A NEW DVD will be launched by Health and Social Services Minister Lesley Griffiths AM this week.

BLAENAU Gwent’s MP criticised the boss of collapsed care home provider Southern Cross for cancelling a meeting with politicians.

A CAERPHILLY councillor is calling on the authority’s leader to delay plans to share the running of its social services with Blaenau Gwent council pending the outcome of a Wales Audit Office investigation.

ANGRY parents and protesters gathered outside County Hall to voice their anger over plans to close the county’s only specialist autism centre.

WORK on a long-awaited state-of- the-art care home could be completed by the end of next year.

A Swansea council-run care home is being monitored after a complaint about neglect of a resident was upheld.

Unions have warned next year will be the “worst yet” after Cardiff council revealed it was facing a £18m funding gap in its 2012/13 budget.

Wales’s first centre to bring frontline mental health workers and Cardiff University’s world-leading researchers together for the benefit of patients has been announced.

Vulnerable young people need more support when leaving care, according to the Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

A NEWLY formed advisory board will support the role of Marie Curie Cancer Care in Wales, providing expertise and guidance on a wide range of campaigns and issues as well as working closely with the Marie Curie Hospice, Penarth.