BAILOUTS given to Aneurin Bevan other Welsh local health boards (LHBs) totalling £24 million are unsustainable, a finance watchdog has warned.

Flintshire has become the first county in Wales to launch an ID card scheme for young carers or children in care to help them explain their situation. LOIS YORK reports

The Welsh Government is again threatening to step in and take over child safeguarding duties at Pembrokeshire County Council following yet more stinging criticism of the authority’s performance.

The number of child neglect reports in Wales requiring intervention by police or social services rose by two thirds in the past year, the NSPCC has said.

HEALTH and Social Services Minister Lesley Griffiths AM will today launch a guide for mental health service providers.

AN EXTRA £877,000 could be spent on social services in Newport this year to help the department as it comes under increasing pressure.

The time it takes the legal system to permanently remove children from their parents when they are considered “at risk” varies by more than six months in different parts of Wales.

First Minister Carwyn Jones has defended a Welsh government decision not to set up a fund to pay for cancer drugs.

A report to improve and develop support services for people living with and caring for people with dementia in Carmarthenshire has been presented to the area’s Health and Social Care Board.

SOCIAL workers with Neath Port Talbot Council claim bullying and harassment is rampant within the department.