Agendas, reports and minutes

A meeting of the Gaelic Committee will take place in the Council Chamber, Council Headquarters, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness on Thursday, 28 March 2024 at 10.30 am. 

Webcast Notice: This meeting will be filmed and broadcast over the Internet on the Highland Council website and will be archived and available for viewing for 12 months thereafter.

You are invited to attend the meeting and a note of the business to be considered is attached.    

Yours faithfully

Stewart Fraser
Head of Legal and Governance

Business

1. Calling of the Roll and Apologies for Absence

2. Declarations of Interest/Transparency Statement

Members are asked to consider whether they have an interest to declare in relation to any item on the agenda for this meeting.  Any Member making a declaration of interest should provide some information on the nature of the interest and leave the meeting at the appropriate time.  Advice may be sought from officers prior to the meeting taking place.

3. Presentation – Hands Up for Trad, Scots Trad Music Awards                

Mr Simon Thoumire, Creative Director, Hands Up for Trad, will make a presentation to the Committee on the Scots Trad Music Awards.

The Committee is invited to note the presentation.

4. Performance against Gaelic Language Plan

There is circulated Report No. G/01/24 by the Interim Executive Chief Officer, Performance and Governance.

The Committee is invited to discuss and note the report.

5. BLAS Festival, Fèisean nan Gàidheal

There is circulated Report No. G/02/24 by the Interim Executive Chief Officer, Performance and Governance.

The Committee is asked to note the success of the 2023 Blas Festival.  

6. Gaelic Education Update

There is circulated Report No. G/03/24 by the Interim Executive Chief Officer, Performance and Governance.

The Committee is asked to:-

i. consider the key messages from the Inverness 3-18 Gaelic Education Feasibility Study;
ii. note the increase in Gaelic pupil numbers across Highland; and
iii. note the next steps as detailed in paragraph 4.7.

7. Gaelic Language Plan – Bòrd na Gàidhlig Assessment

There is circulated Report No. G/04/24 by the Interim Executive Chief Officer, Performance and Governance.

The Committee is invited to:

i. agree to homologate the decision taken by the Chief Executive and Interim Executive Chief Officer Performance and Governance, in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Gaelic Committee, to accept the revised changes to the GLP proposed by Bòrd na Gàidhlig within the required timescale; and

ii. agree to the submission of the revised GLP itself, the deadline for which is 9 April 2024.