The number of children in Wales placed in local authority care has risen by 44% in the last decade, figures show.

THE health and wellbeing of older people in Wales is to be charted in a multi-million-pound survey.

A maximum charge of £50 a week is being introduced for people in Wales receiving council home care services.

A range of social and health groups in Wrexham have launched a charter aimed at providing older people with dignity as they have medical or social care.

CONCERN is mounting over the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s plans to change day care provision for older people in the Vale – by combining the services available at Gardenhurst Day Centre in Penarth with those at Rondel House in Barry.

CALLS have been made to make sure frontline spending for social services is protected by the Welsh Assembly.

IT will cost pensioners £1,259 extra a year to stay in a residential care home in Gwynedd – pushing the total annual bill up to nearly £30,000.

PEOPLE receiving home help and day care from Conwy County Council will only have to pay £50 a week when new Welsh Assembly Government measures are implemented.

STUDENTS in North Wales are being denied funding for courses available to everyone else in the UK, claims an angry Flintshire woman.

Members of a sex cult in a small Carmarthenshire town have been warned they face long prison sentences.