A mother has been jailed for 15 months for leaving her baby daughter at home alone every day for a week while she went out drinking.

Does allowing a child to become morbidly obese qualify as child abuse? Some health and social care professionals believe it is a question that needs to be considered more seriously.

Adult wheelchair users in north Wales are still having to wait for up to a year for assessments, despite improvements in other areas.

Two commissioners appointed to run Anglesey council will leave their posts in September, BBC Wales has learned.

Wales now has a framework in place to help its most vulnerable children, Deputy Minister for Social Services and Children Gwenda Thomas says.

Controversial plans to change the way some frontline hospital services are delivered in West Wales are emerging.

A REQUEST has been made to look at the the costs and future plans for Bryneithin Residential Care Home.

THE number of hospital units in Gwent for older people with a mental illness that is not dementia, will be cut from four to two under proposals from Aneurin Bevan Health Board.

The official South Wales launch of Alzheimer’s Society’s Advocacy and Befriending services funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s AdvantAGE programme took place a few weeks ago.

THE best chance mental health service users have of achieving recovery from serious mental illness is if they take control of their care and treatment.