Carers Wales is pleased to announce that the charity has been awarded £249,831 for the next 3 years by the Big Lottery Fund. This grant is to enable Carers Wales increase capacity to connect people, organisations and professionals together to better support carers across Wales. To achieve this, the award will be used to help…
Phase 2 implementation of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 – Workforce aspects – covers the requirement for providers of domiciliary services to distinguish between travel time and care time and to provide domiciliary care staff with an alternative to zero-hours contracts. The consultation also seeks views on opening the register of social…
The pilot of 111 GP OOH (out-of-hours) services in Wales is benefiting from lessons learned in England, doctors leaders have said. The service, which differs from other UK models by having a greater proportion of clinical staff within it, was launched as a pilot in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board area in October…
The Cwm Taf Public Services Board (PSB) has just launched a new bilingual website which provides a single point of access to information about the areas of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. The Cwm Taf Public Services Board is a collection of public bodies, including the health board, working together to improve the well-being…
PUBLIC SERVICES OMBUDSMAN (WALES) ACT 2005 Notice pursuant to Section 17(3) of the above Act. The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has investigated a complaint and found maladministration/ service failure by Cwm Taf University Health Board and has sent a report on the results of his investigation to the Health Board. The complaint related to…
A project to gather evidence for a population of one of the world’s rarest sharks has been launched in Welsh waters. Once widespread across Europe, the Angelshark is now listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List (the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened species), with the waters around the…
Application No: 17/0801/10 Applicant: Persimmon Homes East Wales Proposal: A residential development with associated works. /Location: LAND OFF CARDIFF ROAD, CWM CYNON NORTH, MOUNTAIN ASH Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Welsh Office Circular 32/92 Application Affecting Public Right of Way Details may be inspected for 21 days at www.rctcbc.gov.uk/planning. Any…
A new Public Health Wales programme, Every Child Wales, is being launched today (24 July) to improve the health and wellbeing of children, as new survey results reveal that parents do not always recognise when their child is overweight. In the survey, just 4 per cent of parents with children aged 4 to 5 described their…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is developing a flood relief system at the Glynhafod Reservoir well that’s the official line from the council. Long standing residents of Cwmaman and Glynhafod will remember the flood of 1986 that caused devastation to the area, after the flood a great amount of flood relief work was carried out on the…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has begun work on the Cwmaman Flood Alleviation Scheme. During May, the Council published a statutory notice signalling its intention to start land drainage works, to reduce the risk of flooding at Glanaman Road, alleviating risk to residential properties and critical infrastructure sites. The works area is on the Nant Aman…
