Culture Committee (November 2000 - April 2003)
Culture Committee's Review of the Welsh Language Scheme
The National Assembly's Culture Committee is currently undertaking a policy review of the Welsh language. The review began in May and is scheduled to be completed by Easter 2002. The review involves both written consultation and evidence gathering sessions within the committee and various roadshows and visits throughout Wales.
Secretariat
NAfW-Committees-First Assembly-Culture-Welsh Language Review
| Clerk |
Julia Annand |
| Deputy Clerk |
Vacant |
| Support staff |
Eirian Dyer |
The Culture Committee has appointed Mr Euryn Ogwen Williams as an expert adviser to support Committee Members and the Committee Clerk in their deliberations and in the production of a consultation paper and final report.
Terms of Reference
The Review's Terms of Reference are as follows:
To seek to define more closely the National Assembly’s established objective of 'creating a bilingual Wales’. The Committee will aim to suggest a concrete strategy of actions for achieving that objective.
The review will pay particular attention to the following themes:
- enabling people to use either language or both in all aspects of national life and in their communities;
- supporting Welsh as a family and community language;
- roviding opportunities for people to learn Welsh, and to use it;
- promoting equal respect for both Welsh and English, and maintaining national consensus and goodwill about bilingualism.
The Committee will examine the work of the Welsh Language Board, and it will also examine the role and contribution of a range of other organisations. These will include agencies involved in economic development, tackling social exclusion, improving learning, and improving the quality of life.
Changes that created the Education Committee and the Culture Committee as separate entities have resulted in the main review being undertaken by the Culture Committee and the review of the Welsh language in formal education (Schools, FE and HE) being conducted separately by the Education Committee and to begin later in the year. However, non-statutory education, such as nursery provision and adult education, does fall under the remit of this review.
