Communities and Children Secretary welcomes figures that show how homes are improving lives
The WHQS aims to ensure all homes provided by local authorities and housing associations are safe and secure and offer modern amenities.
The Welsh Government provides £108 million each year to help all social landlords meet the WHQS by 2020.
The Cabinet Secretary said:
“The Welsh Housing Quality Standard will ensure...Read More »
Welsh Government invests £8.2m in new ambulance vehicles
The investment will allow the service to purchase:
- 18 Emergency Ambulances
- 67 Non Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS)
- Five specialist Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) vehicles, to replace the existing fleet.
The Welsh Ambulance Service currently has over 700 vehicles in its fleet, which cover an area of more than 8,000 square miles across...Read More »
Plan to help improve mobile connectivity in Wales
Although mobile connectivity is the responsibility of the UK Government, the Welsh Government is looking at the powers it has in order to ensure a series of actions are implemented to facilitate improving the service in Wales.
The plan sets out how the Welsh Government will work together with the mobile...Read More »
First Minister opens new £22m college campus in Aberdare
More than 600 students will attend the new state-of-the-art campus, which was supported with £11m from the Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools and Education programme.
The 21st Century Schools programme is the largest investment in Welsh schools and colleges since the 1960s, which will see over £1.4bn being invested in the...Read More »
Wales secures the highest number of finalists for WorldSkills UK competition
The WorldSkills UK finals will take place at Birmingham’s NEC between 16 and 18 November as part of the NEC’s annual Skills Show, the largest skills and careers event in the UK.
The competition is used to benchmark excellence across a range of vocational skills areas. It is also...Read More »