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This latest blog post in WISERD’s series on the impact of the war in Ukraine examines what we know so far about public policy and the third sector response to the refugee crisis in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In Scotland there has been cross-party support for assisting Ukrainian refugees. The first minister said, “To those…

This latest blog post in WISERD’S series on the Ukraine crisis examines what we know so far about the response of the third sector in Wales. The prevailing Welsh policy framework and emerging actions of the third sector matter – foremost for the welfare of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Wales – and allied to this,…

Mae’r data diweddaraf a gasglwyd fel rhan o Astudiaeth Aml Garfan Addysg WISERD (WMCS) yn datgelu’r lefelau uwch o bryder a brofir gan bobl ifanc yn ystod y cyfyngiadau symud ac effeithiau parhaus tyfu i fyny yng Nghymru ar ôl y pandemig. Roedd bron pob un (93%) o’r disgyblion yn teimlo bod y pandemig wedi…

The Welsh Government expects to welcome 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in the first wave, with more to follow. Whilst asylum and immigration policy is a matter reserved to Westminster, many aspects of social welfare (health, housing, social services and so on) are devolved to the Welsh Government. Accordingly, it is appropriate that this latest addition to…

Nododd yr Athro Chris Taylor, cyfarwyddwr academaidd sbarc I spark ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd, yn y Western Mail a’r South Wales Echo heddiw ei bod yn bosibl bod plant a rhieni’n teimlo bod yr ysgol yn “ddewisol”, yn enwedig ar ddydd Gwener, yn dilyn dwy flynedd o darfu yn sgîl y pandemig. Darllenwch yr erthygl yn…

The situation in Ukraine is changing hourly but the indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, the brutality of laying sieges to cities and the recklessness of attacks on nuclear facilities are likely to continue, as will the untold suffering and mass population movements among the Ukrainian people. Responses by Western governments, in terms of economic sanctions,…

The murderous onslaught on sovereign Ukraine by Putin and his ruling clique of siloviki, or former members of the security services, has made the world aware of the enormities characterising his regime. We already had plenty of evidence of ruthlessness: Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, fomenting ethnic division in Donbass, and the Crimea. Putin, a KGB foreign intelligence…

Mae papur newydd gan WISERD yn tynnu sylw at sut y gall dulliau daearyddol gyfrannu at ddealltwriaeth o anghydraddoldebau o ran mynediad at gartrefi gofal a phreswyl yng Nghymru. Cynhaliwyd yr ymchwil gan gyd-gyfarwyddwyr WISERD, yr Athro Gary Higgs a Dr Mitchel Langford, ynghyd â Chysylltydd WISERD, yr Athro Mark Llewellyn, Cyfarwyddwr Sefydliad Iechyd a…

Arweiniodd dyfodiad Covid-19 i’r DU yn gynnar yn 2020 at newidiadau cyflym a phellgyrhaeddol yn y ffordd rydyn ni’n byw ein bywydau. Arweiniodd ‘y cyfnod clo’ at gau ysgolion a daeth gweithio o gartref yn gyffredin i nifer o weithwyr. A thra bod y rhan fwyaf o siopau a busnesau wedi cau, profodd gweithwyr a…