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Campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith call truce with Carwyn Jones
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<a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/by-date/12-09-2014"> Sep 12, 2014 06:00</a>
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<h2 class="">Welsh language action 'pause' against Government in 'hope' over education and planning bill</h2>
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<span>Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg protest at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay earlier this year </span>
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<p>Campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith has announced a truce with the Welsh Government after months of protest.</p><p>For
months campaigners have called on the Government to adopt six basic
policy changes including Welsh-medium education for all, fair funding
for the language, and a new planning system to strengthen the language.</p><p>Members will now pause their direct action campaign following a language policy statement by the First Minister.</p><p>In
his statement, Carwyn Jones offered support in principle for the
group’s campaign for Welsh-medium education for all, and his commitment
to consider “every practical step to strengthen the Welsh language
within the planning system” has been welcomed.</p><p>The Welsh language has also been made one of the statutory welfare goals in the Government’s sustainability bill.</p><p>Robin Farrar, chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, said: “The First Minister has failed in his responsibility for the language.</p><p>“He should have a comprehensive strategy to strengthen the language in light of the Census held three years ago.</p><p>“We
have been heartened, however, that Carwyn Jones has given his personal
support for two of the six policies we have been pressing him to accept:
the principle that there should be a degree of Welsh-medium education
for all (by abolishing the derisive ‘second language Welsh’ concept),
and his intention to search for meaningful ways to include the Welsh
language in the Planning Bill.</p><p>“We have decided to take him at his
word. We expect him to direct the Donaldson review (of the education
curriculum) to accept the principle of Welsh-medium education for all,
and ensure that the state of the language and Welsh language communities
are central to the Planning Bill. We expect to see these developments
this year.”</p><p>The temporary truce follows a string of stunts by Cymdeithas members, aimed at First Minister Carwyn Jones.</p><p>Earlier this year supporters occupied Welsh Government buildings in Cardiff and held a sit-in protest and <a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-language-campaigners-convicted-over-7549667" target="_blank">last month two campaigners were fined for daubing graffiti on a government building in Aberystwyth</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/senedd-protest-welsh-language-campaigners-7271886" target="_blank">Protests have also taken place outside the Senedd</a> and at the National Eisteddfod.</p><p>The Welsh Government declined to comment.</p>
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