Ahead of the UK Government’s Spending Review statement, Welsh Government is urging the Chancellor to rule out a public sector pay freeze and deliver the funding Wales needs to protect our health, jobs and support a fair recovery. Finance Minister, Rebecca Evans has called on the Chancellor to use the UK Treasury’s levers to stand

Social care workers in the independent sector in Wales are to be given greater support to protect their well-being during the pandemic. The emotional support, including one-to-one counselling with the same counsellor, aims to provide easy access to well-being support for care workers who have been affected by their experiences working in the pandemic. Throughout

The winning card will be sent to the Queen and US President-elect Joe Biden First Minister Mark Drakeford is asking budding young artists to enter this year’s Christmas card competition. The winning design will be chosen by the First Minister and used as his official Christmas card. The First Minister sends his Christmas card to

Minister for Health and Social Services, Vaughan Gething statement on today’s (19 November) publication of NHS performance data. The Minister for Health and Social Services Vaughan Gething said: “In March, I directed NHS Wales to postpone all routine procedures and appointments so it could focus on its response to the first wave of the coronavirus

An interim report has been published today from the working group set up to strengthen education resources relating to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. The Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group was announced in July to oversee the development of learning resources and identify

Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, has announced a new set of experimental measures for emergency departments. Developed alongside front line clinicians, the three new measures will provide much greater context about the timeliness and quality of care in emergency departments. The measures will better record what happens to patients when accessing emergency care than existing targets,

A bill to reform local government elections, democracy, performance and governance has been passed in the Senedd. Exactly a year since it was introduced, the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Bill will provide increased opportunities for public participation and transparency in local government. The Bill will reduce the voting age in local government elections to

The devolved administrations have united to call on the UK Government to ensure those who are entitled to financial support are receiving. Deputy Minister for Housing and Local Government has joined Ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland in writing to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Thérèse Coffey, asking to work together to

Once again, beaches across Wales have achieved 100% compliance with high bathing water quality standards. Of the 105 beaches sampled by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), 84 achieved the highest classification of excellent, 14 good and seven sufficient – meaning Wales has continued its trend of delivering high bathing water quality for the third year running.

Today, Tata Steel have announced that they are in the process of separating its two components of its European operations, Tata Steel UK and Tata Steel Netherlands, and are in discussions with Swedish steelmaker SSAB for the sale of the assets of Tata Steel Netherlands.  This would leave Tata Steel UK, which includes the steel