New targets could see more children being taught through the medium of Welsh in Denbighshire.

Councillors sitting on the county’s cabinet will discuss a report setting out the targets for how the county will grow the number of children who can speak Welsh in the county.

The report which is expected to be approved by the cabinet sets out targets including the numbers of children in Welsh medium education and the number of staff who can work though the language.

It said: “We wish to see every child and young person in Denbighshire leaving fulltime education being competent and confident in Welsh and English.”

The plan wants to  increase communication skills for all young school children and increase the proportion and standard of Welsh taught in English-medium schools.

It would also raise the proportion of learners who study Welsh as a first language. The council’s approach to Welsh medium education has been praised by inspectors.

An Estyn report on the council’s approach to Welsh medium education said: “The authority’s 2017-2020 Welsh in Education Strategic Plan demonstrates a strong commitment to developing services through the medium of Welsh.

“The authority’s plans for increasing the percentage of learners in Welsh-medium provision are suitably ambitious, as are the targets to increase the percentage of subjects taught through the medium of Welsh in schools that currently teach less than 50%.

“There are sufficient places in all phases for learners who choose Welsh-medium education.”

The council wants to see an increase in the number of seven year olds in Welsh education to go from 26.98% to 28.2% in 2019/20.

Parents who have children due to start school in the next few years will get more information about the options when it come to how Welsh medium education could work for them.

The council will also try to increase the number of spaces for people so people can take advantage of bilingual schooling.

The plan would see an increase in the proportion of teaching through the medium of Welsh in the foundation phase to over 50% by 2020 in schools that already where at least a fifth of teaching taking place in the language.