Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating awareness event about school meals in Britain. National School Meals Week has been running since 1993 and is organised by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA). The week encourages schoolchildren to enjoy a healthy school meal ...
Britain’s largest trade union the GMB is to ballot 300,000 members working in public services in their dispute with the government over pensions. The dispute covers GMB members in local councils, in private contractors working in the public sector, in the NHS, and in prisons, civil service and further and higher education GMB, the union ...
Cardiff Council’s Caddy Man will be in the Capitol Centre on Monday August 22nd between 10am and 4pm to meet the public and explain the major recycling and food waste collection changes coming to all households in Cardiff from the 12th September. Cardiff residents will be seeing a lot more of Mr Caddy Man over ...
A service to provide help and support to vulnerable people in their homes has been praised for how it helps the community.Cardiff’s Community Alarm has been praised for their work and service they provide to their users.Following an audit undertaken by Insight Auditors on behalf of the Telecare Telecom Service Authority (TSA) the report concluded ...
As teenagers in Cardiff wait patiently for their exam results, a leading helpline service for young people is offering support to those who are feeling anxious or worried. ChildLine is encouraging young people in Cardiff to contact the service by phone or online with any anxieties or worries about exam results, either before or after ...
A service of reflection, to pay respect to the victims of the bomb attack and mass shooting in Norway, is to be held at Cardiff’s Norwegian Church on Sunday at 3pm in the Grieg Room. Lord Mayor of Cardiff Cllr. Prof Delme Bowen, and the Lady Mayoress Ms Pamela Morgan will be in attendance. The ...
During the summer months, local residents may be more susceptible to unsolicited approaches about home repairs and gardening work.As part of its national campaign to warn people about rogue doorstep traders, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is urging people to be cautious and remember it is your doorstep, your decision and not to accept ...
A series of road shows to encourage and support parents and carers to spend time reading with their children have been a tremendous success. As part of Cardiff Council’s Reading Power literacy campaign, which seeks to drive up reading standards amongst children across the city and encourage parents to play an active role in their ...
Cardiff Council Bereavement Services have invited the citizens of Cardiff to a special annual Babies Remembrance Service on 26th June 2011 at 11:30am in the Wenallt Chapel at Thornhill Crematorium. The memorial service, supported by the Stillbirth and Neonatal Deaths Society (Sands) allows those who have lost a baby as well as their families and ...
Pupils from four schools* in Cardiff recently attended a ChildLine Day at the Millennium Stadium to learn about keeping themselves safe and hear how ChildLine – a service provided by the NSPCC – can offer support by phone and online. The educational day saw approximately 110 year six pupils take part in a series of ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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