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Aims:

1. Language transmission in the family: provide our children with
the best start in the language by expanding support for families to transmit
the language in the home.

2. The early years: expand Welsh-medium provision in the early years as an access
point for Welsh-medium education.

3. Statutory education: create a statutory education system which increases
the number of confident Welsh speakers.
4. Post-compulsory education: develop post-compulsory education provision
which increases rates of progression and supports everyone, whatever their command
of the language, to develop Welsh language skills for use socially and in the
workplace.

5. The education workforce, resources and qualifications: plan
in order to increase and improve substantially:
– the education and training workforce which can teach Welsh and teach through the
medium of Welsh
– the resources and qualifications needed to support increased provision.

To achieve our target of a million Welsh speakers, we will drive the following transformational
changes. Successful implementation will be dependent on a number of organisations working
together.

• Make rapid progress to expand Welsh-medium early years provision
by 150 nursery groups over the next decade to facilitate
a seamless transition into Welsh-medium education.

• Increase the proportion of each school year group receiving
Welsh-medium education from 22 per cent (based on 7,700
seven-year-old learners in 2015/16) to 30 per cent (about 10,500 in
each year group) by 2031, and then 40 per cent (about 14,000 in each
year group) by 2050.
• Transform how we teach Welsh to all learners in order that by 2050
at least 70 per cent of those learners report that they can speak
Welsh by the time they leave school.
• Increase the number of primary teachers who can teach in Welsh from 2,900 to
3,900 by 2031 and 5,200 by 2050; increase the number of secondary teachers who
can teach Welsh from 500 to 900 by 2031 and 1,200 by 2050; and increase the
number of secondary teachers who can teach through the medium of Welsh from
1,800 to 3,200 by 2031 and 4,200 by 2050.
• Reform the post-16 Welsh-medium and bilingual education and skills offer to
ensure that young people have the opportunity to continue developing bilingual
skills to support a prosperous economy.

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