Key actions

Widening access to our culture, heritage and sport, and encouraging greater participation:

• Introduce the Heritage Bill with supporting policy activity and public engagement.
• Through the Arts Council of Wales, develop a vibrant and high quality arts sector accessible to all communities in Wales.
• Through Sport Wales, widen participation in sport and programmes targeted at increasing physical activity.
• Increase the number of sports coaches and elite athletes in Wales.
• Work with national, UK and international sports federations to ensure that more major sporting events are hosted in Wales in the future.
• Work with Cardiff County Council to look at the feasibility of bidding to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
• Extend our free swimming scheme to veterans and serving armed forces personnel on leave.
• Implement Cadw’s Heritage Tourism Project.
• Deliver Cadw’s pan-Wales Interpretation Plan, Lifelong Learning Strategy and Heritage & Arts Framework.
• Deliver Cadw’s conservation programme for monuments in state care, alongside the designation of further heritage assets.
• Further develop St Fagans as a significant cultural attraction and visitor gateway to Wales.
• Maintain free admission to Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum Wales) and National Library of Wales in order to maximise their impact.
• Strengthen regional collaboration in the delivery of library, museum and archive services and ensure that local authorities meet national standards of public library provision.
• Develop the potential of digital media to promote culture through Casgliad y Werin (People’s Collection Wales) and other on-line initiatives.
• Press for S4C’s new partnership with the BBC to retain editorial and operational independence for the channel.
• Work to maintain, and wherever possible strengthen, BBC and ITV services aimed at Welsh viewers.
• Continue to press for plurality to be maintained in television news directed at Welsh audiences.
• Strengthen creative industries in Wales and increase the number of Welsh productions on the main television networks.

Strengthen the place of the Welsh language in everyday life:

• Publish a five-year Welsh Language Strategy and Action Plan.
• Deliver the provisions of the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011.
• Increase the number of people speaking and using Welsh in our education system, and encourage the informal use of Welsh by young people outside the classroom.
• Ensure that students can continue to study through the medium of Welsh outside the school environment through post-16 provision.
• Expand the opportunities for people to use Welsh across public services.