Implementing the Welsh Language Standards
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               Implementing the Welsh Language Standards
       Contents
       Introduction...........................................................................................................3
       1. Presentation and communication..................................................................4
         Correspondence.................................................................................................4
         Corporate identity...............................................................................................7
         Signage..............................................................................................................8
       2. Meetings, events and exhibitions........................................................................9
         Public events in Wales organised, or 50% funded, by the EHRC.....................9
         EHRC presence at exhibitions or shows in Wales...........................................10
       3. Print, online and social media.......................................................................11
         Documents........................................................................................................11
         Forms...............................................................................................................12
         Website.............................................................................................................12
         E-bulletins and newsletters..............................................................................13
         Social media.....................................................................................................13
       4. Advertising and publicity material that promotes, publicises or explains 
       our work...............................................................................................................15
         Print adverts.....................................................................................................15
         Video................................................................................................................15
       5. Awarding contracts........................................................................................17
       6. Education courses that are offered to the public.......................................18
       7. Impact assessment of EHRC policies on the Welsh language.................19
         The process......................................................................................................19
       8. Our policy on using Welsh internally...........................................................23
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               Implementing the Welsh Language Standards
         Complaints.......................................................................................................23
         Email signatures...............................................................................................24
         Welsh language skills.......................................................................................25
         Learning and development policy....................................................................26
         Recruiting and appointing in Wales..................................................................27
         Signs displayed in our office in Wales..............................................................28
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                                    Implementing the Welsh Language Standards
                 Introduction
                 On 25 July 2016, the Welsh Language Commissioner presented the Equality and
                 Human Rights Commission (EHRC) with:
                   Compliance Notice – Section 44 Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 
                 This notice:
                                                                        sets out, or refers to, one or 
                                                                         more standards specified by 
                                                                         the Welsh Ministers under 
                                                                         section 26(1), and
                                                                        requires a body (the EHRC in
                                                                         this instance) to meet those 
                                                                         standards.
                 The compliance notice remains in force unless, and until, it is revoked. Our 
                 Welsh language scheme no longer applied from 25 January 2017 – the day on 
                 which we were required to comply with the Welsh Language Standards for the 
                 first time.
                 This document sets out how we will implement those standards.
                 1. Presentation and communication
                 All presentation and communication will not treat the Welsh language less 
                 favourably than the English, including correspondence, corporate identity and 
                 signage.
                 Correspondence
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