Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025

8 Overview and interpretation

(1) This Part—

(a) makes provision about designating a language category to each school (see sections 9 to 13), and, accordingly, about—

(i) the amount of Welsh language education to be provided in the school, and

(ii) the school’s Welsh language learning goal;

(b) requires each school to have a Welsh language education delivery plan (see sections 14 to 19) that sets out (among other things) how the school intends to meet its Welsh language learning goal;

(c) requires each local authority to maintain and publish a register of the language category of each school in its area (see section 22);

(d) requires each local authority to promote late immersion education in Welsh (see section 23).

(2) For the purposes of this Part—

(a) “Welsh language education” means—

(i) teaching Welsh, and

(ii) education and training through the medium of Welsh,

in a school, during school sessions, to pupils of compulsory school age;

(b) “Welsh language nursery education” means—

(i) teaching Welsh, and

(ii) education through the medium of Welsh

in a school or maintained nursery school, during school sessions, to pupils under compulsory school age;

(c) references to a “school” mean a maintained school that has pupils of compulsory school age.