With submission week rapidly looming artists are reminded that entries for the upcoming Open Art Competition will be accepted at Y Galeri Caerffili between 3 – 7 November. The event, sponsored by Caerphilly Town Council, is open to amateur and professional artists, aged 18 and over, who are given free creative rein over the work they submit. Artists…
Download (opens in new window) PDF[1.06MB] For each financial year, we prepare an estimate of the income and expenses for our organisation and present it to the National Assembly. This estimate demonstrates the Board’s determination that we are a well-run and accountable organisation that meets the statutory remit to provide resources to the Auditor…
The Shadow Minister for Health has raised concerns over evidence suggesting NHS Wales’ Chief Executive is entirely wrong on accident and emergency statistics. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has today highlighted Andrew Goodall’s claims that 80 per cent of patients don’t need to be at A and E, citing 15 per cent as…
Are you looking for something to kick start your anti bullying work? Struggling to find ideas in time for anti bullying week 2015? You’ve sorted everything but would like to be part of something BIG? The Preventing Bullying Behaviour Group and the Young Wales Anti Bullying Network have designed a short and snappy campaign that…
A NEW service to improve the care of acutely ill cancer patients in Cwm Taf University Health Board’s area has been officially launched today (26.10.15). Macmillan Cancer Support has invested £514,696 in the health board’s Acute Oncology Service, providing specialist support for cancer patients in emergency situations and hospital. The team is specially…
Using social networking sites of one kind or another is second-nature to most children. New sites are springing up every day and there are far to many to mention on this page … just look at the photo above, and that's a tiny selection. Get switched on about: The best approach Social networking & instant…
The Police and Crime Commissioner, Mr Alun Michael, and South Wales Police have officially joined forces with the Voluntary and Community Sector, also known as the Third Sector, in a pledge to fight crime together. A partnership agreement called a “Compact” was launched last Thursday 22 October 2015, at the Heronston Hotel, Bridgend, which outlined…
Cwm Taf’s executive team, many of whom are former clinicians themselves, are putting their uniforms back on to find out how they can improve frontline healthcare services. Earlier this year Cwm Taf University Health Board’s CEO Allison Williams committed herself and her team of directors to a shift each on the NHS Wales frontline…
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has urged the Welsh Government to require that landowners and occupiers who receive agri-environment funding keep the public paths on their land in good order. The society was responding to the government’s consultation on Common Agricultural Policy reform and cross-compliance. Says Kate Ashbrook the…
The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, is deeply concerned that the Welsh Government has attacked the public-path network, in its consultation paper ‘Improving opportunities to access the outdoors for responsible recreation’. The society considers that Welsh Government appears to dismiss the historic value of the public-path network, and its contribution to Welsh…
