Housing Adaptations Consultation
The Welsh Government is consulting on ‘Housing Adaptations Service Standards’ which will include timescales for works and payments. Click here to access the consultation.
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Autumn 2018 Newsletter
A draft of Luke Clements’ Autumn 2018 Newsletter can be accessed by clicking here.
Read moreEnd of Life care & Continuing NHS Healthcare
We have posted on the main ‘What’s new’ section of this website a talk by Luke Clements concerning the current English NHS CHC guidance and statistics as they relate to…
Read moreNeglect is Self-Neglect too?
In a new ‘Views from Practice’ paper in the Rhydian on-line journal, Carys Phillips critically analyses the treatment of ‘self-neglect’ by the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 and…
Read moreRecent developments in children’s social care law and policy relating to Wales
Dr. Julie Doughty is the Deputy Director of Cardiff Law School’s Centre for Health and Social Care Research. Julie has developed the Children’s Social Care Law in Wales website and…
Read moreDirect Payments: Policy, Practice and Innovation Conference
A [pdf] copy of the PowerPoint Luke used at the Disability Wales Conference concerning Direct Payments: Policy, Practice and Innovation held at Cefn Lea, Newtown on the 20th July can…
Read moreWelsh Independent Living Grant ~ update
The Welsh Government have published an update note concerning the WILG which can be accessed by clicking here. An analysis of the situation will be posted on the 'Rhydian news'…
Read moreTransparency in the Family Courts: Publicity and Privacy in Practice
For details of a new publication from Dr Julie Doughty (Cardiff Law School), Lucy Reed and Paul Magrath click here.
Read moreBASW Cymru membership survey on the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
Following its annual conference in June 2017 – The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 – One Year On , BASW Cymru ran a survey to gather the views…
Read moreSupport needs of newly formed adoptive families
Sarah Meakins from Cardiff University and her colleagues have recently published a paper in Adoption and Fostering on findings from the Wales Adoption Study. This paper will be of particular…
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