A new body, Net Zero Industry Wales is to be created to support Welsh industry decarbonise and create new jobs in the green industries of the future, Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething, announced today.   The Welsh Government’s Programme for Government sets out a commitment to ensuring Wales becomes a Net Zero nation by 2050.  

Education and Welsh Language Minister Jeremy Miles has announced almost £25m of investment in the next financial year to tackle the impact of poverty on young people’s attainment.   The funding will be used to ensure more schools are able to operate and develop as Community Focused Schools, which reach out to engage families and

Charities supporting people through bereavement will benefit from £3m in funding over the next three years the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Lynne Neagle has announced today.   Sadly bereavement is something that will touch all our lives and charities and third sector organisation across Wales provide vital support.   In October last

The war in Ukraine and co-operation across Europe will be discussed by European leaders, when the First Minister addresses the EU Committee of the Regions.   The talks, held on Friday at the Senedd, in Cardiff Bay, will see leaders of the EU’s assembly of local and regional representatives meet their UK counterparts.   The

Wales is taking action against marine litter as it becomes the first UK nation to introduce a recycling scheme for fishing gear.   The first collection, which took place today on Global Recycling Day (March 18), has proved a huge success, with some three tonnes of fishing gear collected for recycling from seven harbours around

In the first phase of the extension of high-quality childcare to all two-year olds in Wales, the Flying Start programme is being expanded to 2,500 more children under the age of four.   Expanding childcare to all two-year-olds in Wales, with a particular emphasis on strengthening Welsh-medium provision, is a commitment in the Co-operation Agreement

David Rees MS, Welsh Labour’s Member of the Senedd for Aberavon, has welcomed the announcement from Welsh Labour’s Education Minister, Jeremy Miles, that families in Aberavon will receive a cash boost to help with school costs.   A £13m support package to help families pay for school uniforms and PE kits was announced by the Minister at the Welsh

A new Welsh Government plan to help more people in Wales to find and stay in work has been unveiled today by Economy Minister Vaughan Gething.   The new Plan for Employability and Skills sets out the actions Ministers will take to deliver the Young Persons Guarantee, support people furthest away from the Labour market

The £330m cost of living support package in Wales will see the most support going to households with the least, according to new analysis.   The Welsh Government has published analysis estimating the distributional effects of its immediate response to the cost of living crisis – through the Winter Fuel Support Scheme, Discretionary Assistance Funds,

Welsh Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has been appointed as the new Chair of Sport Wales, Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, Dawn Bowden, announced today   Tanni Grey-Thompson is renowned for her achievements as an athlete, and is a multi-gold medal winner in Paralympic sport. She competed for Wales at five Paralympic Games