In the week that Communities First holds its annual conference, with a big question-mark hanging over its future and following days of bad publicity, Victoria Winckler argues that the Welsh Government’s proposals are fundamentally flawed. Communities First must be one…

The Low Review of the proposed withdrawal of DLA mobility from care home residents is a sharp reminder that disabled people have the same mobility needs as anyone else. Chaired by crossbench peer Lord Low of Dalston, the Review (on whose steering…

Equality and Human Rights

The news that the south Wales valleys lines are to be electrified is both long overdue and very welcome. All kinds of extravagant claims are now being made about the investment being the solution to the valleys’ problems, and how we can…

Figures out from UCAS this week show that the number of people from the UK applying to go to university next September is down by 11.9% from the same period last year[1].  The figures cover initial applications made up until…