Issue - meetings

Welsh Language Standards Annual Monitoring Report 2023/24

Additional documents:

Decision:

As detailed in the recommendation.

Minutes:

Councillor Eastwood introduced the report and explained that Flintshire County Council was required to adhere to Welsh Language Standards, as set out in a Compliance Notice that was served on the Council in 2015.

The Welsh Language Standards Compliance Notice for Flintshire County Council placed a statutory duty on the Council to publish an annual report that set out how it had met the Welsh Language Standards.

The purpose of the report was to present the Welsh Language Standards Annual Monitoring Report 2023/24, providing an overview of the Council’s progress in complying with the Welsh Language Standards and identifying areas for further

progress and improvement.

The Corporate Manager, Capital Programme and Assets provided information on increased initiatives; recruitment of Welsh speakers; areas for further improvement; and complaints.

During the next 12 months, the Council aimed to:

Develop a Welsh Language Skills Strategy to increase the number of

employees using Welsh to be able to deliver bilingual services.

Reduce the number of employees who reported that they did not have

any Welsh language skills.

Continue completing self-assessments against the Welsh language

standards to ensure services continue to comply.

There would be an area on the internal website for Members and officers to be signposted to what was available to support them, such as common phrases. In addition, a report would be presented to a future meeting of Cabinet on the cost for providing translation services at meetings.

RESOLVED:

That the Welsh Language Standards Annual Monitoring Report for 2023/24 be approved and published on the Council’s website.

Issue - meetings

Welsh Language Standards Annual Monitoring Report 2023/24

Meeting: 18/06/2024 - Cabinet (Item 9)