You may not have noticed, but there are a couple of Parliamentary by elections going on in England and the Labour party are jumping up and down trying to pretend they offer genuine opposition. The NHS has been a major campaign issue as usual, and once again the hypocrisy of these people is brought to…
Figures directly comparing the NHS in the four UK nations have been released today for the first time, and show the life expectancy of Welsh men and women are significantly behind the English average. The data from IDS Scotland indicates a 1 year lag in the average life expectancy of Welsh men – who live…
In January, the Welsh Labour Government scrapped a £15m scheme to help young people get to jobs and training after only 18 months. MyTravelPass was launched in September 2015 offering 16 to 18-year-olds a third off bus travel, and was meant to cease after March. Today the Welsh Government announced it was going to look at…
With social care in the news this month in England and Wales, the Welsh Government has said there will be no powers for local authorities to raise council tax to fund social care in Wales. Councils in England are being allowed to raise the tax by 6% over two years to plug a care funding…
Benefit sanctions have increased in ‘severity’ and are applied ‘inconsistently’, MPs say – and the Government doesn’t know why. A new Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report into the use of benefit sanctions has revealed jobcentres and providers use them ‘inconsistently’, with some Work Programme providers referring twice as many people for sanctions as others in the same…
People can now ‘walk’ some of Wales’ iconic trails and paths from the comfort of their armchair after Natural Resources Wales (NRW) teamed up with Google to add our special sites to Google Street View. These give people a 360̊ panoramic view, so anyone with internet access can virtually ‘walk’ the trails using Street View…
