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Latest news, information and updates about the Welsh Government and the Senedd, including First Minister Mark Drakeford. We'll bring you news on areas including health, social care, education, housing, transport, business, economic development, social services, language and culture, local government, cost of living help and more. For daily political analysis, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here

School summer holidays could be cut to just four weeks under new Welsh Government plans
Welsh Government
The six week summer holiday would be cut to five weeks and then four under proposals out for consultation - but the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru dismissed the plan as "an act of folly".
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'We face watching our daughter die needlessly because the drugs that would save her aren't "value for money"'
Health
Delilah Perkins was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was a few weeks old and her parents have been told from that point she would one day get the lifesaving drugs
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Welsh Government explains why it's stopped helping poorest families feed kids in school holidays
Welsh Government
The scheme, praised by food poverty campaigners including footballer Marcus Rashford, ended last May and Education Minister Jeremy Miles has now confirmed it won't be re-instated - with a long explanation given
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A huge housing estate will be built next to the Cosmeston Lakes beauty spot
Vale of Glamorgan
More than 500 homes and a school will be built on the site
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'We only found out on a Facebook post': Businesses get to grips with Wales' plastics ban
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'We only found out on a Facebook post
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Prescriptions to become digital in Wales with green slips replaced
Health
It will save 40m pieces of paper each year
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'Children as young as four are using disposable vapes like sweets - they need to be banned'
Welsh Government
"New vaping sales outlets are springing up on an almost daily basis, with more and more people becoming caught up in this addiction. Online, you can buy 10 disposable vapes for as little as £10."
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'We're trying to make the Welsh language welcoming to everyone and open to everyone'
Welsh language
The Welsh Government wants a million Welsh speakers by 2050, but census data showed language use is going down
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Interactive map shows locations of all Wales' highest risk coal tips
Welsh Government
A huge piece of work has been carried out since 2020
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How your council tax bill will change under Wales' reforms and the huge questions that remain
Welsh Government
There are three options on the table
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Concern as the number of people getting Covid and flu jabs falls
Welsh Government
Take up of the vaccines in Wales has been "slow"
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The areas of Wales facing the highest extra council tax bills in new reform
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government is considering making some areas of Wales subsidise less wealthy areas
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Head teachers in Wales end their industrial action
Wales schools
School leaders have agreed a new pay deal
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Wales plans to make people in hundreds of thousands of houses pay more council tax
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More detail about council tax reform has been released
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Wales to announce details of massive council tax shake up today
Welsh Government
A shake-up of council tax in Wales has long been promised
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Welsh Government minister apologises for 'joke' about Margaret Thatcher's hearse
Eluned Morgan
She was commenting on the return of another former Prime Minister - David Cameron - to Rishi Sunak's cabinet
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No fines have yet been given out for people breaking 20mph law
20mph speed limit
Enforcement is now starting at limited locations
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People are having to quit their jobs because bus routes are being cut
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Services all across Wales are being cut but the disparity between extra government funding for trains and buses has been questioned
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Conservatives call for Welsh Government to provide free school milk for all primary aged children
Welsh Conservatives
Free milk would help children and farmers they said in a letter to Education Minister Jeremy Miles
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Labour MP admits some of Wales' 20mph speed limits are 'frankly bonkers' and review should allow councils to change them back
20mph speed limit
'For people trying to get buses and for people trying to get to their clients as care workers and so on it's really difficult'
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Watchdog criticises £750k employment dispute bill involving former head of Wales' national museum
Welsh Government
The Auditor General said there had been “questionable use of public funds” which included a £50,000 payment for "injury to feelings", a payoff and a massive legal bill as part of the departure of former director general David Anderson
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Health boards in Wales asked to make even more spending cuts
NHS
Health boards have been asked to reduce their expected deficits by 10% as the Welsh Government moves money to 'prioritise health'
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New board members appointed to troubled health board months after former members were forced to quit
North Wales
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is currently in special measures after a damning report exposed monumental failings at the health board
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