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Cairngorms National Park Authority - Gaelic Language Plan 2018-22

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY ÙGH­DAR­RAS PÀIRC NÀISEANTA A’ MHON­AIDH RUAIDH

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This doc­u­ment is avail­able in large print, and oth­er formats, on request. Please con­tact the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity on 01479 873535. It is also avail­able to view at www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk

© CNPA 2018. All rights reserved. ISBN 9781906071899

Photo cred­its: CNPA; Angus Find­lay; VisitScotland/​Jakub Iwanicki

Con­tents page Fore­word 4 Intro­duc­tion 5 Back­ground inform­a­tion about the 5 Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Sum­mary of Gael­ic in Scot­land 6 Gael­ic with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al 6 Park Authority’s area of oper­a­tion Intern­al Gael­ic capa­city audit 8 The Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan in the 10 Cor­por­ate Struc­ture Plan­ning and Policy Implic­a­tions for 11 Gael­ic Main­stream­ing Gael­ic into the CNPA 11 The Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 11 Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment nation­al pri­or­it­ies 16 Loc­al Gov­ern­ment pri­or­it­ies 17 Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship 17 Plan pri­or­it­ies Plan Com­mit­ments 18 High level com­mit­ments 18 Ser­vice stand­ard com­mit­ments 18 Imple­ment­a­tion and Mon­it­or­ing 19 Timetable 19 Pub­lish­ing the Plan 19 Pub­li­cising the Plan 19 Resourcing the Plan 19 Mon­it­or­ing the Plan 19 Con­tact details 20 Appendix I High Level Com­mit­ments 21 Appendix 2 Ser­vice Stand­ard 29 Com­mit­ments Appendix 3 Cairngorms Nation­al Park 31 Author­ity Intern­al Gael­ic Capa­city Audit

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 Fore­word The Gael­ic lan­guage was his­tor­ic­ally very widely spoken in the Cairngorms, and is still spoken in the region today. The lan­guage is also highly vis­ible in the area, with a very large num­ber of Gael­ic place names present. Vis­it­ors, espe­cially those with Scot­tish ances­try, are keen to exper­i­ence Gael­ic while in Scot­land, and the Cairngorms provide an excel­lent oppor­tun­ity for people to do so through our cul­ture and land­scapes. Cairngorms Nation­al Park res­id­ents also embrace the Gael­ic lan­guage. Today, three per cent of the Park pop­u­la­tion have some Gael­ic lan­guage abil­ity – twice the nation­al aver­age. The Gael­ic dia­lects of Strath­spey and Badenoch are in reg­u­lar use with four loc­a­tions provid­ing Gael­ic medi­um edu­ca­tion and the loc­al com­munit­ies are rich in Gael­ic music, shinty and her­it­age interpretation.

Gael­ic plays a valu­able role in deliv­er­ing the Nation­al Park’s long term out­comes: • • • Con­ser­va­tion: a spe­cial place for people and nature with nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age enhanced; Vis­it­or exper­i­ence: people enjoy­ing the Park through out­stand­ing vis­it­or and learn­ing exper­i­ences; Rur­al devel­op­ment: a sus­tain­able eco­nomy sup­port­ing thriv­ing busi­nesses and communities.

I am delighted that our second Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022, cre­ated under the Gael­ic Lan­guage (Scot­land) Act, sets out the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s com­mit­ment and con­tri­bu­tion to its development.

Peter Argyle Con­vener Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity board

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk Intro­duc­tion Back­ground inform­a­tion about the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity The Cairngorms Nation­al Park was estab­lished in March 2003 and the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) became fully oper­a­tion­al – tak­ing on all its stat­utory powers on I Septem­ber 2003.We are designed to be an enabling organ­isa­tion, pro­mot­ing part­ner­ship work­ing and giv­ing lead­er­ship to all those involved in man­aging the Park. We do not duplic­ate the work of oth­er organ­isa­tions, such as the enter­prise agen­cies or Scot­tish Nat­ur­al Her­it­age, but ensure there is a joined-up approach to pro­jects and ini­ti­at­ives that help to meet the four aims of the Park, which are: • • • • to con­serve and enhance the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age of the area; to pro­mote sus­tain­able use of the nat­ur­al resources of the area; to pro­mote under­stand­ing and enjoy­ment (includ­ing enjoy­ment in the form of recre­ation) of the spe­cial qual­it­ies of the area by the pub­lic; to pro­mote sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic and social devel­op­ment of the area’s communities.

Our stat­utory duties are plan­ning and devel­op­ment, out­door access and the pro­duc­tion of a Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan and a Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

Oth­er areas of work such as eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, ranger ser­vices, vis­it­or inform­a­tion centres, path sig­nage and inter­pret­a­tion are delivered through part­ner­ship work­ing. For example, we do not employ rangers, but instead fund ranger ser­vices in the Park and work with them.

