The health service in Wales may need to find up to £1.9 billion in savings over the next five years, according to the assembly government’s health minister.

COUNCIL bosses expect to replace a top director, despite insisting they are looking to share roles with other councils.

THE family of a former resident in an axed Risca care home were sent a letter by the council saying their relative will need to be re-homed – two months after her death.

A project offering food parcels to the most needy is winning praise in the Conwy county seaside town of Towyn.

A home that provided refuge for scores of children needing residential care is giving them a last chance for a look round.

MORE than 50 elderly residents are set to lose their homes under a controversial shake-up of care services in Blaenau Gwent.

As UK forces continue to suffer casualties in Afghanistan, a rehabilitation centre at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan is helping soldiers injured both there and and in Iraq.

A social work student who was convicted of a string of frauds totalling more than £70,000 has been removed from the social care register.

A PLACE on the Queen’s honours list has come like a “delightful bolt from the blue” for a social care pioneer.

USERS of an under-threat Newport day centre were dealt a final blow yesterday as councillors agreed to close it as part of plans to transform day services for vulnerable and older people in the city.