Emergency funding saves Scotland’s Gaelic programme from cuts

Emergency funding saves Scotland’s Gaelic programme from cuts

Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s language protection scheme holds onto 27 workers thanks to financial lifeline

Scottish ministers have given emergency funding to save a network of Gaelic community workers who faced being laid off because of government cuts.

Gaelic activists, MSPs and community leaders were dismayed after it emerged last month that Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG), the body charged with protecting Gaelic, was removing 27 development worker posts across the country.

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