MORE than 100 of 700 plus job vacancies advertised by a Gwent council last year required some Welsh language skills.

That saw 112, of 718 new or vacant posts advertised, as requiring Welsh and those were broken down as 38 jobs for which the language was “essential” and a further 69 with it being “desirable”.

Five posts were advertised as Welsh “need to be learnt” while 606 posts were classed as ‘no Welsh skills required’.

Torfaen Borough Council’s Welsh language officer Alan Vernon-Jones said the percentage of posts advertised as requiring Welsh, in 2024/25, had increased five per cent on........

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