Support for Welsh on website from First Minister
26 November 2009
BETHAN Jenkins AM has secured support from the First Minister after a constituent complained to her about the absence of Welsh on Victim Support’s new website.
During questions to Rhodri Morgan on Tuesday in Plenary, Ms Jenkins said: ”The new Victim Support website purports to serve both Wales and England yet has nothing in Cymraeg. Would the First Minister join me in registering our disappointment in Victim Support, and urge them to rethink their language strategy?”
Mr Morgan said he sympathised with the case, but unfortunately as charities were not compelled by the Welsh Language Act to provide content in Welsh, the Welsh Government could only ask Victim Support to take the argument into account.
Ms Jenkins is now preparing to write to Mr Morgan, asking him to write in turn to Victim Support to ask it for a response.
