Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) has published its 2017-18 annual report, outlining its work throughout the previous year. The 2017-18 annual report shows CIW regulated 5,968 services providing 111,557 places, and carried out 2,955 inspections across adult and children’s services, and childcare and play. The inspectorate dealt with 5,010 changes to services’ registrations and ways…
Zeelo, the flexible shuttle service, will be offering Welsh Rugby Union fans in Aberdare FREE travel for their Autumn International clash against Australia this Saturday. Wales will be looking to build on their comfortable 21-10 win over Scotland at the weekend, a victory which saw them lift the inaugural Doddie Weir Cup and stretch their…
Business Improvement Districts in Wales today urge the Welsh Government to adopt the cut in business rates announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in last Monday’s Budget. Philip Hammond announced a one-third cut in business rates for smaller retail firms to boost the high street. Business rates are a devolved matter and…
South Wales Police have secured a criminal behaviour order for a teenager from Hirwaun.Kyle Townsend, 17, has been banned from entering specified areas in surrounding towns and villages at night, namely Mountain Ash and Aberdare.A total of four prohibitions were granted at Merthyr Magistrates Court on Wednesday, 31st October, following an application by local police…
Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, will attend a civil society briefing in Wales on 6 November, hosted by Children in Wales in Cardiff. This is part of the Special Rapporteur’s visit to the UK from 5-16 November. The event has been organised by the Observatory on Human…