In edu­ca­tion, we sup­port five Loc­al Author­it­ies (Aber­deen­shire, Angus, High­land, Moray and Perth & Kinross) and Edu­ca­tion Scot­land to devel­op pro­jects that will help them deliv­er the Cur­riculum for Excel­lence and con­tin­ued pro­fes­sion­al development.

We also make clear com­mit­ments about what we (the CNPA) will deliv­er as a cor­por­ate organ­isa­tion in terms of the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan, and will work and agree with part­ners Gael­ic deliv­er­ables for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park.

The CNPA has around 70 staff plus 19 board mem­bers. We are fun­ded by the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment and Scot­tish Min­is­ters appoint sev­en of our board mem­bers. Anoth­er sev­en board mem­bers are nom­in­ated to the board by the five coun­cils in the Park — Aber­deen­shire (2), Angus (1), High­land (2), Moray (1) and Perth & Kinross (1) – and five are elec­ted loc­ally. Through our board, we are respons­ible to the Min­is­ter and so to the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment. The CNPA has offices in Grant­own-on-Spey and Ballater.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 Sum­mary of Gael­ic in Scot­land The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) recog­nises that Gael­ic is an integ­ral part of Scot­land and the Park’s her­it­age, iden­tity and cul­tur­al life. We are com­mit­ted to the object­ives set out in the Nation­al Plan for Gael­ic and have put in place the neces­sary struc­tures and ini­ti­at­ives to ensure that Gael­ic has a sus­tain­able future in Scot­land and the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. We recog­nise that the pos­i­tion of Gael­ic is extremely fra­gile and if Gael­ic is to be revital­ised as a liv­ing lan­guage in Scot­land, a con­cer­ted effort on the part of gov­ern­ment, the pub­lic and private sec­tors, com­munity organ­isa­tions and indi­vidu­al speak­ers is required to: • • • enhance the status of Gael­ic pro­mote the acquis­i­tion and learn­ing of Gael­ic encour­age the increased use of Gaelic

This doc­u­ment is the CNPA’s Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan pre­pared with­in the frame­work of the Gael­ic Lan­guage (Scot­land) Act 2005. It sets out how we will use Gael­ic in the oper­a­tion of our func­tions, how we will enable the use of Gael­ic when com­mu­nic­at­ing with the pub­lic and key part­ners, and how we will pro­mote and devel­op Gael­ic. It has been pre­pared in accord­ance with stat­utory cri­ter­ia set out in the 2005 Act, and hav­ing regard to the Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 – 2023 and the Guid­ance on the Devel­op­ment of Gael­ic Lan­guage Plans.

Gael­ic with­in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s area of oper­a­tion The Cairngorms Nation­al Park is the largest Nation­al Park in the UK at 4,528sq km, has a pop­u­la­tion of over 18,000 res­id­ents, and cov­ers five loc­al author­ity areas: • • • • • Aber­deen­shire Angus High­land Moray Perth & Kinross

The Cairngorms Nation­al Park has a rich his­tory and cul­ture of lan­guages. Gael­ic became the dom­in­ant lan­guage of the Cairngorms area over 1,000 years ago (super­sed­ing the Pic­tish lan­guage and cul­ture) and because of this the major­ity of the cur­rent place-names with­in the Park are Gael­ic in ori­gin. How­ever, by the 18th and 19th cen­tur­ies many people in the Cairngorms area were bilin­gual, speak­ing Scots as well as Gael­ic. On the east side of the Park, the loc­al dia­lect of Dor­ic is widely spoken in the com­munity and adds to the cul­ture and his­tory of the area.

Accord­ing to the 2011 census, 657 people aged three or more liv­ing in the Park (3.6 per cent of the Park’s pop­u­la­tion and 0.8 per cent of Scotland’s total Gael­ic pop­u­la­tion) can speak, read and/​or under­stand Gael­ic; 146 said they used Gael­ic in the home (0.8% of the Park’s pop­u­la­tion and just under a quarter of Gael­ic speak­ers in the area). The major­ity of those live in Badenoch & Strath­spey. Inform­a­tion com­piled by Bòrd na Gàidh­lig for the 2016 — 2017 aca­dem­ic year found that there were pupils in Gael­ic medium

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk early years and nurs­ery edu­ca­tion and 32 pupils in Gael­ic medi­um primary school edu­ca­tion in New­ton­more. There were also 10 flu­ent speak­ing pupils study­ing Gael­ic through the medi­um of the lan­guage in Kin­gussie High School. Gael­ic is a second learner lan­guage in Grant­own Primary School.There are a num­ber of Gael­ic com­pan­ies and vol­un­tary groups oper­at­ing in or near to the Park offer­ing ser­vices in Gael­ic lan­guage and cul­ture (a num­ber of which are sup­por­ted and/​or part-fun­ded by the CNPA). Gael­ic vol­un­tary groups in the Park include Sinne (Strath­spey & Badenoch Gael­ic Group), which provides learn­ing and shar­ing events for Gael­ic learners and flu­ent speak­ers and Gàidh­lig anns a’ Phàirc, a Gael­ic action group.

