Drugs and violence are rife at a new prison being run by inexperienced staff, according to a watchdog. Drugs were “readily available” at HMP Berwyn, with nearly half of prisoners
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Guests at the official opening of a housing association’s £7.8m extra care facility in Porthmadog heard about its positive impact on the lives of residents. Grŵp Cynefin’s Hafod y Gest
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A team of NHS learning disability staff are set to pound the streets and mountains of North Wales as part of a lung busting charity challenge. Dozens of staff from
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The Government has apologised “unreservedly” to the family of an 82-year-old woman who committed suicide after her benefits payments were stopped. Joy Worrall (pictured) had just £5 in her bank
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Two Wrexham-based residential child care workers have been suspended by a Social Care Wales fitness to practice panel after a young person in their care ran away while on an
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A study is to examine whether measures such as referring to prisoners as “men” and their cells as “rooms” can help rehabilitate offenders. The three-year project will focus on HMP
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Two free conferences to help practitioners who work with or come into contact with older people who experience abuse are set to take place next February. The conferences aim to
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A Denbighshire nurse is putting his best feet forward in a bid to provide better support for the mental health patients in his care. Joe Lewis, who is based at
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An adult care home manager from Flintshire is to be removed from the Register of Social Care Workers after Social Care Wales found his fitness to practise was impaired because
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A council must pay a man £2,500 after it destroyed his BMW while he lay in hospital. Flintshire County Council in North Wales removed the man’s car after it was
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