, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Is it fixable, or—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Oh, right. Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Sorry. Is it coming through, the translation? It's not, is it?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
How much of a problem in general is the retention of teachers and teaching assistants? You've mentioned already the problem of recruitment, but I'm talking—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Diolch yn fawr iawn. I'm going to be asking my first couple of questions in Welsh, so I don't know whether you've got the simultaneous translation working there. The first question is this.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
You note in your evidence that you are not happy with the words that are used in terms of progression, namely 'it is assumed'. Are you suggesting that we should strengthen that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
This is my final question. You and one another organisation—I can't remember who at the moment—have mentioned the importance of linguistic progression and that there is a lack of this in some areas of Wales. Can you explain to us what your concerns are about…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Yes, you have. What's behind the question, of course, is the fact that I know a number of schools in west Wales, for example, that sell themselves as bilingual schools, but the children don't leave those schools bilingual. So, there is a means, in that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you. Can I go back to one question that Tom asked and address it from a different angle? A lot of your evidence notes your concerns regarding this description of Welsh language education and that that is different to Welsh-medium education, which is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you very much. I'll come back later with more questions.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
—ac yn pryderu, efallai, nad ydyn ni ddim cweit yn y man y dylem ni fod o ran niferoedd yr athrawon a chynorthwywyr dosbarth, ac yn y blaen. Ydych chi'n credu y dylai hynny cael ei gryfhau yn y Bil ac y dylem ni fod yn gosod targed, efallai, o ran cynyddu'r…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you. In your evidence, you have noted the importance of developing a bilingual workforce—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you very much for the evidence that we've received as a committee—extremely useful evidence. A number of questions that I will want to ask will be asked by other people later on, but just on the point of the Bill making…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Okay, thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Okay. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Okay. And the final question: the late-immersion education centres have been a normal provision in many counties, particularly in west and north Wales, to integrate those people who have moved into the area and provide a second opportunity to children who…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Okay, if I could move on to a different issue, the Bill currently provides an opportunity for primarily English language schools to apply for an exemption from the requirement to provide 10 per cent for two periods. Do you think that is fair?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
What are your thoughts about setting a target in the Bill, if I can ask that specific question?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Anything to add?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Right. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you. You have mentioned a few times the challenge in terms of developing a sufficient and adequate bilingual workforce, and have suggested, perhaps, that the success of this Bill depends to a great degree on having that bilingual workforce in place. Do…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Just one more question, if I may. You mentioned the possible tensions that could arise as a result of implementing this Bill, and I can understand that, to an extent. But do you think, therefore, that the essence of this Bill in terms of ensuring that every…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
—thank you for now.