The CNPA funds a num­ber of the activ­it­ies and courses includ­ing sup­port through Cairngorms LEAD­ER Action Group for the Comunn na Gàidh­lig Spòrs Gàidh­lig pro­ject, provid­ing scope for out­door activ­ity exper­i­ences in Gael­ic and Gael­ic lan­guage courses. We have also run a num­ber of Gael­ic aware­ness courses through the Land Man­age­ment Train­ing Pro­ject for mem­bers of the pub­lic, board mem­bers and staff.

In terms of Scot­land, the total num­ber of people aged three or more recor­ded as being able to speak read and/​or under­stand Gael­ic in the 2011 census was 87,056 (1.9% of the Scot­tish pop­u­la­tion). Of these, the total num­ber of people who could speak Gael­ic was 57,602 (1.1% of the Scot­tish population).

While the num­ber of Gael­ic speak­ers con­tin­ued to decline over­all since the pre­vi­ous census, the num­ber of people able to speak and also to read and write

Gael­ic again increased between 2001 and 2011, pre­sum­ably reflect­ing a growth in Gael­ic lit­er­acy and grow­ing num­bers of Gael­ic learners. The num­ber of young people under the age of 25 able to speak Gael­ic also increased between 2001 and

  1. There is no author­it­at­ive fig­ure for the num­ber of non-flu­ent adult learners.

How­ever, an annu­al study in 2016 for Bòrd na Gàidh­lig estim­ated that there were 3,467 in Scot­land. There are around 4,500 primary and sec­ond­ary school chil­dren in Gael­ic medi­um edu­ca­tion (GME) nation­ally at present, with a fur­ther 1,000 chil­dren in Gael­ic medi­um nurs­er­ies. With­in Eng­lish medi­um edu­ca­tion, over 3,000 learners study Gael­ic as a sec­ond­ary sub­ject each year between Sland S6. Many chil­dren in Eng­lish medi­um primary schools take part in Gael­ic learn­ing as Lan­guage 2 or Lan­guage 3 each year. (Ref: Bòrd na Gàidh­lig annu­al audit.)

Regard­less of over­all num­bers of Gael­ic speak­ers, it can be expec­ted that the trends of increased lit­er­acy, increase in num­bers of flu­ent learners and increase in GME will con­tin­ue, lead­ing to great­er demand for services.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 Intern­al Gael­ic capa­city audit The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity con­ducts an annu­al audit of exist­ing intern­al Gael­ic capa­city and the res­ults of this audit were taken into con­sid­er­a­tion when devel­op­ing com­mit­ments in the Plan, and have assisted us in ascer­tain­ing how to estab­lish, main­tain or improve prac­tices in order to devel­op the use of the Gael­ic lan­guage. We recog­nise that Gael­ic is an integ­ral part of Scotland’s and the Park’s her­it­age, nation­al iden­tity and cul­tur­al life and we are already com­mit­ted to a num­ber of activ­it­ies with staff, part­ners and the pub­lic, which help to enhance the Gael­ic lan­guage and cul­ture. Our offices show that com­mit­ment and raise aware­ness of Gael­ic. Our wel­come notice boards in the Grant­own-on-Spey office use the bilin­gual logo and a Gael­ic intro­duc­tion, and the leaf­let hold­er uses the bilin­gual brand and Gael­ic Place Names leaflet.

Our annu­al Gael­ic capa­city audit shows there are no staff who are fluent/​mod­er­ate Gael­ic speak­ers, learn­ing Gael­ic or have the abil­ity to read or write Gael­ic. How­ever, 50% of staff con­firmed they have an interest in devel­op­ing Gael­ic lan­guage skills.

The CNPA funds and runs a num­ber of pro­jects, train­ing courses and events which pro­mote, devel­op and increase the Gael­ic lan­guage and cul­ture, both for staff and the pub­lic. We offer Gael­ic train­ing through a vari­ety of pro­grammes includ­ing the Land Man­age­ment Train­ing Pro­ject and fun­ded a Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing course for staff and board. This

was a half-day course, which raised aware­ness and cel­eb­rated Gael­ic in the Park.

