THE details of how Swansea Council’s child social services department is failing youngsters in the city will remain a secret until next month.

THE leader of the council which placed a known sex offender with a family who had young children last night issued an unreserved apology over the case.

A council has admitted knowing that a 19-year-old man who raped and abused his carers’ children had a history of sexual behaviour.

A teenage boy appeared in court today charged with murder following the discovery of a woman’s body.

Social workers failed to warn foster parents about sexual offences committed by a teenager placed in their care who went on to rape their two-year-old son and abuse their nine-year-old daughter.

TWO of Wales’s top clergymen have vowed to root out any remaining paedophiles in the Church in Wales.

THE provision of social services in Wales was under scrutiny last night after two councils were heavily criticised in unrelated incidents.

VULNERABLE people in Denbighshire will be hit by soaring care charges, the cash-strapped council has decided. The mentally ill and elderly are the latest victims of the authority’s attempts to save money.

COUNCIL staff in Swansea have been subjected to more than a thousand incidents of threatening or violent behaviour in Swansea over the past two years.

As part of Cardiff’s International Women’s Day festival, Cardiff Council in partnership with the Henna Foundation, and other stakeholders, will host the ‘Safeguarding Victims: Prevention and Protection in Practice, Forced Marriage and ‘Honour’ conference.