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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Improving mental health services are among the Welsh Government’s key priorities over the next three years, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford announced today as he launched the formal consultation
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A letter warning of the serious threat to care and support from an underfunded National Living Wage has been sent to the First Minister and Health Minister in the Welsh
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Nearly £22m of grant funding has been awarded to organisations and projects which support vulnerable children, adults and older people by the Welsh Government, Health and Social Services Minister Mark
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A new plan to tackle the harms caused by ‘legal highs’ and risky drinking behaviours by older people has been unveiled by the Welsh Government. The three-year ‘Working together to
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