Staff are also offered Gael­ic train­ing and learn­ing through the apprais­al sys­tem and we con­tin­ue to encour­age and offer these oppor­tun­it­ies as they arise. Gael­ic lan­guage guid­ance has been provided for all staff which includes how to handle enquir­ies received in Gael­ic to help staff use and feel con­fid­ent in Gael­ic. To date we have dealt with two Gael­ic enquir­ies which were respon­ded to with­in our reg­u­lar response times.

Our recruit­ment and selec­tion policy states: Knowledge/​experience of the Park’s tra­di­tion­al lan­guages like Gael­ic should be a desir­able cri­terion where it will make an effect­ive con­tri­bu­tion to the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan’s aims.Where a cer­tain level of Gael­ic skills is part of the job descrip­tion, the post should be advert­ised bilin­gually. To date six jobs have been advert­ised with Gael­ic as a desir­able cri­terion, how­ever, there were no applic­ants who met this cri­ter­ia. No jobs were advert­ised as essen­tial as no job descrip­tion met this require­ment. Gael­ic mon­it­or­ing on job applic­a­tion forms has been intro­duced from May 2015.

We have a new bilin­gual CNPA cor­por­ate logo which demon­strates equal respect and is used on our cor­por­ate pub­lic­a­tions, webpages, let­ters, com­pli­ment slips and busi­ness cards. Our Gael­ic Place Names leaf­let helps res­id­ents and vis­it­ors to appre­ci­ate which place names in the Park have Gael­ic lan­guage ori­gins and what they mean. This has

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk proved to be extremely pop­u­lar and has had sev­er­al reprints for dis­tri­bu­tion across the Nation­al Park. We also provide a Gael­ic fore­word in all our stat­utory and policy publications.

The Cairngorms Nation­al Park has its own brand. This is sep­ar­ate to the CNPA cor­por­ate logo and reflects the iden­tity of the Nation­al Park not the CNPA. There is a stand­ard brand iden­tity (logo) as well as a bilin­gual ver­sion (which was improved in 2015) and we have used this on a vari­ety of our pro­jects includ­ing the point of entry mark­ers, our web­site and inter­pret­a­tion mater­i­als. The CNPA board has over­all respons­ib­il­ity for the Park brand which is avail­able for any­one to use if they sign up to the Brand Charter guidelines. Gael­ic is cel­eb­rated through the bilin­gual ver­sion of the brand iden­tity around the Park. It is used on vari­ous point of entry mark­ers and on pan­or­a­mas (both of which are pro­duced and fun­ded by the CNPA). The pan­or­a­mas are on dis­play at ranger and vis­it­or inform­a­tion centres and those in com­munit­ies also include a wel­come and intro­duc­tion in Gael­ic. The Gael­ic ver­sion of the brand can be seen at loc­a­tions around the Park and we provide advice and sup­port to encour­age increased use of Gael­ic where this is relevant.

We mon­it­or and eval­u­ate all our Gael­ic activ­it­ies, includ­ing Gael­ic and bilin­gual cor­por­ate mater­i­als and sig­nage, pub­lic­a­tions, web con­tent, sup­port mater­i­als, edu­ca­tion­al resources, events, media and social media and edu­ca­tion­al pro­jects such as the John Muir Award which is offered in Gael­ic. The Cairngorms LEAD­ER pro­ject also

sup­ports Gael­ic pro­jects such as Spòrs Gàidh­lig pro­ject, to be delivered by Comunn na Gàidh­lig, with fund­ing of up to £90,000. This is included in our annu­al pro­gress report sent to Bòrd na Gàidh­lig and is pub­lished on our web­site. (See our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan Pro­gress Reports.)

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 The Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan in the Cor­por­ate Struc­ture This Plan is the policy of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity and has been endorsed both by our seni­or man­age­ment team and board mem­bers. The seni­or officer with oper­a­tion­al respons­ib­il­ity for over­see­ing pre­par­a­tion, deliv­ery and mon­it­or­ing of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan is:

Grant Moir Chief Exec­ut­ive Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own-on-Spey PH26 3HG 01479 870509 grantmoir@​cairngorms.​co.​uk The officer with oper­a­tion­al respons­ib­il­ity for the day-to-day oper­a­tion of the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Authority’s Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan is Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions & Engage­ment. Ques­tions about the day to day oper­a­tions of the Plan should be addressed to:

Fran­coise van Buuren Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions & Engage­ment Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own-on-Spey PH26 3HG 01479 870523 francoisevanbuuren@​cairngorms.​co.​uk The group des­ig­nated to reg­u­larly mon­it­or the imple­ment­a­tion of the Plan with­in the CNPA is the Organ­isa­tion­al Man­age­ment Group:

Fran­coise van Buuren Head of Com­mu­nic­a­tions & Engage­ment francoisevanbuuren@​cairngorms.​co.​uk

