Strictly Come Dancing star Ruth Langsford took a break from the dancefloor to join 3,000 people who united against dementia at an Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk. The Loose Women and ITV This Morning presenter, who lost her dad, Dennis, to dementia, swapped sequins for a blue Alzheimer’s Society t-shirt when she took part in the…
Concerns have been raised over the future for schools and social care in Wales, after comments by the Welsh Local Government Association. However, Welsh Conservatives say the “buck stops” with the Welsh Labour Government – who’ve been furnished with a fiscal framework, new tax powers and a protected block grant in recent years. Shadow Local…
People who believe their care should have been funded by the NHS are being encouraged by the Welsh Government to register their intent to make a claim. Continuing NHS Healthcare is a package of care provided free-of-charge by the NHS for people with complex and primarily health-based needs. This can be provided in a care…
Somerset County Council has paid more than £1.8m to settle a compensation claim arising from an accident involving a pothole in a road. This has emerged from a Freedom of Information request made by a local newspaper. The council said the highest claim it had met over the past three years had been ”£1,836,000 general…
Staff and patients at Pinewood House in Treorchy have created their own special version of Come Dine With Me. The mental health rehabilitation unit in Treorchy played host to an adapted version of the popular television show as patients and members of staff joined in to create three different courses for each other. Each of…
A new Council-funded maintenance grant to help businesses and landlords in Mountain Ash and Tonypandy improve town centre property fronts will open for applications from October 9. During September, Cabinet Members agreed to pilot the Town Centre Maintenance Grant over a one-year period, funded by a £50,000 Council investment, in Mountain Ash and Tonypandy. From…
The Welsh Labour Government has issued a combined £244 million in non-repayable grants since 2010 – despite promising to stop issuing handouts. At that point, Labour Ministers had issued a decree that future funding would need to be repaid, ending non-repayable grants. However, only a quarter of awards made since 2010 were given with repayment…
New data shows Welsh people are less satisfied with life, find it less worthwhile, are less happy, and more anxious than the UK average.* The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have found that Wales has scored worse than the UK average on all four of its well-being indicators, and worse than Scotland on life satisfaction and anxiety….
Voices From Care Cymru and the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS) Cymru are running events during care leavers’ week to launch their campaign “All young people leaving care with a valid passport”. The events will celebrate the benefits of having a passport, with a travel theme and international food. Voices from Care and NYAS hope…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority last month published long-awaited guidance on a key section of the Legal Services Act 2007 that it is claimed will stop many local authorities’ legal services trading activities "dead in their tracks". In December 2015 the SRA had suggested that local government legal departments which generated extra income by providing ‘reserved legal services’…
