Mental Health Services Saved
Mental health services used by hundreds of people in Newport – and around 20 jobs – are safe following a successful campaign to maintain annual funding of more than £250,000.
Read MoreMental health services used by hundreds of people in Newport – and around 20 jobs – are safe following a successful campaign to maintain annual funding of more than £250,000.
Read MoreThe Social Care Accolades 2007 have been announced by Mutale Nyoni, Chair of the Care Council for Wales. Following the huge success of the Social Care Accolades in 2005 work is underway for the next event in 2007. The Accolades are awards offered every other year to recognise and celebrate good practice in learning and development in social care throughout Wales.
Read MoreNightmares haunting Craig Sweeney’s terrified young victim have sparked a new investigation into the shocking sex abuse scandal. Wales on Sunday can today reveal that the Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched a fresh probe following a new complaint into South Wales Police’s handling of the controversial case.
Read MoreGwent’s top detective says children as young as 10 are using cannabis. Chief Superintendent Ray Wise told the Argus that by the time some children left primary school, they were “aware of drugs and have used drugs”.
Read MoreA police force criticised for its supposed liberal stance on drugs was yesterday accused of ordering officers to stop logging intelligence about drug dealers because they had already hit the annual arrests target. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary claimed that two divisions within North Wales Police were “instructed” not to enter the information on the force computer as further arrests would lead to a higher target the following year.
Read MoreDoctors at Wales’ largest casualty department have expressed concerns over the number of patients suffering side-effects from cocaine use. Official estimates show the five per cent of adults in Wales have used the drug, more than the UK average.
Read MoreA Gwent council worker was told he faces the possibility of a prison sentence after being convicted of carrying out sex attacks on two women employees.
Read MoreWomen fleeing domestic violence in parts of south east Wales will have to move “a long way away” unless more refuges are set up, say aid workers. Currently there is no refuge in Blaenau Gwent and the refuges in Newport, Monmouthshire, the Rhymney Valley and Torfaen face increasing demand.
Read MoreNew targets on tackling child poverty in Wales have been set by the assembly government which, it says, demand a “radical rethink of policy”.
Read MoreAn 85-year-old widow has been awarded £42,000 compensation after a battle over free nursing care. The family of Morfydd Jones, from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, began a legal fight two years ago.
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