Gav­in Miles Head of Plan­ning & Rur­al Devel­op­ment gavinmiles@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Kate Christie Head of Organ­isa­tion­al Devel­op­ment katechristie@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Pete Crane Head of Vis­it­or Ser­vices petecrane@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Will Boyd Wal­lis Head of Land Man­age­ment & Con­ser­va­tion willboydwallis@​cairngorms.​co.​uk All staff receive an annu­al update on pro­gress made against our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan along with an action plan for the next 12 months. This iden­ti­fies spe­cif­ic actions, dead­lines and who is respons­ible for deliv­ery. All staff were invited to con­trib­ute to the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan con­sulta­tion process.We don’t have a ded­ic­ated Gael­ic Lan­guage Officer as the deliv­ery of the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan is embed­ded in staff work plans across the organ­isa­tion. In addi­tion as part of both this Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan and our Youth Strategy, we offer a Gael­ic speak­er a three month intern­ship every two years (budget per­mit­ting) which allows us to bene­fit from a Gael­ic stu­dent who is ded­ic­ated to deliv­er­ing the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan while sup­port­ing a Gael­ic stu­dent into employment.

We pro­act­ively provide advice and sup­port for busi­nesses and com­munity groups with­in the Park to make use of Gael­ic as an Asset through our Make it Yours cam­paign, guidelines provided on our web­site and through dir­ect engage­ment with spe­cif­ic pro­jects tak­ing place in the Park, eg Snow Roads scen­ic route.

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk Plan­ning and Policy Implic­a­tions for Gael­ic We recog­nise that the vari­ous pri­or­ity areas iden­ti­fied in the Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan will be primar­ily imple­men­ted through our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan but that oppor­tun­it­ies will arise to pro­mote and devel­op the lan­guage through exist­ing policy measures.

We will exam­ine cur­rent policy com­mit­ments to identi­fy areas where Gael­ic can be pro­act­ively pro­moted and the pri­or­it­ies of the Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan ini­ti­ated through addi­tion­al meth­ods. We see this devel­op­ment as cor­res­pond­ing to the nor­m­al­isa­tion prin­ciple which aims to include Gael­ic as an every­day part of life in Scotland.

In the form­a­tion, renew­al and mon­it­or­ing of policies, we will con­sider the com­mit­ments made in this Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan, and ensure that the impacts on Gael­ic will be in line with the Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan.

Main­stream­ing Gael­ic into the CNPA To embed Gael­ic into the way the CNPA car­ries out its busi­ness, the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan is over­seen by the CEO and the imple­ment­a­tion of the Plan is mon­itored by the Organ­isa­tion­al Man­age­ment Group. Annu­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Action Plans alloc­ate spe­cif­ic actions to staff from across the organ­isa­tion as part of their nor­mal work plans and respons­ib­il­it­ies. Each year a pro­gress report is pre­pared and pub­lished on the CNPA web­site. This report will include any actions iden­ti­fied and delivered through the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan and the impact this has made to increase the vis­ib­il­ity and use of the Gael­ic language.

The Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan The Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan focuses on six key devel­op­ment areas, all of which have a vital con­tri­bu­tion to make in increas­ing the num­bers of people learn­ing, speak­ing and using Gael­ic in Scot­land, and iden­ti­fies key devel­op­ment out­comes with­in each.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 The Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan Devel­op­ment Area Key Out­comes Home & Early Years An increase in the acquis­i­tion and use of Gael­ic by young people in the home and increased num­bers of chil­dren enter­ing Gael­ic medi­um early years edu­ca­tion. Edu­ca­tion Schools & Teach­ers An increase in the num­ber of chil­dren enrolling in Gael­ic medi­um edu­ca­tion (GME), doub­ling the cur­rent annu­al intake to 800 by 2017. A year on year increase in the num­ber of pupils engaged in Gael­ic learner edu­ca­tion (GLE) in both primary and sec­ond­ary schools. An expan­sion in the avail­ab­il­ity of Gael­ic medi­um sub­jects in sec­ond­ary schools. Post-school Edu­ca­tion An increase in the num­ber of adults acquir­ing Gael­ic from the cur­rent total of around 2,000 to 3,000 by 2017 and enhanced lan­guage skills among flu­ent Gael­ic speak­ers. Com­munit­ies More oppor­tun­it­ies for com­munit­ies and net­works of Gael­ic speak­ers of all kinds to use Gael­ic and increased use of the lan­guage in com­munity activ­it­ies and ser­vices. Work­place Expan­sion of the use of Gael­ic in places of work and an increase in employ­ment oppor­tun­it­ies where Gael­ic skills are required in order to enable ser­vice deliv­ery in the lan­guage. Arts & Media; Devel­op­ment of Gael­ic arts and media as a means of pro­mot­ing Her­it­age & Tour­ism the lan­guage, attract­ing people to it and enhan­cing their com­mit­ment through oppor­tun­it­ies to learn, use and devel­op Gael­ic. An increased pro­file for Gael­ic in the her­it­age and tour­ism sec­tors and increased use of Gael­ic in the inter­pret­a­tion of Scotland’s his­tory and cul­ture. Cor­pus Coordin­a­tion of the ini­ti­at­ives of parties act­ive in Gael­ic lan­guage cor­pus devel­op­ment to achieve enhanced strength, rel­ev­ance, con­sist­ency and vis­ib­il­ity of the Gael­ic lan­guage in Scotland.

