The streamlined National Health Service in Wales faces an ‘enormous and complicated’ task in meeting expectations at a time of reduced public spending, the Welsh NHS Confederation has said
The Wales Audit Office has established itself as an authoritative voice but is at a watershed as the public sector faces a ‘major drive’ for efficiency savings, an expert panel has said
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced it will protect health and youth employment budgets from cuts while spending across the public sector is restrained
Mental health services across Wales continue to be inconsistent and could remain a low priority in the reorganised health service, Assembly Members have warned
NHS Direct Wales is providing a valuable service at a reasonable cost but should be more involved in the provision of ‘unscheduled care’, the Welsh spending watchdog has found
A new and more positive relationship needs to be developed between the devolved administrations and the UK government if the Union is to be preserved, leading academics and public officials have been...
Welsh councils look set to avoid European Union financial penalties for sending waste to landfill after achieving their targets a year early, according to the Environment Agency
The Welsh Assembly Government has set out further details of an initiative to create a ‘shared responsibility’ across agencies for supporting vulnerable children and families
The Welsh Assembly finance committee has called for simplification of the system of grants to schools and colleges after describing it as ‘a complete mess’
Controversial plans to redevelop Abergavenny’s historic 150-year-old cattle market are on hold again after Monmouthshire Council announced it was dropping the chosen developer
A second council in Wales is switching off its streetlights to save money. Ceredigion Council is following neighbouring Powys, which saved £225,000 last year with a controversial switch-off
A Lords inquiry has issued the latest in a series of official reports calling for the scrapping of the controversial 30-year-old funding mechanism for the UK nations. But replacing it will not be easy
Improvements to transport links between England and Wales are being held up by a lack of co-operation between central government and councils, MPs have said.
A project to improve the performance of disadvantaged school pupils in Wales has aided attendance and behaviour but has had no impact on performance, the education watchdog has said.
A flagship project to tackle high levels of deprivation in Wales has benefited local communities but work has not been effectively monitored, the Wales Audit Office has said.
