The Latest Breaking News from Welsh Government

Schools don’t have enough money to keep children safe or provide the statutory level of education, warn governors

Governors are demanding an urgent meeting with Education Minister Jeremy Miles

Wales Online · Apr 5, 2023

Welsh Government unlikely to recoup £7.3m it gave for failed racetrack

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the money is never likely to be repaid

Wales Online · Apr 5, 2023

Swansea Building Society CEO on community bank for Wales fears, UK branch closures and the threat to the self-build market

Alun Williams is the longest-serving chief executive of any building society in the UK

Birmingham Post · Apr 5, 2023

Plans to fine people who park on pavements in Wales are being delayed

The Welsh Government plans to fine people who park on pavements in Wales £70 fines - but it won't become law this year

Wales Online · Apr 3, 2023

Headmaster supports controversial decision to change controversial 'white world' motto for Llangollen Eisteddfod

Matthew Evans, the head of Ysgol Glantaf in Cardiff, said there was a need to move with the times

Wales Online · Apr 3, 2023

School head says children 'refusing food and drink' due to lack of hygiene rooms

The plans to expand the biggest special needs school in Britain would provide 150 extra places

Wales Online · Apr 2, 2023

Calls from leading group on Merthyr Tydfil Council for a fairer council tax system to be brought in sooner

'There is something wrong with the current system when those living in some of the most deprived areas of Wales are continually paying the highest rates of council tax'

Wales Online · Apr 2, 2023

20mph speed limit zones are not being introduced on the M4

We reported that the drastic move was being made later this year but it is of course April 1

Wales Online · Apr 1, 2023

Free school meals rolled out for primary years one and two in Bridgend

It means more than 4,700 children across the borough will now be eligible for free school meals

Wales Online · Mar 31, 2023

Leading figures criticise Eisteddfod's decision to change 'white world' motto

An open letter to the Western Mail defends the 'byd gwyn' motto of the Llangollen Eisteddfod which means 'blessed world' but could be mistranslated as 'white world'

Wales Online · Mar 31, 2023