RNIB Cymru’s Rights, Advice and Information Service (RAISE) is a specialist welfare benefit and welfare rights service for people with sensory loss across Wales who face poverty and social exclusion. The Big Lottery Fund provided three years’ funding of almost a million pounds enabling RNIB Cymru, in partnership with Action on Hearing Loss Cymru and…
New guidance issued recently will help operators take the necessary steps to minimize the risk of fires in waste sites in Wales. Several major fires at waste sites have been in recent years that have taken up to three weeks to turn it off. The new guidelines – issued by the Natural Wealth Wales…
Welsh Conservatives have responded to research showing that school budgets in Wales have fallen by around £370 per pupil in six years. Darren Millar AM, Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Secretary, said: “UK Government, with the agreement of Welsh Government, has introduced an historic funding floor which means that Wales now gets £1.20 for every £1…
Do you know someone who loves the outdoors, perhaps enjoys walking, riding or cycling in our countryside, on coastal paths or in urban parks or green spaces? OSS has written, curated and sponsored a range of publications and magazines on topics including a history of public paths, how to register and protect a village green and an…
Latest figures have shown the numbers of pupils on free school meals in Wales reaching the foundation phase indicator has fallen short of the Welsh Government’s 80% target. Responding to the latest figures, shadow secretary for education, Darren Millar AM said: “Regrettably, this is another yet target missed by the Welsh Government and provides…
The festive season is well and truly upon us and the Council is ensuring it is 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…
A study published on 7 December has suggested that hearing loss could be a risk factor for cognitive decline or dementia. The researchers, based at Trinity College Dublin, reviewed and analysed the results of 36 different studies involving over 20,000 people that looked into hearing loss and dementia. They found that age-related hearing loss had a…
A Welsh Conservative AM has criticised a Welsh Government decision to delay publication of a key strategy document. The Welsh Labour Government’s strategy to tackle loneliness and isolation amongst older people will not be published until 2019, but the Welsh Conservative Older People’s Champion is warning that 2019 “will come too late” for thousands of…
Our government on our behalf is reportedly offering to pay the EU around €45-50 billion of money that we don’t legally owe, to submit to our courts being overruled by a wholly foreign court after we have left the EU, and to make commitments keep our regulation in agriculture and possibly other fields “aligned” with…
