Celebrating the achievements of the Welsh Language Technology Action Plan (2018 – 2024)

By Indeg, Cymraeg 2050 Team

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When we published the Welsh Language Technology Action Plan in 2018, our aim was to create technological advances that would enable us to use more Welsh in a wide range of situations. The Minister for Education and Welsh Language has now published the final report on this Plan, which looks back at the progress we’ve made.

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Chief Statistician’s update: improvements introduced to labour market estimates for Wales

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In September 2023, we published a Chief Statistician’s blog providing advice about the challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the impact of such challenges on labour market statistics for Wales and what ONS plans were to address the challenges.

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Going, Going, Gone: The beginning of the end for paper prescriptions in Wales

By Ryan, Digital Health Policy

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On 17 November, the Minister for Health and Social Services announced that the first primary care prescriptions in Wales had been authorised via smartcard and sent digitally. This seems a straightforward and logical thing to do, so why the big fuss?

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Chief Statistician’s update: updated data on pupils eligible for free school meals published following additional validation exercise

Today we have published our final results from the School Census which was undertaken in January 2023. These final results include revised data on pupils eligible for free school meals. We explain in this blog why it has been necessary to undertake additional validation of this data and to revise the information previously published.

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Chief Statistician’s update: understanding the labour market in Wales

Last month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article discussing the current challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and what steps they are taking to address this. Today, we are discussing how these issues impact labour market statistics for Wales, and the approach we are taking to continue providing a robust and timely picture of the Welsh labour market.

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Chief Statistician’s update: disaggregating justice data for Wales

Today we provide an update on ongoing work to improve the public availability of justice data for Wales, including the development of interactive dashboards to bring together available data for Wales in one place. This morning, the first of these dashboards – the Youth Justice Interactive Dashboard – was published.

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Ukraine Independence Day

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24 August marks Ukraine’s National Day, also known as Independence Day.

Since the launch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wales has become a Nation of Sanctuary for thousands of people who have escaped the conflict. In this blog, we describe some of the work using digital tools in Wales to help Ukrainian people stay safe and supported.

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Chief Statistician’s update: Bringing together Fuel Poverty data for Wales

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Last month we told you about the work we’ve been doing to improve access to data on energy efficiency of homes, including the publication of a new dashboard using information on energy performance certificates. If you missed this, you can go back and read the blog post. Today, we’re expanding our work on energy and fuel further by publishing an interactive dashboard of fuel poverty data for homes in Wales.

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