The Leader of the Opposition accused the Labour First Minister of Wales of making a political choice not to talk to the Royal College of Nursing and other unions to prevent strike action over the coming weeks. Andrew RT Davies MS asked Mark Drakeford why no new offer was made to striking workers given the…
The Labour Government have unveiled their draft budget today, one key aspect of which was to allocate the additional £1.2bn in Barnett consequentials provided by the UK Conservative Government. This follows on from the Spending Review where the Welsh Government budget would be on average £2.5 billion higher than the baseline for the next three…
Check out this video report on the judicial review of RSE in Cardiff, where people like Lucia Thomas of Public Child Protection Wales have taken the Welsh government to court and given them a trouncing. A judgment is expected early next year. HIDING GENDER QUESTIONING FROM PARENTS IS SAFEGURDING RISK Amanda Spielman, chief of OFSTED, has…
The huge autism diagnosis waits for children Over 800 children are waiting over two years for autism diagnoses from the Labour-run Welsh NHS, new research has revealed. Freedom of Information requests from the Welsh Conservatives have uncovered how, of the 7,258 children waiting to find out if they are on the autism spectrum, two-thirds…
Residents can now have their say on proposals to modernise local residential care services – including a major investment to build four state-of-the-art new care accommodation while retaining five Council care homes. At their meeting on Monday, December 5, Cabinet considered the proposals, as well as the recent feedback from the Overview and Scrutiny…
RCT Council has successfully secured its first Anti-Social Behaviour Civil Injunction (ASBI) after a young person from within Rhondda Cynon Taf was issued with an Injunction at youth court recently (Tuesday, November 22, 2022). The case is also significant as it is the first Civil Injunction application that RCT Council have made to a court…
AberdareOnline reported on the lack of commitment by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council to answer a few questions about our bus services in Cynon Valley they have answered a few questions but not all, something odd as to why they cannot answer as two prominent RCT Cabinet members make up part of the Cardiff Capital Region…
This article was published in the Western Mail on 9th December 2022 WHILE it can be irritating – especially as a politician in a devolved legislature which is not covered nearly enough in the British media – to see news of US politics with little bearing on our nation, events there surrounding the restrictions on…
The BBC has reported today on the extreme pressures facing staff and patients at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital’s emergency department. The report reflects the Wales-wide figures that show the Labour-run NHS has three-quarters of a million people on an NHS waiting list, the slowest ambulance response times on records, and the worst A&E waits in Britain. Commenting, Welsh Conservative…
The Welsh Ambulance Service have carried out over two million hours of paid overtime in the last five years, it can be revealed. Figures obtained by the Welsh Conservatives show WAST staff work an average of 31,700 hours of overtime every month since April 2017, at a total cost of £61,166,262 – over £10m per…
