Welsh-medium Education in South Wales East

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 10 November 2021.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 2:58, 10 November 2021

(Translated)

Well, not all teachers need to be able to teach through the medium of Welsh. I have just had a conversation with Cefin Campbell about the need to recruit more Welsh-medium teachers. But we also need to provide support, as we are doing through the work of the national learning centre, for adults to be able to learn Welsh in order to extend the use of Welsh in our communities more generally. So, there are a variety of interventions of that kind that are available.

We also need to ensure that we support, as part of the strategy that I mentioned earlier, not only the question of recruitment, but also Welsh learners, and support school leaders to plan more strategically, perhaps, and have the skills and support to do that in order to provide Welsh-medium education more broadly within our schools.