The Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health, Luciana Berger has recently visited the Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) to meet with their team and discuss mindfulness
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The Welsh Government has announced £2.5m of funding which will support measures to reduce the number of people – the majority of them older people – who are unable to
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A £3m package of Welsh Government funding and support will help local authorities implement major reforms to Wales’ social care system when a landmark law comes into force in April,
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With child poverty levels in Wales continuing to be amongst the highest in the UK, a conference in the Glamorgan Building of Cardiff University this week (29 January) aims to
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A housing firm is to stop making asylum seekers wear wristbands to claim food after an outcry from campaigners. The brightly-coloured wristbands were handed out to refugees staying at Lynx
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The Care Council for Wales have announced four new core training modules are available to enhance understanding of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act. The bilingual learning materials, which
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A Home Office contractor supplying accommodation for asylum seekers has come under fire after reportedly giving migrants brightly coloured wristbands which they must wear at all times. The wristbands have
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A boy who died of scurvy was “invisible” to the authorities despite concerns being raised about his welfare, according to a leaked official report. Eight-year-old Dylan Seabridge, who was home-educated,
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New proposals to improve the quality of social care by restricting the use of zero-hour contracts and ensuring employers pay domiciliary care workers the national minimum wage have been unveiled
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Hospital emergency departments in Wales are “on the edge”, with some patients waiting for more than 24 hours, according to a leading doctor. There are problems with recruiting emergency medicine
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