1.These Explanatory Notes are for the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025 which was introduced into Senedd Cymru on 15 July 2024 and received Royal Assent on 7 July 2025. They have been prepared by the Welsh Government’s Education, Culture and Welsh Language Group in order to assist the reader of the Act. The Explanatory Notes should be read in conjunction with the Act but are not part of it. Where a provision of the Act does not seem to require any explanation or comment, none is given.
Introduction