Vocational Skills Partnership is a consortium of four private work based learning providers in Abercynon. Together they have created an online wellbeing hub where learners, employers and employees can access the latest information on improving their wellbeing. Date of Estyn inspection/visit: March 2013 Context and background to sector-leading practice Vocational Skills Partnership (VSP) is a…
It would be good to know the start date for repairs on the Tramway Bridge in Robertstown? The Council is set to begin an essential scheme to repair a river bridge at Station Road in Hirwaun, requiring temporary traffic lights in the area. The work, which gets underway on Monday, June 17, will see concrete and…
South Wales Police are continuing to investigate a road traffic collision which happened shortly after 12.30am on Sunday 9th June 2019 at Cardiff Street, Aberdare. Richard Jones, 34, from Cwmbach was in collision with a Citroen car and was taken to the University Hospital of Wales. Sadly, Mr Jones passed away peacefully the following day…
A team of three Year 8 students from Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun in Hirwaun has fought off tough competition from hundreds of schools across Great Britain to win the Wales prize in Shell’s national schools’ competition, The Bright Ideas Challenge. The winning team’s bright idea uses piezoelectricity generators placed on stairs to capture the mechanical…
“SO, WHAT’S IT LIKE ROUND HERE?” This is the story of a girl called Maya. A girl who is always thirteen. A girl who is always on the move. It is a story of a never-ending search for the last safe place on earth. Maya stands on the cusp of yet another beginning, at the…
Major names in the world of entertainment are once again heading to Rhondda Cynon Taf this month as part of the 2019 Rhondda Arts Festival (RAFT). Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is once again working with the organisers and supporting the month long event, which last year, in its inaugural season, attracted thousands of visitors to…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is as disappointed and concerned as residents are to learn that an empty recycling bag from this Authority was found within plastic waste from across the UK outside a town near the Malaysia capital of Kuala Lumpur. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-48581673/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-finds-uk-plastic-waste-abandoned-in-malaysia The Council first became aware of this matter following the investigations undertaken as…
South Wales Police appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision which occurred at 00.34 hours on Sunday 9th June 2019 at Cardiff Street, Aberdare. The incident involved a Citroen motor vehicle which collided with a male pedestrian at that location. The male pedestrian is presently at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where he…
Carers in Wales said they are 39% less satisfied with life and 37% said their happiness levels were lower than the rest of the Welsh population Urgent support is needed as the number of adult carers in Wales rises to 400,000 Unpaid carers in Wales are looking after loved ones living with an illness, disability…
Today, the Wales Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Support Hub launch a Welsh Government funded campaign to urge people to take the time to be kind to help reduce the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences. ACEs are traumatic experiences that occur during childhood that cause children to repeatedly suffer. The experiences can directly harm a child…
