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I am announcing today that I have commissioned a Rapid Review of the National Centre for Learning Welsh (“the Centre”). The Centre was established in 2015 for a 7 year grant period, which ends on 31 July 2022\.


Since its establishment, the Centre has developed a National Curriculum and a strong resource base for Learn Welsh provision, provided a strategic and national direction to regional Learn Welsh providers, established a robust data collection system, and have increased the range of provision available to learners across Wales especially in response to the Covid pandemic. The Centre’s response to the pandemic has been particularly impressive with people being able to continue to learn Welsh seamlessly in spite of face to face learning coming to an end suddenly.


I have decided to undertake a Review to consider Learn Welsh provision from 1 August 2022 onwards. I have asked Steve Morris, the Chair of the Welsh Government Welsh for Adults Scrutiny Committee to lead the review, supported by a team of experts with varied expertise. They will begin this work immediately and report back to me by the end of July. I am very grateful to them for agreeing to undertake this work. They will consider and provide recommendations on the following matters:


* Consider whether the Centre's progress against the recommendations of "*Raising Our Sights*" (the report that led to its establishment) has been realised;
* consider whether the Centre's activities contribute to efforts to realise the relevant "Cymraeg 2050" targets;
* consider the Centre's response to Covid, and whether the developments resulting from it offer opportunities for long\-term changes to how the Centre operates or how Learn Welsh provision is delivered;
* consider the current activities and responsibilities of the Centre, and whether the expertise that has been gained and the resources that have been created since its inception offer opportunities to extend the Centre's activities to statutory education fields;
* consider if the Centre has given sufficient attention to developing Learn Welsh opportunities for new and specific audiences e.g. non\-Welsh speaking parents, and people of colour and ethnic minorities including refugees and asylum seekers,
* review the Centre’s data regarding the numbers that Learn Welsh, and approximate costs per person, consider what factors can be used to define value for money, and what outcomes are achieved by other language teaching methods, and the standards achieved,and
* recommend how Ministers can best secure provision after 31 July 2022 (i.e. by means of a grant model similar to the current arrangement or by adopting a different regime).


The full review team is as follows:


**Steve Morris – Report Writer**


Steve is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Swansea University. He has over 35 years experience as a teaching, assessment and curriculum practitioner in the Welsh language, joining the Department of Continuing Education in 1991 before transferring to the College of Arts and Humanities in 2010 as an Associate Professor of Welsh and Applied Linguistics. Steve was elected to the Executive Committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) in 2012 and is a co\-investigator and member of the management team for the ESRC/AHRC funded research project CorCenCC: the National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh.  Steve is also Chair of the Welsh Government Welsh for Adults Scrutiny Committee.  

 


**Advisory Board members**


**Prof Enlli Thomas**


Enlli Thomas is Associate Pro Vice\-Chancellor (Welsh language), Bangor University, and is a Professor of Education Research. Her main research interests and expertise span psycholinguistic approaches to the study of bilingual language acquisition.  Enlli is also a Member of the Government’s Welsh Language Partnership Council.  She will be able to add in\-depth knowledge of the education sector and educational resources to the Review.


**Prof Tess Fitzpatrick**


Tess Fitzpatrick is Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Language Research Centre at Swansea University. She returned to Swansea in 2017 after five years at Cardiff University’s Centre for Language and Communication Research. Her academic research on vocabulary processing, acquisition and testing is informed by her early career in language teaching.  Tess was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) between 2015 and 2018, and has been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences for her work in lexical studies and in wider understanding of cognitive processes in language learning and education. She will add expertise on second language acquisition and language learning contexts to the Review.


**Dr Gwenllian Landsdown Davies**


Gwenllian Lansdown Davies studied French and Spanish at Oxford and lived for a while in Galicia and Brussels before completing a MScEcon and PhD in Political Theory at Cardiff University where she also taught as a politics tutor. In 2011, she was appointed as a Publications Officer for the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol at Aberystwyth University where she was also responsible for its research journal, ‘Gwerddon’. She became Chief Executive of Mudiad Meithrin in September 2014\. Mudiad Meithrin is a voluntary organisation and is the main provider and enabler of Welsh\-medium early years care and education in the voluntary sector with over 1000 settings. Gwenllian will be able to add expertise on early years and the use of Welsh within homes and families to the Review.


**Rhian Huws Williams**


Rhian has operated at the highest level of Public Services in Wales for over 30 years, most recently as Chief Executive of the Care Council for Wales. Her experience includes agency development and change management, governance, policy advice, strategic development and leadership. She has been persuaded by experience of the need for courageous leadership, the importance of partnership working, and the value of a culture that encourages continuous learning and development at an organisational and personal level. She has been a member of several Ministerial Groups and public service leadership groups in Wales. Since retiring he has focused on two areas: the Welsh Language, and education and skills. Rhian is a member of the Minister's Partnership Council on the Welsh Language; and a trustee of several local and national bodies that support an increase in the use of Welsh.