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk We are com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that the Nation­al Plan for Gael­ic is imple­men­ted, as far as we are able to with­in the powers and influ­ence of the Park Author­ity. In this sec­tion we set out how we aim to sup­port achieve­ment of the Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan.

Home and Early Years We recog­nise that the sus­tain­able future of Gael­ic requires more people to learn the lan­guage and that atten­tion requires to be focused on the home and early years as the key means of achiev­ing this. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to help cre­ate a sup­port­ive envir­on­ment for grow­ing the num­ber of Gael­ic speak­ers in the home and early years in Scot­land: • • pro­mote oppor­tun­it­ies for visitors/​fam­il­ies to enjoy a Gael­ic exper­i­ence in the Park (eg Gael­ic Place Names leaf­let, inter­pret­a­tion, pro­mo­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion through sup­port mater­i­als, social media and our web­site); pro­mote and sup­port fam­ily John Muir Awards in Gaelic.

Edu­ca­tion We recog­nise that the sus­tain­able future of Gael­ic requires increas­ing the num­ber of people able to speak the lan­guage. We recog­nise the import­ance of edu­ca­tion, train­ing and life-long learn­ing to achieve this goal. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to help cre­ate a sup­port­ive envir­on­ment for grow­ing the num­ber of Gael­ic speak­ers in Scot­land: • work in part­ner­ship with the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Nation­al Park Author­ity edu­ca­tion team to deliv­er a Gael­ic edu­ca­tion project/​s;

• • • • • Gael­ic aware­ness rais­ing and lan­guage skills is included in the CNPA edu­ca­tion team’s work; devel­op clear work­ing prac­tices with part­ners involved in learn­ing that high­light the rel­ev­ance of Gael­ic in the Nation­al Park and agree ways Gael­ic can be incor­por­ated into the deliv­ery of partner’s engage­ment with edu­ca­tion groups; engage with Gael­ic speak­ing edu­ca­tion groups oper­at­ing in the Nation­al Park to learn from, and pro­mote their activ­ity; mon­it­or and update our edu­ca­tion resources and increase Gael­ic pro­mo­tion where this is low; con­tin­ue to pro­mote use of Gael­ic John Muir Award resources in the Park through New­ton­more Primary School.

Com­munity We recog­nise that the status of a lan­guage is affected by its use in the daily envir­on­ment and the extent to which it is val­ued and per­ceived to be val­ued by those insti­tu­tions which play an import­ant role in our daily lives. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity also recog­nises that cre­at­ing a sus­tain­able future for Gael­ic requires not only increas­ing the num­ber of people able to speak the lan­guage, but increas­ing actu­al usage. We recog­nise the import­ance of enabling more people to use Gael­ic as their pre­ferred and nor­mal mode of com­mu­nic­a­tion in an increas­ingly wide range of daily activ­it­ies. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to help cre­ate a sup­port­ive envir­on­ment for increas­ing Gael­ic usage in com­munit­ies across Scotland:

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 • • • • • • increase the use of our bilin­gual cor­por­ate logo and bilin­gual Park brand iden­tity and increase the num­ber of Park brand charter hold­ers; review intern­al and extern­al bilin­gual sig­nage of our cor­por­ate offices in Grant­own-on-Spey and Bal­later; cor­por­ate identity/​logo, let­ter­head, sig­nage at CNPA offices, inform­a­tion About the Author­ity’ on our web­site will demon­strate equal respect for Gael­ic and Eng­lish; staff are able to deal with enquir­ies (recep­tion, tele­phone, email, mail, forms, pub­lic meet­ings, com­plaints) received in Gael­ic and to respond with­in nor­mal times­cales (until we have a flu­ent Gael­ic speak­er work­ing for the CNPA responses will need to be sup­por­ted by a part­ner organ­isa­tion and/​or pro­fes­sion­al trans­la­tion ser­vices), and pro­mote and mon­it­or these ser­vices and provide front office staff with Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing every year; increase our use of Gael­ic through our media rela­tions and social media activ­it­ies, cor­por­ate pub­lic­a­tions, on our web­site and our sup­port mater­i­als at events; CNPA Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan and annu­al pro­gress reports pub­lished on www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk and pro­moted in our annu­al review; con­tin­ue to pro­duce and dis­trib­ute the Gael­ic Place Names leaf­let and devel­op know­ledge of Gael­ic place names in and around the Park to improve under­stand­ing of past land use and guide future land use;

• • provide Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing for loc­al com­munity groups and busi­nesses every two years; engage with Gael­ic com­munity groups oper­at­ing in the Nation­al Park to learn from, and pro­mote their activity.

