Carers Rights Day poll:Welsh unpaid carers missing out on vital support as ‘public unable to recognise friends and family that care’ Half (50%) believe they ‘don’t know’ a single friend or, family member looking after a loved one, despite 1 in 10 Welsh people being carers. The Welsh public remains ‘in the dark’, as half…
The arrangements for providing clinical waste collections from residents homes in the Rhondda Cynon Taff area are to change. Rhondda Cynon Taff council will no longer be responsible for arranging collections. This responsibility will be transferring to Cwm Taf University Health Board on December 1st, 2017. WHAT IS CLINICAL WASTE?INFECTIOUS CLINICAL WASTE in a domestic…
Macmillan Cancer Support’s brand-new bilingual Welsh information and support bus, Bronwen, will be in locations in Rhondda Cynon Taf next week. Bronwen comes with her friendly team of Macmillan information and support specialists, a new team of frontline health and social care professionals with years of experience in caring and supporting people living with cancer….
Following our successful Child Poverty Conference held in June this year, Children in Wales put on this event to take forward and discuss some of the themes which came out of the Conference, such as partnership working, engagement and participation, evidencing impact and sustainability. This symposium was hosted by Tai Calon Community Housing, one of…
The St John U13 girl's football team travelled to the House of Sport in Cardiff to compete in the Cardiff City FC Foundation championships. The team has recently been established and have been coached by Keira and Nia in Year 10. The Year 10 girls have recently been awarded the title of ‘Directors of football’; a scheme…
RHONDDA CYNON TAFF COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL (UNION STREET, TRECYNON, ABERDARE) (TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE) ORDER 2017 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council intends, not less than 7 days from the date of this Notice, to make an Order under Section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as…
Local charity Welsh Hearts Calonnau Cymru, focus on funding Defibrillators in communities, businesses and schools throughout Wales, holding free CPR training and heart screening sessions to the public! A free CPR and defibrillator training session will be held at The Bear Hotel, Cowbridge Vale of Glamorgan on Saturday 29th November from 11 am – 2 pm. Welsh Hearts…
The festive season is nearly upon us and the Council is ensuring it can be celebrated in style this year with funding for each of Rhondda Cynon Taf’s town centres. The Council is providing £75k to fund Christmas events in Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Porth, Tonypandy, Treorchy, Ferndale and Llantrisant, with each town centre also receiving…
Open Spaces Society has welcomed the commencement of further provisions about common land in Wales—but have lamented the Welsh Government’s failure to communicate. The Welsh Ministers have made a commencement order(1) to bring into force provisions in the Commons Act 2006 about freedom of access to information in the commons registers, and about obtaining official copies of…
Previously the National Assembly for Wales asked young people in Wales to give their views on a youth parliament for Wales. The National Assembly has now announced the results. The new youth parliament will be called The Welsh Youth Parliament. They have also said that the parliament will have 60 members to represent young people, and…
