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Hardly a month goes by without another horror story in the press and media about a disturbing state of affairs in our health and care services. The prosecutions at Winterbourne View, the massive collapse and public sector rescue of Southern Cross are symptomatic of a national care service system in crisis. Is there a democratically…

Mae’r Cyfnod Sylfaen (a gyflwynwyd yn 2008) yn cynnig cwricwlwm o ddysgu trwy brofiad, sy’n briodol yn ddatblygiadol, i blant 3 i 7 oed yng Nghymru. Nod y gwerthusiad annibynnol (dan arweiniad WISERD), a gomisiynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw gwerthuso pa mor dda y caiff ei roi ar waith, beth fu ei effaith, a ffyrdd…

Mae’r Cyfnod Sylfaen (a gyflwynwyd yn 2008) yn cynnig cwricwlwm o ddysgu trwy brofiad, sy’n briodol yn ddatblygiadol, i blant 3 i 7 oed yng Nghymru. Nod y gwerthusiad annibynnol (dan arweiniad WISERD), a gomisiynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw gwerthuso pa mor dda y caiff ei roi ar waith, beth fu ei effaith, a ffyrdd…

Mae’r Cyfnod Sylfaen (a gyflwynwyd yn 2008) yn cynnig cwricwlwm o ddysgu trwy brofiad, sy’n briodol yn ddatblygiadol, i blant 3 i 7 oed yng Nghymru. Nod y gwerthusiad annibynnol (dan arweiniad WISERD), a gomisiynwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru, yw gwerthuso pa mor dda y caiff ei roi ar waith, beth fu ei effaith, a ffyrdd…

Cymorth Cymru’s members working across the care and support sector have long been keen for Cymorth to extend its services to support their work in delivering care. Running alongside this, we have had an Inquiry into Residential Care chaired by Mark Drakeford, which called for a greater role for not for profit care providers and…

Yn yr adroddiad hwn, amlinellwn gynnydd y gwerthusiad yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf (2012/13). Hefyd, rhown fanylion am Gyfnod II y gwerthusiad; i raddau helaeth, mae wedi cynnwys casglu gwybodaeth fanwl am weithredu’r Cyfnod Sylfaen mewn pedwar deg un ysgol a deg lleoliad a ariennir nas cynhelir ym mhob cwr o Gymru. Dyma bedwar prif…

Obesity during childhood and youth has reached epidemic proportions (WHO, 2000). Inaddition to the long-term health risks, obesity during childhood and youth is associated withmultiple adolescent health problems ranging from type-2 diabetes to depression (Lobsteinand Jackson, 2007). Being overweight during youth is also associated with a range ofadverse psychosocial outcomes including lower self-esteem (Griffiths et…

The unadjusted public-private sector pay differential has attracted considerable political interest since the coalition government came to power in the UK in 2010. It has been used to justify changes to pay setting arrangements and the imposition of pay restraint on the public sector.However, previous analyses have shown that a large part of the premium…

Despite major expansion of higher education (HE) in the UK over recent decades individuals from the least socially advantaged backgrounds continue to enter HE at lower rates than their more advantaged counterparts (Christie et al, 2005; Croll and Attwood 2013), and when they do, they enter less prestigious HEIs (Ball et al 2002, Reay et…

In recent years, widening participation in higher education in Wales has been a key policy drive of the Welsh Government. Central to meeting its widening access agenda has been the adoption of area based strategies to widening access to higher education(HE) in Wales. This has been manifest in the targeting of residents of Communities First…