Welsh-speaking Early Years Practitioners

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 3:01 pm on 8 January 2020.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 3:01, 8 January 2020

So, we do have to be aware that we are very keen to reach this target, but to make that work we have to make sure that we have the right number of people in place who can actually teach. So, that's why we have 350 practitioners who will benefit from this Camau programme. What that is is free access to Welsh language training by childcare and play practitioners. The fact is that we now have this childcare offer and about 30 per cent of that childcare offer is through the medium of Welsh. So, that is really important, that people understand that there's an opportunity there. We've also got Mudiad Meithrin. They run a programme called Croesi'r Bont and this is an immersion system to make sure that people have the skills in childcare development. There's a level 3 diploma that has been developed with Mudiad Meithrin, so people are going through that system. And then, on top of that, our officials are working with the Urdd, and they've got a lot of experience of apprentices and so we're trying to get them to take on more apprentices through the medium of Welsh to look specifically at childcare.