The Work­place We recog­nise that Gael­ic is an import­ant skill adding value to our work­force and that form­al and open recog­ni­tion of Gael­ic skills will have a pos­it­ive impact on the Gael­ic labour mar­ket more widely. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to increase our Gael­ic capa­city and the use of Gael­ic as a work­place lan­guage in Scot­land: • • • • • staff and board Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing offered every year; recep­tion staff receive Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing every year and guid­ance on how to deal with enquir­ies from Gael­ic speak­ers for all staff; pub­li­cise Gael­ic train­ing oppor­tun­it­ies being offered out­with the organ­isa­tion and sup­port staff and board attend­ance by provid­ing time to attend train­ing courses and pay­ment of asso­ci­ated costs; con­tin­ue our recruit­ment policy that recog­nises Gael­ic as desir­able or essen­tial attrib­ute sub­ject to the nature of the role – if the abil­ity to speak or write Gael­ic is an occu­pa­tion­al require­ment then the lin­guist­ic abil­ity will be prop­erly taken into account and will be advert­ised bilin­gually; as part of our Youth Employ­ment strategy we will devel­op a Gaelic

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk • • • • • • lan­guage pro­ject to be offered as a stu­dent three month intern­ship oppor­tun­ity; provide Gael­ic aware­ness train­ing as part of induc­tion for volun­teer rangers/​volunteers; provide guidelines to help staff increase their use of Gael­ic in their daily oper­a­tions; annu­al Gael­ic aware­ness staff audit; annu­al Gael­ic aware­ness month to devel­op know­ledge about the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan and instil enthu­si­asm for Gael­ic with all staff; Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan annu­al pro­gress reports pro­moted with staff and board and pub­lished on our web­site and in our annu­al review; pre­pare an annu­al action plan to deliv­er the Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan.

Media & Arts and Her­it­age & Tour­ism We recog­nise the cent­ral role played by the media, arts, her­it­age and tour­ism indus­tries in sus­tain­ing and grow­ing engage­ment and increased use of Gael­ic across Scot­land. Also, we recog­nise the sig­ni­fic­ant con­tri­bu­tion that these areas make to the Scot­tish eco­nomy. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to help cre­ate a sup­port­ive envir­on­ment for the growth of Gael­ic (media & arts and her­it­age & tour­ism) in Scot­land and inter­na­tion­ally: • • con­tin­ue to provide Gael­ic branded events mater­i­al and inform­a­tion about Gaelic’s role in the cul­ture and his­tory of the Park for events; provide advice and guid­ance on oppor­tun­it­ies to use Gael­ic to increase its vis­ib­il­ity across the Park, focus­ing on vis­it­or attrac­tions and

inform­a­tion points; • work with Bòrd na Gàidh­lig / Cre­at­ive Scot­land Gael­ic Arts and Cul­ture Officer in order to advance and enhance Gael­ic arts and cul­ture with­in the Park; • work with VisitScotland’s Gael­ic Mar­ket­ing Officer to pro­mote Gael­ic exper­i­ences with­in the Park; • work with High­lands and Islands Enter­prise to pro­mote Gael­ic as an Asset’ via the web­site for part­ner organ­isa­tions, loc­al busi­nesses and edu­ca­tion­al bod­ies to use and bene­fit from; increase our use of Gael­ic through our media rela­tions and social media activ­it­ies, cor­por­ate pub­lic­a­tions, on our web­site and our sup­port mater­i­als at events.

Cor­pus We recog­nise the need to strengthen the rel­ev­ance and con­sist­ency of Gael­ic, the import­ance of facil­it­at­ing qual­ity trans­la­tion ser­vices and to pro­mote research into the lan­guage. We will take the fol­low­ing steps to strengthen Gael­ic cor­pus in Scot­land: • • con­tin­ue to pro­duce and dis­trib­ute the Gael­ic Place Names leaf­let and devel­op know­ledge of Gael­ic place names in and around the Park to improve under­stand­ing of past land use and guide future land use: con­tin­ue to use qual­ity trans­la­tion ser­vices to pro­duce our Gael­ic trans­la­tions needed to deliv­er our cor­por­ate pub­lic services.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment nation­al pri­or­it­ies The CNPA is com­mit­ted to achiev­ing the object­ives and Per­form­ance Frame­work out­comes estab­lished by the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment. The table below iden­ti­fies the per­form­ance out­comes that our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan devel­op­ment areas will assist with­in the new Nation­al Per­form­ance Frame­work launched by the First Min­is­ter in 2018.

