Kids’ One-Stop-Shop Opens
Children in Blaenau Gwent have a special one-stop-shop where they can make complaints and talk about services which affect them.
Read MoreChildren in Blaenau Gwent have a special one-stop-shop where they can make complaints and talk about services which affect them.
Read MoreUnion leaders are furious at UK government plans to pay court workers in Wales and the north of England less than their counterparts in the south. The plans for a new regional pay system by the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) would apply to workers in crown, county and magistrates’ courts.
Read MorePolice last night welcomed the closure of another North Wales crackhouse. The house on Wrexham’s Caia Park estate was linked to drug use and anti-social behaviour. It is the third property to be closed down in the area in the past month.
Read MoreHundreds of sex offenders across Wales have been let off with their crimes – despite admitting their guilt, we can reveal. A Wales on Sunday investigation has discovered that police and the Crown Prosecution Service have released hundreds of offenders onto our streets with just a caution rather than take them to court, where they could face a jail sentence.
Read MorePlaid Cymru yesterday promised a full pay rise for nurses as part of its programme for the NHS. It would ditch a staggered increase which will give nurses in England and Wales a 1.5 per cent pay rise in April and another one per cent in November.
Read MoreFor the first time, pub landlords in Wrexham will join forces in a bid to drive out violent customers who regularly terrorise innocent customers. It is hoped the Pubwatch scheme will reduce the number of fights and drunken incidents in the town’s bars dramatically.
Read MoreThe publishers of The Lancet are under fire from leading doctors who are complaining about their escalating involvement in arms fairs. Across three pages of today’s edition the medical journal publishes letters from top doctors, led by the Royal College of Physicians, who say that Reed Elsevier’s commercial interest in the arms trade undermines the journal’s efforts to improve health worldwide.
Read MoreHospitals in parts of England and Wales are reducing or even axing services for pregnant women because of the NHS’s financial problems, it has been warned. Antenatal classes and breastfeeding tuition are being affected, the National Childbirth Trust and Royal College of Midwives told the BBC.
Read MoreThousands of teenage criminals are escaping virtually unpunished because of failings in the new flagship system of “super-Asbos”. Almost 40 per cent of the 10,000 placed on the Independent Supervision and Surveillance Programme have broken the agreements keeping them out of jail.
Read MoreChildren who spend a lot of time in nursery are more likely to be aggressive and disobedient throughout primary school – no matter how excellent the nursery, according to study published today.
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