Earlier in the year the Welsh Language Commissioner announced that a more proactive approach to 'co-regulation' would be taken. In making that announcement, we also set out our intention to develop and set clear regulatory outcomes during 2024.
Consistent with our commitment to implementing a co-regulatory approach, we are engaging with stakeholders to seek their views and perspectives on those regulatory outcomes. The proposed regulatory outcomes are below.
Outcome 1: Organisations with the capacity to provide high quality Welsh language services at all times.
Outcome 2: Welsh language users understand and are aware of the Welsh language services available to them.
Outcome 3: Organisations give due regard to the potential impacts of their policy decisions on the Welsh language.
Outcome 4: Organisations increase the use of Welsh in their workplace, enabling staff to work in Welsh on a day-to-day basis.
Outcome 5: Organisations promote the Welsh language so that people can use the language naturally in their daily lives.
Outcome 6: Organisations protect and promote the interests of Welsh language users by having effective governance and complaints arrangements.
Our intention by introducing these regulatory outcomes here is for them to, amongst other things:
- set the Welsh language Standards and our regulatory work in the context of the national vision of increasing the number of Welsh speakers and increasing the use of the language
- provide public transparent statements of what we intend to achieve, and how we will be able to demonstrate when we have achieved it
- ensuring that our regulatory activities are outcome-focused for Welsh language users and have the greatest impact on opportunities to use Welsh
- encourage organisations to strike the right balance between a focus on strict compliance and achieving good outcomes for Welsh language users.
The engagement period on the proposed regulatory outcomes ended on 24 June.