Devel­op­ment Nation­al Out­come Areas Home & Early We live in com­munit­ies that are inclus­ive, empowered, resi­li­ent Years and safe. We are cre­at­ive and our vibrant and diverse cul­tures are expressed and enjoyed widely. Edu­ca­tion We are cre­at­ive and our vibrant and diverse cul­tures are expressed and enjoyed widely. Com­munity We live in com­munit­ies that are inclus­ive, empowered, resi­li­ent and safe. Work­place We have a glob­ally com­pet­it­ive, entre­pren­eur­i­al, inclus­ive and sus­tain­able eco­nomy. Media & Arts; We value, enjoy, pro­tect and enhance our envir­on­ment. Her­it­age & Tour­ism Cor­pus We live in com­munit­ies that are inclus­ive, empowered, resi­li­ent and safe.

www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk Loc­al gov­ern­ment pri­or­it­ies We will work with the five Loc­al Author­it­ies that cov­er the Cairngorms Nation­al Park: Aber­deen­shire, Angus, High­land, Moray and Perth & Kinross, to identi­fy oppor­tun­it­ies our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan can con­trib­ute to pri­or­it­ies set out in Com­munity Plan­ning Part­ner­ships, Single Out­come Agree­ments and their own Gael­ic Lan­guage Plans.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan pri­or­it­ies We will work with the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan deliv­ery part­ners to identi­fy oppor­tun­it­ies our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan can con­trib­ute to pri­or­it­ies set out in the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2017 – 2022 includ­ing: • • • deliv­er coordin­ated con­ser­va­tion action through the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Land­scape Pro­ject; deliv­er a con­sist­ent high qual­ity vis­it­or wel­come through new and improved inform­a­tion, sup­port for ranger ser­vices and part­ner­ship work­ing to sup­port busi­nesses, com­munit­ies and vis­it­or attrac­tions; com­plete the Snow Roads scen­ic route and devel­op a sim­il­ar exper­i­ence along the A9;

• • • • • • • deliv­er out­door learn­ing pro­grammes, eg John Muir Award and juni­or rangers; provide oppor­tun­ity for chil­dren across Scot­land to vis­it the Cairngorms Nation­al Park dur­ing their school life to learn about and con­nect with the Park in con­junc­tion with Nation­al Nature Reserves and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Nation­al Park; devel­op and pro­mote learn­ing resources and train­ing oppor­tun­it­ies that make it easi­er for edu­ca­tion pro­viders to use the Nation­al Park; cre­ate a Park for All’ by redu­cing bar­ri­ers and inspir­ing diversity of people to engage with and care for their Nation­al Park through life-long learn­ing; work col­lab­or­at­ively through com­munity plan­ning struc­tures to provide sup­port and inform­a­tion for com­munit­ies; estab­lish a new spa­tial pri­or­ity ini­ti­at­ive to provide enhanced assistance/​collaboration to the Dal­whin­nie, Kin­gussie, Lag­gan and New­ton­more area from 201920, mak­ing the most of the A9 dualling pro­ject; max­im­ise the oppor­tun­it­ies for busi­nesses, com­munit­ies and vis­it­ors from the A9 dualling project.

Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan 2018 — 2022 Plan Com­mit­ments High level com­mit­ments Bòrd na Gàidh­lig informed the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity on 3 March 2017 of the high level aims iden­ti­fied for inclu­sion in the renew­al of our Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan.The high level aims have been agreed by Bòrd na Gàidh­lig and John Swin­ney, Deputy First Min­is­ter of Scot­land and Cab­in­et Sec­ret­ary for Edu­ca­tion & Skills. These high level aims sup­port the cur­rent Nation­al Gael­ic Lan­guage Plan and Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment nation­al out­comes (p16).

Appendix 1 (p21) sets out the pro­posed out­come, cur­rent prac­tice, action required and tar­get date for each aim.

Ser­vice stand­ard com­mit­ments Cre­at­ing the right envir­on­ment for the use of Gael­ic in pub­lic life is one of the key com­pon­ents of lan­guage regen­er­a­tion. Bòrd na Gàidh­lig iden­ti­fied five core areas of ser­vice deliv­ery that it wishes pub­lic author­it­ies to address when pre­par­ing Gael­ic Lan­guage Plans, and spe­cif­ic func­tions or actions that can be taken in

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