Translation:


 
Rwy'n cyhoeddi heddiw fy mod wedi comisiynu Adolygiad Cyflym o'r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol ("y Ganolfan"). Sefydlwyd y Ganolfan yn 2015 am gyfnod grant o 7 mlynedd, sy'n dod i ben ar 31 Gorffennaf 2022\.


Ers ei sefydlu, mae'r Ganolfan wedi datblygu Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol a sylfaen adnoddau cryf ar gyfer darpariaeth Dysgu Cymraeg, wedi darparu cyfeiriad strategol a chenedlaethol i ddarparwyr Dysgu Cymraeg rhanbarthol, wedi sefydlu system casglu data cadarn, ac wedi cynyddu'r ystod o ddarpariaeth sydd ar gael i ddysgwyr ledled Cymru, yn enwedig mewn ymateb i’r pandemig. Mae ymateb y Ganolfan i'r pandemig wedi bod yn arbennig o drawiadol gyda phobl yn gallu parhau i ddysgu Cymraeg yn ddi\-dor er gwaethaf dysgu wyneb yn wyneb yn dod i ben yn sydyn.


Rwyf wedi penderfynu cynnal Adolygiad i ystyried darpariaeth Dysgu Cymraeg o 1 Awst 2022 ymlaen. Rwyf wedi gofyn i Steve Morris, Cadeirydd Pwyllgor Craffu Cymraeg i Oedolion Llywodraeth Cymru arwain yr adolygiad, gyda chefnogaeth tîm o arbenigwyr sydd ag arbenigedd amrywiol. Byddant yn dechrau'r gwaith hwn ar unwaith ac yn adrodd yn ôl i mi erbyn diwedd mis Gorffennaf. Rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn iddynt am gytuno i ymgymryd â'r gwaith hwn. Byddant yn ystyried ac yn darparu argymhellion ar y materion canlynol:


* Ystyried a yw cynnydd y Ganolfan yn erbyn argymhellion “*Codi Golygon*” (yr adroddiad a arweiniodd at ei sefydlu) wedi cael ei wireddu;
* ystyried a yw gweithgareddau'r Ganolfan yn cyfrannu ar ymdrechion i wireddu targedau perthnasol “Cymraeg 2050”;
* ystyried ymateb y Ganolfan i Covid, ac a yw’r datblygiadau yn sgil hynny yn cynnig cyfleoedd am newidiadau hirdymor i sut mae’r Ganolfan yn gweithredu neu sut mae darpariaeth Dysgu Cymraeg yn cael ei ddarparu;
* ystyried gweithgareddau a chyfrifoldebau presennol y Ganolfan, ac os yw’r arbenigedd sydd wedi’i feithrin a’r adnoddau sydd wedi’u creu ers ei sefydlu yn cynnig cyfleoedd i ymestyn gweithgareddau’r Ganolfan i feysydd addysg statudol
* ystyried os yw’r Ganolfan wedi rhoi sylw priodol i ddatblygu cyfleoedd Dysgu Cymraeg i gynulleidfaoedd newydd a phenodol e.e. rhieni di\-Gymraeg, pobl o liw a lleiafrifoedd ethnig gan gynnwys ffoaduriaid a cheiswyr lloches;
* adolygu data’r Ganolfan o ran y niferoedd sy’n Dysgu Cymraeg, a chostau bras fesul person, ac ystyried pa ffactorau y gellid eu defnyddio i ddiffinio gwerth am arian, a pha ddeiliannau sy’n cael eu cyflawni gan ddulliau dysgu eraill, a’r safonau sy’n cael eu cyrraedd ganddynt, ac
* argymell sut sydd orau i Weinidogion sicrhau darpariaeth ar ôl 31 Gorffennaf 2022 (h.y. model grant yn debyg i’r trefniant presennol neu fabwysiadu trefn arall).


Dyma’r tîm llawn fydd yn ymgymryd â’r gwaith:


**Steve Morris – Awdur yr Adroddiad** 


Mae Steve yn Gymrawd Ymchwil er Anrhydedd yn yr Adran Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe. Mae ganddo dros 35 mlynedd o brofiad fel ymarferwr addysgu, asesu a chwricwlwm yn yr iaith Gymraeg, gan ymuno â’r Adran Addysg Barhaus yn 1991 cyn trosglwyddo i Goleg y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau yn 2010 fel Athro Cysylltiol mewn Cymraeg ac Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol. Etholwyd Steve i Bwyllgor Gwaith Cymdeithas Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol Prydain (BAAL) yn 2012 ac mae’n gyd\-ymchwilydd ac yn aelod o dîm rheoli prosiect ymchwil CorCenCC: Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes a ariennir gan ESRC/AHRC. Mae Steve hefyd yn Gadeirydd Pwyllgor Craffu Cymraeg i Oedolion Llywodraeth Cymru.


