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  • Funding for Fairwater mobility classes

    • May 13, 2014
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
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    YogaMobility have been awarded £15,360 from the People’s Health Trust for their Healthy Living in Housing project. YogaMobility are based at the Sbectrwm Centre in Fairwater, and provide specialist yoga practice for people with all forms of physical and mental disability. They offer a powerful and dynamic approach that focuses on and encourages ability rather

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  • Health and Social Care Committee’s Inquiry into Residential Care for Older People in Wales

    • February 22, 2013
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
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      20/02/2013   Mark Drakeford: Yr ymchwiliad hwn yw’r darn mwyaf helaeth o waith y mae’r pwyllgor wedi ymgymryd ag ef hyd yma yn ystod y pedwerydd Cynulliad. Wrth wneud hynny, ein man cychwyn oedd ceisio gweld y system o safbwynt y defnyddiwr. Gwnaethom ganolbwyntio ar y penderfyniad hanfodol cyntaf i fynd i ofal preswyl,

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  • Older People’s Commissioner’s Annual Report

    • January 24, 2013
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
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    Mark Drakeford: Mae’r Cynulliad yn ystyried adroddiad blynyddol y comisiynydd heddiw, a bu modd i’r Pwyllgor Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol gynnal ein cyfarfod craffu blynyddol gyda hi yn gynharach yn yr hydref. Dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, daeth nifer o gysylltiadau i’r amlwg rhwng ein gwaith ni fel pwyllgor a gwaith swyddfa’r comisiynydd. Nid yw’n fawr

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  • Domiciliary Care Question to the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services

    • October 25, 2012
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
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      Dydd Mercher, 24 Hydref 2012 Wednesday, 24 October 2012   Mark Drakeford: A wnaiff y Gweinidog ddatganiad am ddarparu gwasanaethau gofal cartref yng Nghymru. [Will the Minister make a statement on the provision of domiciliary care services in Wales.]   The Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services (Gwenda Thomas): Responsibility for assessing care

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  • Questioning Care as a Commodity

    • June 29, 2012
    • Posted by: Mark Drakeford AM
    • Category: News
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    As Chair of the Health Committee Mark was recently interviewed by the BBC on plans by the Committee to examin the issue of residential care for older people. You can find the BBC report and a video at this website

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