my colours and numbers, I'm ashamed to say. So, I think there's a lot to be said for bringing up your children bilingually. Cymraeg for Kids provides advice and support for parents and prospective parents aimed at enabling families to use more Welsh. The programme's targeted at prospective parents and families with children aged 0 to four, and Mudiad Meithrin delivers local activities and support on behalf of the Welsh Government. These include story and song sessions, baby yoga and baby massage groups. These activities were expanded to all local authorities from April 2017, and the contract for delivery of the activities has been extended to March 2019, as we absolutely agree with the Member that the earlier the engagement with the Welsh language and the more frequent that engagement in the family, the more likely it is that the language will stick.

We've got a network of more than 400—I can't even say it in Welsh, I'm ashamed to say—cylchoedd Ti a Fi parent and toddler groups across Wales. These provide activities promoting the development of children from birth to school age and offer the opportunities for families to socialise in an informal Welsh atmosphere.

I'm going to add something else in there that I know from my digital portfolio myself, which is that I very much encourage everybody to get as much Welsh onto Wikipedia as possible and onto the web because what we find is that if youngsters can use it in their day-to-day activities as part of their socialisation then they tend to use Welsh much more frequently amongst their peer group outside of the school setting, and that also helps to cement the use of Welsh language in their lives. So, we've been trying to encourage that for some considerable period of time.

The additional £1 million to support the work in 2018-19 will enable them to make rapid progress to expand Welsh-medium early years provision and it will be used to undertake work specifically aimed at establishing new settings in areas with a current shortage of Welsh-medium childcare provision as well.