Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025

34 Review and amendment of local Welsh in education strategic plans

(1) A local authority must keep its local Welsh in education strategic plan under review, and if it considers it appropriate, amend it.

(2) Subsection (3) applies if the Welsh Ministers consider—

(a) that a local authority is unlikely to meet a target that applies to it in the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh, and

(b) that the local authority’s local Welsh in education strategic plan needs to be amended accordingly.

(3) Where this subsection applies, the Welsh Ministers may give a direction to a local authority—

(a) setting out that they consider that the local authority is unlikely to meet a target that applies to it in the National Framework for Welsh Language Education and Learning Welsh;

(b) requiring it to consider amending its local Welsh in education strategic plan.

(4) Where a local authority receives a direction under subsection (3) but decides not to amend its local Welsh in education strategic plan, the local authority must give reasons to the Welsh Ministers for not doing so.

(5) Where a local authority decides to amend its local Welsh in education strategic plan under subsection (1) or in response to a direction under subsection (3), it must submit an amended plan to the Welsh Ministers in draft form.

(6) Sections 30 to 33 and the remainder of this section apply to the amended plan as they apply to the original plan.