Help With Energy Costs, Balanced Lives Warm Hubs & Much More...

New briefing from the Welsh NHS Confederation Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) describes how the NHS, local government and third sector organisations across Wales are working to break down barriers and tackle health inequalities.

Please click the link to see the latest bulletin from the Wales Council of the Blind.

Our Health Board continues to face extreme pressures across services which includes maternity. In July, the Health Board unfortunately had to make the difficult decision to suspend home birthing services until October 2022 to alleviate workforce pressures in hospital midwifery settings. Home birthing services remain temporarily suspended, but the team are committed to doing their best to re-establish a home birthing service as soon as possible.

The Welsh Government is currently consulting on how substance misuse treatment services for young people and families are provided in Wales.

The Council is consulting on its draft Annual Delivery Plan for 2023-24. The draft Annual Delivery Plan sets out the actions we will undertake in 2023-24 as part of the delivery of the Council’s Corporate Plan for 2020 – 25. The Corporate Plan sets our priorities for a five year period whilst the draft Annual Delivery Plan details what we will take forward in 2023-24. The closing date for comments is the 8th January 2023.

Follow the pop-up Golau Food Project on Instagram: https://orlo.uk/Pg199

The pop-up Golau Food Project, Broad Street, Barry, CF62 7TZ, 4 - 6pm every Wednesday until 4 January 2023.

Retailers Donate while you shop this Black Friday.

Please click the link to see the latest bulletin from the Wales Council of the Blind.

Free NHS Self-Management Courses and Workshops

You are invited to our Age Friendly Festive Get Together in the Corporate Suite at Civic Offices, Holton Road, Barry, CF63 4RU on Friday 2nd December 2022.

Our forum meets fortnightly online, providing an opportunity to work together to co-produce different ways to support people with long-term conditions in Cardiff and the Vale! The forum is open to anyone passionate about improving health and wellbeing for people in Cardiff and the Vale.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is committed to supporting the Armed Forces community. To demonstrate its allegiance, Deputy Leader of the Council, Councillor Bronwen Brooks re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant alongside Brigadier Dawes, Mayor of the Vale of Glamorgan Council, Susan Lloyd-Selby and Armed Forces Liaison Officer, Abigail Warburton, at Mansion House on Monday 14 November.

Researchers from Public Health Wales have been jointly awarded the Health Care Research Wales Impact Award 2022 for their report on the future of unpaid carers in Wales project.

A new Welsh Government grant scheme to support energy efficiency improvements and decarbonisation across Residential Social Care providers, which will help the sector deal with the cost of energy crisis, has been launched and is now open for applications, Ministers announced today.

This winter RVS are delivering advice on how to stay safe, warm and well during the winter months, and will be helping vulnerable people to prepare by giving advice, handy tips and emergency contacts in a useful printed/PDF booklet titled Stay Safe, Warm & Well.

Care & Repair Cardiff and the Vale are currently recruiting for additional trustees to join their board.

The 'Caring for Carers' survey is a consultation exercise for both unpaid carers and organisations that provide or signpost to respite services, with the aim of learning more about the respite options available in Cardiff.

The Patient Experience of Social Prescribing Scoping Review.

The #MoveMoreEatWell Partnership Plan, has been designed to encourage individuals and organisations across Cardiff and Vale to lead healthier, more active lifestyles. We are delighted to be able to share the Move More, Eat Well Progress Report (2021 - 2022)