Whether you’re a parent, carer, teacher, childminder, nursery worker or sports coach, we can help you to support children/young people to live well with their epilepsy. 

Llantwit Major FoodShare Pantry, operated by Glamorgan Voluntary Services (GVS), and Slade Organic Farm teamed up during the May half term to offer a free Seed to Fork Workshop, and even the seemingly relentless drizzle couldn’t dampen spirits!

Llais Wales/LLais are the new Citizens Voice Body for Health and Social Care in Wales, and our role is to represent the patient and public voice in regard to health and social care services. We work with our communities, engaging with different people and hearing their views and experiences so that we can share these with local providers. Where someone is unhappy with care they may have received we also offer a complaints advocacy service to support people through the NHS/Social Care Complaints process. Currently we are running our ‘Having a baby’ local project, where we are keen to hear from people around their experiences of being pregnant and the services they have accessed in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

The Vale of Glamorgan Corporate Strategy for Children who need Care and Support 2024 – 2028 is now available.

Motion Control Dance, situated in Barry, has recently achieved the prestigious Gold award from Disability Sport Wales insport Club Accreditation the Vale of Glamorgan Council can confirm.

The Emergency Unit at the University Hospital of Wales now has eTriage kiosks at its main entrance to improve patient experience, increase efficiency and to support the clinical triage team with prioritisation of those patients most in need.

We would like to invite staff/volunteers across the network of those who work with children and teens to access a free educational programme aimed at addressing the issue of youth vaping. As you know vaping among young people has become widespread and the long-term consequences are not well understood. 

For the sessions available in June 2024 & July 2024 please click here.

Thursday – 20th June 2024

Online via Teams 10.30 am – 11.30 am.

Adam Harcombe’s life changed forever after a night out in September 2020.

This Dietitians Week, which runs from 3-7 June, celebrates dietetics as a career.

Mum Jessica Roberts loves baking banana bread for her 10-month-old son, Elijah. She’s also mastered a mouth-watering fruity chicken curry and has wowed friends with her homemade pizzas.

With funding received via Cardiff and Vale Health Board we are excited to announce that ‘Fit Bluebirds’ is now running in the Vale of Glamorgan. FIT Bluebirds is a FREE health programme for men and women aged 35-65 who are looking to lose weight, get fitter and lead a more active life.

This week Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is celebrating Volunteers’ Week, and saying thank you to the hundreds of people who freely give their time to make such a difference to patients, services and staff.

Thanks to the support of the Cardiff Third Sector Council, Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board and Llais, VOICES ADFOCAD will be hosting the second annual Cardiff and Vale Unpaid Carers Assembly at Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground on October 2nd 2024.

The newsletter highlights the Vale 50+ Strategy Forum's recent activity which has taken place since the Annual General Meeting at the end of last year.

Public health officials are reminding parents and carers to ensure that their children are fully vaccinated with two doses of the MMR vaccine, as cases in the Gwent measles outbreak rise to 17.

The most common form of cancer diagnosed in Wales in 2020 was still non-melanoma skin cancer, despite a 17 per cent drop in diagnoses since 2019 associated with restrictions during the pandemic.

Public Health Wales recognise that local people are very concerned about the odours around the landfill site at Withyhedge. We continue to call for improved air quality data to be provided, to allow us to make a health risk assessment of the site.

Public Health Wales has released its most recent Child Measurement Programme official statistics which cover the period 2022-23.