Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Swansea University announce plans for a brand new laboratory for scientific analysis within the University’s Singleton Campus. Work to build the new NRW Analytical Services facility within The Faraday building will start immediately, with staff scheduled relocate from their Llanelli base into the laboratory in September. At the new…
Reassurances have been given by Council leader Andrew Morgan that Ton Pentre Police station is to remain open. He has apparently been told by the Chief Superintendent that rumours of the closure of the station are false and that there are "no plans to close Ton Pentre police station." We very much hope this is true…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council welcomed an impressive 8,500 plus people to beautiful Aberdare Park at the weekend, as the ever-popular Aberdare Festival returned – and brought the sunshine with it! See all the pictures on our Facebook page People of all ages travelled to the park to enjoy sports, games, live music, donkey rides, a fairground,…
The First Minister of Wales has confirmed that he is to scrap the Government’s Delivery Unit – an enduringly mysterious outfit which at the outset of the last Assembly term was tasked with achieving policy outcomes across Government portfolios. Yet during its five years in operation, the Unit has been the focus of much controversy…
Welsh Conservatives have today urged Education Secretary Kirsty Williams to keep to her word and not use a costly ministerial car within her new cabinet role. In February, she told her Party’s conference in Cardiff that the Welsh Lib Dems were “not here for ministerial cars”. However, Welsh Conservatives have forced First Minister Carwyn Jones…
A local authority has won an appeal to the Upper Tribunal over the inclusion in an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) of the costs of transport to and from a specified place of education. The issues before Judge Lane in Staffordshire County Council v JM (Special educational needs: Other) [2016] UKUT 246 (AAC) were: (i) whether…
Commenting on new statistics, which show a reduction in the number of adult services and places regulated by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales, Clwyd West AM Darren Millar said: “CSSIW decides who can provide social care services, and with an ageing population in Wales, any reduction in the availability of services and places…
The National Paediatric Diabetes Audit report, published today, shows that diabetic children and young people in Wales will be plunged into “a lifetime of ill-health and disease” unless standards of diabetes care and education do not drastically improve, say the Welsh Conservatives. Data from the report, which was carried out by the Royal College of…
Responding to comments from Welsh Government adviser Prof David Reynolds, who has questioned Welsh Government plans to cut infant class sizes, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns said: “Clearly, reducing class sizes will not be a silver bullet to solving the educational crisis facing Wales’ schools. “With the evidence racking up as to…
Powys County Council will defend any legal challenge by parents to its policy over school transport, which has already led to the resignation of a cabinet member. The council decided in 2011 to give three years’ notice that it would not allow the use of designated school funding to pay for home to school to…
