Fall in Welsh-capable teachers risks missing language target, report warns

Language decline among newly qualified teachers could undermine goal of reaching 1 million Welsh speakers

A striking" decline in the number of newly qualified teachers able to teach in Welsh could undermine the country's ambition to have a million speakers of the language in 30 years' time, a report warns.

The Welsh language commissioner, Aled Roberts, expressed concern about the trend and called for the devolved government to take urgent action to reverse the fall.