To mark Carers Rights Day 2015, Carers Wales held its first ever Carers Assembly. From across the length and breadth of Wales, carers replicating the constituencies and regions of Assembly members of the National Assembly, gathered to debate and have their voices heard. Carers save the state the quivalent of £8.1billion in Wales each year….
A 21-year-old claimant from Swansea with a complex mental health condition has lost a judicial review challenge brought following her compulsory detention in a hospital in Brighton. In Dyer, R (in the application of) v The Welsh Ministers & Ors [2015] EWHC 3712 (Admin) the claimant’s condition included autistic spectrum disorder ("ASD") and learning disability ("LD”). This…
Welsh Conservatives have today pledged to reform the local authority funding formula in Wales and ensure rural councils are no longer penalised. Labour’s recent budgetary spending decisions resulted in huge cuts for rural councils, including Powys (4.1%), Ceredigion (3.4%), Pembrokeshire (2.8%) and Monmouthshire (3.1%). The Shadow Minister for Local Government has called for a…
An initiative by the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, backed by the Chief Constable, sets out to bring about positive change in the officers and staff of South Wales Police to represent the communities it serves. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, spoke in October at the National Black Police Association Conference of the…
During this run up week to Christmas and the New Year period we are putting out a gentle reminder to be careful of rogue taxi drivers who may try to cash in on your need to get home after a night out. Police Sergeant Mike Rudall explains: "Despite the dangers, people seem to be undeterred…
A new study shows that a drug originally developed as an antidepressant may work to enhance the brain's 'waste disposal' and slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease. A study of mice shows how proteasomes, a cell's waste disposal system, may break down during Alzheimer's disease, creating a cycle in which increased levels of damaged proteins…
Commenting on an announcement by the Welsh Liberal Democrats that they will vote against the Welsh Government’s budget plans for local councils, Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs, Russell George, said: “This is pure hypocrisy from the Welsh Lib Dems. Their budget deals with the Welsh Labour Government have devastated rural communities and saddled rural…
Nearly 77% of care proceedings in Wales are now completed within the 26-week time limit, Cafcass Cymru has reported. The 26-week limit was introduced in April 2014 through the Children and Families Act 2014. Cafcass Cymru claimed that the performance in Wales was now the best in the UK. Its annual report for 2014-15 revealed that the…
Fantastic progress continues at England and Wales’ largest onshore wind farm Vattenfall, the European energy company, and their contractors building Wales’ largest onshore wind farm, are looking forward to a relaxing Christmas as the last of the scheme’s 76 wind turbine foundations are completed this week. Civil engineering works by the Jones Bros Balfour…
We have enjoyed another hectic year in the STEM department building on the progress and developments made in the previous four years. The Department has continued to work with Year 6 pupils from the primary schools such as Caegarw, Abercynon and Miskin and many of those children have chosen to attend MACS. The children from…
