In the last three years, councils across Wales paid out millions to over 750 members of staff who were suspended from duty, leading to calls by the Welsh Conservatives for an independent investigation. The data was obtained via Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by the Welsh Conservatives, showing that 16 of Wales’ 22 local authorities…
Rhondda Cynon Taf £50,000 to Pontrhondda Flying Start £60,000 to Little Ferns in Cwmbach £40,000 to Rachael's Playhouse £40,000 to Cylch Chwarae Penrhiwceiber Playgroup £16,000 to First Steps, Dai Davies £10,000 to Pentre'r Penguins, Llantwit Fardre Leisure Centre £16,000 to Messy Monsters, Gilfach Goch Community Centre £12,000 to Cylch Meithrin Ynyshir and Wattstown, at the…
Schemes funded in 2019–2020 Details of the local transport grants awarded to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Safe Routes in Communities Llwynypia Pontyclun £85,000 Safe Routes in Communities (Year 2) £211,000 Road Safety Revenue Grant Education & Training £124,500 Road Safety Capital Grant Safety Camera Digitisation – Various Locations…
South Wales Police can confirm that the five men who were arrested in connection with the cashpoint theft in Treharris on Tuesday (May 14), have all been charged with burglary and theft of motor vehicle. They are appearing at Merthyr Magistrates Court today (16 May, 2019). No further action will be taken against a 25…
A thousand children from 36 schools across South Wales have volunteered to sing in a musical extravaganza at the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, supported by a host of celebrity acts and professional musicians. Two schools in Aberdare will be taking part in the concert on 15th July 2019. Aberdare Park Primary School and Cwmbach Church in Wales…
Statistics out today by the End Child Poverty coalition show that 206,173 children in Wales were in poverty in 2018, or 29.3% of Wales’ child population and a 1% increase on the previous year after housing costs are taken into account. The powers to change child poverty levels in Wales sit with both Welsh Government…
Commenting on the shameful news that Wales was the only nation to see an increase in child poverty last year, Shadow Minister for Social Care, Children and Young People, Janet Finch-Saunders, said: “This shocking news sadly just confirms what Welsh Conservatives have been saying for a long time, that the Welsh Government is failing again…
Wales is set to get its own Planning Inspectorate after the Welsh Government concluded policy there now differed too far from England for a joint one to be any longer viable. The Welsh Government said planning law and policy had “diverged and continues to diverge at an accelerating rate from planning law and policy in…
Working at Vision Products has helped Jason Rowley grow in confidence, enabling him to live independently – in a home fitted with PVCu windows that have been manufactured at his workplace. Jason, aged 49, of Talbot Green, never dreamed that when he started work as a production operative with the Council’s award-winning Vision Products in…
These sixth form students from Pontypridd High School have excelled in a national engineering initiative, in which their Council-sponsored project to identify road safety improvements in Cilfynydd has won an award. Pontypridd pupils Tom Penikett, Liam Hooper, Seren Hopkins, Isabelle Preston and Trudy Pounder took part in the EESW Project – organised by the Engineering…
