CARDIFF council’s social services chief has warned “difficult” decisions will have to be taken as it battles a massive £2.2m predicted overspend.

JUST two years after taking on a new role, an Ammanford care worker has picked up a prestigious national award. Ria Hayward, 25, was honoured at the annual Wales Care Awards after judges learned how she had transformed the lives of residents at the Cartref Annwylfan Care Home, Betws.

COUNCIL leaders have dismissed claims a child in care spent a night in a motorway services cafe – and challenged those who made it to produce details of the incident which they say did not take place.

A senior councillor has accused the health minister of “playing politics” with vulnerable children’s lives after she made claims about social services.

THE fate of an “economically unviable” Llanelli residential care home at risk of closure won’t be decided until March, council bosses have said.

More calls have been made for an independent inquiry into the body which inspects care homes in Wales.

The Welsh Assembly Government today published revised guidance which strengthens arrangements to protect and safeguard vulnerable adults.

There are calls for an independent inquiry into the body that inspects care homes in Wales after a BBC investigation showed some are repeatedly failing to meet basic standards.

MENTAL health services in Wales are failing children and young people, according to a damning report published today.

A PAEDOPHILE exposed grooming a teenager on the internet had fostered more than 20 children, it emerged yesterday.