Tag Archives: Victoria Winckler
Flu – don’t blame the victim
As the headlines about deaths from flu have begun to fade, attention has shifted to the low take-up rate of flu vaccinastions. Amongst over 65s, the rate last year was just 64% compared with the Welsh Assembly Government’s…
Delivery failure for disabled children
Today we’re launching our report on play and leisure services for disabled children and young people – or rather the lack…
Following in Bevan’s Footsteps
The Big Lottery Fund is today launching a fund to promote innovation in Wales. It’s being launched – deliberately – in Tredegar, birthplace of Aneurin Bevan.
Bevan has been called many things – not all of them complimentary – but he is rarely called an innovator. This is surprising because the two achievements for which he is…
Where’s the Big Idea for Wales?
Political debate in England feels increasingly different to that in Wales. Big Society is exciting many with articles in magazines, conferences and all kinds of projects. The localism agenda is generating a frenzy of interest and of course more conferences, as is all the talk of ‘transparency’ – supposedly…
Christmas rubbish
Wales’s 2011 Challenge
The challenge in 2011 is, as in so many years before, building a prosperous economy and a fair society. But the challenge in 2011 is all the greater because Wales’s economy is in pretty poor shape and is operating in a very difficult climate.
There can be little dispute that…
Christmas on the Dole
Christmas looks grim for nearly 70,000 people in Wales who are currently claiming Job Seekers’ Allowance. Those who receive JSA’s £65.45 a week are unlikely to be splashing out the average household spend of £645 on Christmas, and instead face pretty lean times in the ‘season of goodwill’.
About a…
Third of households marooned over Xmas
Looking forward to a break over Christmas? Visiting friends perhaps, bit of shopping and maybe an outing or two? The third of Welsh households that don’t have a car…
Beware England’s Backlash
Yesterday’s announcement of cuts of nearly 10% to local authority spending in England comes hot on the heels of the decision to treble tuition fees at English universities, scrap the educational maintenance allowance and make thousands of other cuts. Meanwhile in Wales local authorities face a cut of 1.4%,…
Gross Value Lost – A wake-up call for WAG
The news of Wales’s position at the bottom of the GVA heap should be no great surprise. This is no great surprise because Wales was bottom of the league in 2000 as well. However, while Wales’s poor relations of the North East of England and Northern Ireland have just about…
