Crime
Police funding: up or down?
Are police budgets being cut? It depends which source of funding you count. Read
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Education
1.8m more pupils in good or outstanding schools
Schools’ Ofsted performance is improving and more pupils are in schools rated good or outstanding by its inspectors. Read
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Crime
Removing extremist online material
It’s the job of one particular police unit to “instigate” the removal of extremist material from the Internet where it breaches internet companies’ terms of service, or the law. Read
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Health
Council tax and social care: explaining your bill
We looked at the changes in how councils can collect money for social care and how this affects your tax bill. Read
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What changes are being made to pre-recorded evidence from alleged rape victims?
Plans for alleged rape victims to pre-record their evidence will be piloted in three courts from September, not rolled out nationwide. Read
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Welsh views on independence
Polls conducted over the last five years clearly show that supporters of Welsh independence are in a minority, but the exact proportion varies depending on how the question is phrased. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Public sector pay
How does council chief executive pay compare to that of MPs—and is it a fair comparison to begin with? Read
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Crime
What's happened to police budgets?
Police funding in England and Wales has fallen over the last five years, and is expected to stay flat over the next five. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Poverty in Wales
23% of people in Wales lived in a household where the income is below 60% of the UK median between 2013/14 and 2015/16. That’s including housing costs, and is roughly 700,000 people. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Wales’s fiscal deficit: the gap between tax and spend
There isn’t an official government estimate for the size of the deficit between government income and spending in Wales and it’s not simple to work out. Read
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