Mark Drakeford announces additional £20m for social care in 2017-18
The extra funding announced today is on top of the £25m for social care provided to local authorities through the Revenue Support Grant and £10m to help meet workforce cost pressures in the final 2017-18 Budget.
It brings the additional investment for social care to £55m in 2017-18, which...Read More »
Health Secretary connects with NHS Wales staff
Health Service employees in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan will be first in Wales to get an opportunity to ask Mr Gething questions about the health service at a Cabinet Connect event.
The first staff Q&A session will be held at University of Wales Hospital, Cardiff, and invitations have been...Read More »
Increase in funding to help Wales’ most disadvantaged pupils – Kirsty Williams
The Cabinet Secretary has also announced that the Pupil Deprivation Grant will be renamed the Pupil Development Grant (PDG).
The Welsh Government is to invest over £90m through the Pupil Development Grant over the next financial year to help disadvantaged pupils in Welsh schools.
Extending the PDG was a key part of...Read More »
Extra £7 million for innovative all-Wales autism service
Today’s announcement brings the total amount of funding allocated to supporting autism services in Wales to £13 million up to 2021.
Wales is the first part of the UK to create a national service to provide lifetime support to children and adults with autism, and their families. The innovative service, which...Read More »
Carwyn Connect heads to Barry
The Carwyn Connect event will give local people the opportunity to meet the First Minister and ask him questions on any issues which affect them or their local community.
The session will take place between 6pm and 7.30pm at the Memo Arts Centre [Gladstone Road, Barry, CF62 8NA].
People are encouraged to...Read More »