Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have been working to clear 225 metres of overgrown reen to protect homes from flooding. The Internal Drainage Districts (IDD) have been working on projects like this since joining NRW earlier this year and were due to carry out work on the Gwent Levels, a Site of Special Scientific Interest…
Partner agencies in Cwm Taf have hosted Wales’ first-ever Safeguarding Week – and used the important occasion to launch an important new website to protect, inform and reassure residents. The risk of physical/emotional abuse or financial/sexual exploitation – including that involving young people via the internet and social media – is very real and something…
Join over 200 Cwm Taf residents today and become an antibiotic guardian by making one simple pledge of how you will make better use of antibiotics! Why it is relevant to you: without effective antibiotics many routine treatments will become increasingly dangerous. Setting broken bones, basic operations, even chemotherapy and animal health all rely…
New figures contained in a Freedom of Information Request have highlighted the number of ‘Labour insiders’ appointed to public bodies in Wales since the advent of devolution. Figures reveal that 195 people with direct links to the Welsh Labour Party have been appointed to public bodies in Wales since 1999; nine times the Conservative…
The NSPCC will be launching a campaign in the New Year to ensure all children who have experienced abuse or neglect get the therapeutic support they need. To inform this campaign they are surveying a range of professionals about their experience of local therapeutic services for children they work with who have been abused. It…
UKIP condemns the decision of the majority of the Welsh Assembly parties to vote through the £10,000 pay hike contained in the Welsh Government budget. This would take average backbench pay up to £64,000, which is more than three times the median wage in Wales. A UKIP Wales spokesperson commented: “Yet again, we see an…
