This month, the Welsh Government has published its response to the recommendations of the second phase report of the Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities, placing a strong emphasis on creating more opportunities to use Welsh in everyday life.

The Government has accepted all 31 of the Commission’s recommendations, either in full or in principle. These focus on strengthening Welsh in communities with medium and lower densities of Welsh speakers and will help shape the new strategy for the Welsh language.

The Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language, Anna Brychan, said: “Welsh is a language for the whole of Wales. It belongs to all of us, regardless of who we are, where we live or however much Welsh we speak.

“We want to take Welsh to people where they already are and make it part of the things they do every day, in local clubs and activities, on the playing field, through culture, at work and online.

“There is strong support for the Welsh language across Wales. By working across government and alongside our partners, our ambition is to turn that support into greater day-to-day use of Welsh, and to see the language heard and used more often in communities across Wales, while creating more opportunities to use it in areas with medium and lower densities of Welsh speakers at present,” she added.

Alongside work already underway following the first phase of the Commission’s work on communities with higher densities of Welsh speakers, the response will help shape the Welsh Government’s new strategy for the Welsh language and its wider work to increase opportunities to hear and use Welsh across Wales.

The Commission for Welsh-speaking Communities was established in 2022 to provide independent advice to the Welsh Government on the future of Welsh as a community language.