The Welsh Government has announced restructuring plans for adoption and fostering services in Wales following the closure of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) Cymru, it was announced
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The University of South Wales (USW) has become the country’s first institution of its kind to agree a formal partnership with a major dementia charity. At USW’s ‘Understanding Dementia 2015:
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The Welsh Government is asking people who believe their care should have been funded by the NHS to register their intent to make a claim. Continuing healthcare is a package
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A Vale of Glamorgan care home worker has been struck from the Register of Social Care Workers. A Fitness to Practise Panel of the Care Council for Wales found the
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Professional development training for social workers in Wales has been given a solid endorsement by practitioners who have already been involved in the courses. Eighty eight per cent would recommend
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Can art improve quality of life and well-being for people living with dementia? Might it even have wider social and community benefits? And if it does make a difference, how
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Capita Conferences have announced their Early Years Wales Conference will take place on 22nd October 2015 in Cardiff. As the Building a Brighter Future: The Early Years and Childcare Plan completes the
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The mental health budget in Wales will continue to be protected by a ring-fence following a Welsh Government-commissioned review, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford announced. In 2008, the
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The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sarah Rochira, has said she is ‘extremely disappointed’ by the response to her review of elderly protection in care homes from the Welsh Government.
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An inspection into adult social services at Powys County Council has revealed the local authority has failed to deliver on an earlier inspection which highlighted an urgent need to modernise
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