A charity will discuss the issue of elder abuse at a special seminar in Wrexham. Age Concern Cymru will host the talks on strategies to help prevent elder abuse at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on Tuesday.

An investigation has been launched into why a 12-year-old girl with special needs was ordered to walk back to school alone from a day trip.

{mosimage}Nakita Williams had to walk more than two miles from Cardiff Bay, to Headlands School in Penarth, after she was refused a lift by a learning support assistant in charge of a group of pupils visiting the city’s ice-rink.

Nakita, from Cefn Hengoed, Hengoed, walked for 45 minutes, starting out along one of the capital’s busiest roads Cogan Spur, up to Penarth Marina.

She took a shortcut through a wooded area by the Billy Banks flats where she said some youths were drinking alcohol and then onto Paget Terrace before arriving at the school on Paget Place.

Her mum Mandy said she is so upset she feels sick when she thinks about what could have happened.

Nikita said she was ordered out of the car after taking off her seatbelt as a joke. The learning assistant then drove off with the other three pupils leaving Nikita, who has severe learning and behavioural difficulties, alone.

“I walked along the path up to the marina, then into the woods by the Billy Banks and back to school.” she said. “It was lonely. When I got back the lady saw me and said, well you made it back safely then? They knew I had walked but they did not do anything. I feel sad that it happened.”

Homeless and vulnerable adults are to benefit from a new health service set up in a Swansea church.

Damaging misconceptions about autism in Wales mean 17% think children with the condition are “simply badly behaved,” new research has found.

One of Wales’ best loved radio personalities has revealed how his life has been tainted by horrific sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

A former social work student at Bangor university convicted last year of causing actual bodily harm has been struck off the professional social care register.

A Care home worker from Swansea has been given a suspended jail sentence for stealing thousands of pounds from residents.

The latest crackdown on the drugs scourge afflicting Swansea housing estates has seen the issue of a crack house closure order.It has led to the house being closed up and all entry barred for three months.

Care home worker Emma Josef has been given a nine-month suspended jail sentence for stealing more than £5,000 from her special needs clients.

A nurse who tried to kill two elderly patients has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.