**Aelodau’r Bwrdd Cynghori**


**Yr Athro Enlli Thomas**


Mae Enlli yn Ddirprwy Is\-Ganghellor Cynorthwyol (y Gymraeg), Prifysgol Bangor, ac yn Athro mewn Ymchwil Addysg. Mae ei phrif ddiddordebau ymchwil a'i harbenigedd yn cynnwys dulliau seicoieithyddol o astudio caffael iaith ddwyieithog.  Mae Enlli hefyd yn Aelod o Gyngor Partneriaeth y Gymraeg Llywodraeth Cymru.  Bydd Enlli’n ychwanegu gwybodaeth fanwl am y sector addysg ac adnoddau addysgol i'r Adolygiad.


**Yr Athro Tess Fitzpatrick**


Tess Fitzpatrick yw Pennaeth yr Adran Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol a Chyfarwyddwr y Ganolfan Ymchwil Iaith ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe. Fe ddychwelodd i Brifysgol Abertawe yn 2017 ar ôl pum mlynedd yng Nghanolfan Ymchwil Iaith a Chyfathrebu Prifysgol Caerdydd. Mae ei hymchwil academaidd ar brosesu, caffael a phrofi geirfa yn cael ei lywio gan ei gyrfa gynnar mewn addysgu iaith. Roedd Tess yn Gadeirydd Cymdeithas Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol Prydain (BAAL) rhwng 2015 a 2018, ac mae wedi ennill Cymrodoriaeth Academi'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol am ei gwaith mewn astudiaethau geiriadurol ac mewn dealltwriaeth ehangach o brosesau gwybyddol mewn dysgu iaith ac addysg. Bydd hi’n ychwanegu arbenigedd ar gaffael a phrofi geirfa ail iaith i’r Arolwg.


**Dr Gwenllian Landsdown Davies**


Astudiodd Gwenllian Lansdown Davies Ffrangeg a Sbaeneg yn Rhydychen a byw am gyfnod yn Galisia a Brwsel cyn cwblhau gradd MScEcon a Doethuriaeth mewn Athroniaeth Wleidyddol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd ble bu hefyd yn diwtor gwleidyddiaeth. Yn 2011, fe’i penodwyd i’r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth fel Swyddog Cyhoeddiadau a Chynorthwyydd Golygyddol y cyfnodolyn ymchwil ‘Gwerddon’. Cychwynnodd ar ei swydd fel Prif Weithredwr Mudiad Meithrin ym mis Medi 2014\. Y Mudiad yw’r darparwr a’r hwylusydd mwyaf o ofal ac addysg blynyddoedd cynnar cyfrwng Cymraeg yn y sector gwirfoddol yng Nghymru gyda dros fil o leoliadau ledled y wlad. Bydd Gwenllian yn ychwanegu arbenigedd ar flynyddoedd cynnar, a’r defnydd o’r Gymraeg o fewn teuluoedd a chartrefi i’r Arolwg.


**Rhian Huws Williams**


Mae Rhian wedi gweithredu ar lefel uchaf Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru am dros 30 mlynedd, yn fwyaf diweddar fel Prif Weithredwr Cyngor Gofal Cymru. Mae ei phrofiad yn cynnwys datblygiad asiantaethol a rheoli newid, llywodraethiant, cyngor polisi, datblygu strategaethau ac arweinyddiaeth. Mae wedi ei pherswadio yn sgil profiad o’r angen am arweinyddiaeth ddewr, pwysigrwydd gweithio mewn partneriaeth a gwerth diwylliant sy’n annog dysgu a datblygiad parhaus ar lefel corff ac ar lefel personol. Mae wedi bod yn aelod o sawl Tasglu Gweinidogol a grwpiau arweinyddiaeth gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yng Nghymru. Ers ymddeol mae wedi canolbwyntio ar ddau faes: Yr Iaith Gymraeg, ac addysg a sgiliau. Mae’n aelod o Gyngor Partneriaeth y Gweinidog ar yr Iaith Gymraeg; ac yn ymddiriedolwr lleol a chenedlaethol i sawl corff sy’n cefnogi cynnydd yn y defnydd o’r Gymraeg.