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Cardiff's latest crop of budding chefs have successfully laid-on a mouth-watering show-case event, the culmination of a new, oven-ready Council programme, ‘Recipe for Life…Providing the Ingredients for Success'.
A record number of Cardiff school children are travelling to school in healthier and cleaner ways as part of a UK-wide walk to school programme.
This summer, more than 1200 children and young people accessed Cardiff's School Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP), meaning record numbers were able to enjoy the exciting programme of sport and educational provision, alongside healthy nutritious meals.
20/09/21 - Campaign launched to significantly increase number and diversity of foster carers in Cardiff
‘Foster Wales', the new national network of 22 Local Authority fostering services across the country, launches a campaign today which aims to make a substantial national impact on the futures of young people.
17/09/21 - Current Pressures in Social Care
Like most local authorities in Wales, Cardiff Council continues to experience unprecedented challenges caused by COVID-19. Social care has been particularly impacted as the demand for services rise, while at the same time there is a nationwide workforce
02/09/21 - #PositiveFuturesCDF - Kindness Counts: Willows High School Helping Others in the Community
Over the last 18 months we’ve learnt that kindness counts. Our pupils at Willows High School certainly put this into practice in the classroom as part of a project at the end of last term.
26/08/21 - Museum of Cardiff to re-open
The Museum of Cardiff is to re-open, almost 18 months after it closed its doors at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Morgan never gives up. If you could bottle up his enthusiasm and determination and sell it, you would make a fortune.” These are the words of Police Inspector Jones about one of their Police Youth Volunteers with South Wales Police.
On Friday 20 August, a team of creatives, including partners from Wales, will launch ‘Fix Up The City’ - the first ever city-scale, immersive Augmented Reality (AR) experience based on the iconic duo Wallace & Gromit – which can be experienced in Cardiff
12/08/21 - Cardiff schools celebrate GCSE results
Year 11 pupils are celebrating GCSE results today with over a third of grades (34.5%) awarded at A*-A.
Nikita, 13, was suffering from anxiety and had trouble connecting with school, so a Youth Mentor from Cardiff Youth Service began well-being walks and delivered a food parcel each week. Gradually they built up a strong rapport.
Congratulations to three teams from Ysgol Bro Edern who raced to the finish line and qualified for the F1 in Schools UK finals!
A scheme to encourage families to prepare, cook and eat together, will see more than 20,000 meals provided during this year's summer holidays.
As lockdown restrictions continue to ease and temperatures rise, many of us are flocking to Cardiff’s parks and outdoor spaces to soak up the sun and enjoy spending time outdoors with loved ones.
Cardiff Youth Service, part of our Education department, works with young people aged 11-25 to develop their personal, social and educational development through a variety of opportunities.
More than 40 million items of PPE delivered across Cardiff, and 2,295 food packages delivered to people shielding from COVID-19 in the city, are just some of the incredible Social Services numbers which have been revealed in a report to Cardiff Council.
