Commentary on Sections Local plans Section 31 - Period of local Welsh in education strategic plans
134.This section sets out the period of time for which a strategic plan has effect. It is a 5 year plan but local authorities must set out the steps they intend to take in accordance with section 30(3) over a 10-year period. This is to enable local authorities to outline their long-term intentions, recognising that some changes to school provision can take a decade to come to fruition.
135.Welsh Ministers, through regulations, will determine by when a local authority must prepare its first plan. The intention is that all local authorities operate to the same timetable with the 5-year period commencing simultaneously for all local authorities.