Mountain Ash Comprehensive School is proud to announce that it is one of the very first schools to adopt a new app for schools called Schoop. Currently about 50% of the letters sent home from school actually arrive with parents. The rest are either left at the bottom of bags or simply lost. This new app…
A social care leader is calling on the Welsh Government to take urgent action to quell a "perfect storm" threatening care homes and domiciliary care companies in the Rhondda. According to Care Forum Wales, the social care sector has been blighted by inadequate funding for many years. Now, care homes and domiciliary care companies…
A consultation to help conserve some of Wales’ most treasured marine wildlife is being launched by Natural Resources Wales (NRW). The proposals to create six new marine protected areas come after NRW and other conservation agencies across the UK spent several years studying a number of species and where they spend their time. If agreed,…
Charity says patients need support from friends and family in order to reap the many benefits of physical activity Family and friends could be doing more harm than good by insisting people with cancer ‘take it easy’ when they are going through treatment and recovery, a leading charity warns today. Macmillan Cancer Support…
Police in Llanharan are trying to reunite a stolen bike with its rightful owner. We have not found any reports of stolen mountain bikes that match, so the owner may not realise at this stage that it has been taken. We are urging the public to check their sheds and garages to make sure their…
Public Health Wales (PHW) is working in partnership with the Welsh Government to develop health outcomes and indicators which will show progress in improving health in Wales. The outcomes and measures of a Public Health Outcomes Framework will support the seven well-being goals that are in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. The…
Wales Education Minister Huw Lewis has announced that he is joining a growing list of Labour Assembly Members who intend to stand down this May. The Merthyr Assembly Member will not contest his seat in the Assembly elections, claiming that he has spent enough time in politics and wants to do something else. His Labour colleagues have…
Welsh Conservatives have called for a ‘five point plan’ to save the Welsh steel industry. The plan comes as TATA Steel are expected to announce around 800 job losses at their Port Talbot steelworks. Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, said action was needed at all levels of government and called on…
Providing you with easy access to the reports we have published this week. This week we have published inspection reports for the following services: Oak Tree Surgery Royal Glamorgan Hospital Mental Health Unit Plas Coch – Follow Up Skin Deep Beauty and Laser Clinic Spire Hospital Cardiff Royal…
92% of people affected by dementia found hospital environments frightening. Too many people with dementia are falling while in hospital, being discharged at night or being marooned in hospital despite their medical treatment having finished, finds an Alzheimer’s Society investigation. Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have uncovered unacceptable national variation in the quality of…
