Welsh Conservatives call for Small Business Charter to boost the smallest firms Welsh Conservatives are calling for a Small Business Charter to support Wales’ smallest firms. Shadow Economy Secretary, Russell George, is urging the Welsh Government to deliver the tax cut they promised small firms during the Assembly elections, and to take steps…
To raise awareness of Sign Language Week we chatted to Heather Patterson who works for RNIB Cymru as a Rights, Advice and Information Case Worker. Heather was born deaf along with her brother and attended a regular school that had a hearing impaired unit. Although Heather was allocated a few different teaching assistants who would…
PEOPLE residing in rural areas with other commitments that might prevent them from taking up a full-time job make ideal employees says an award-winning care provider in Wales (March, 2017). Abacare, which has offices in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and provides care across Wales, says, to get the best from staff, offering flexible working hours, to…
Campaign for Better Transport is just the latest painful reminder of how repeated cuts to public funding are depriving people of vital bus services across the UK. More than 500 bus routes across England and Wales have been either withdrawn or reduced over the past year, amid £30m of cuts to local authority supported bus funding,…
Changes to councils’ school transport policies are causing ‘upheaval’ for an increasing number of pupils, Ombudsman warns. A new report from the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) found in 2015/16 there were 261 complaints and enquiries about school transport compared with just 160 the previous year. In one case detailed in the report, a council refused…
