Content about Social Issues

THE MEMORY cafe in the Butetown History and Arts Centre aims to provide a safe and relaxed environment where people who are affected by dementia can socialise and share their experiences.

The cafe has been set up in conjunction with Diverse Cymru and focuses on the area’s ethnic minority communities who lack awareness about dementia and dementia support. 

TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of Red Nose Day, a campaign which has raised more than £600m to help alleviate poverty in the UK and Africa.

The idea behind Comic Relief and Red Nose Day is simply to make the public laugh while they raise money to help people in desperate need.

PLANS to shock Cardiff binge-drinkers by filming them in the Alcohol Treatment Centre have been met with concern.

The Welsh Government refused permission for hidden cameras to tape drunken revellers at an alcohol treatment centre in Ebenezer Church in the city centre when it opened last year to relieve pressure on local hospitals.

But ministers have now given staff the green light to wear matchbox-sized cameras to record drunk people in the centre from next weekend.  

THE INDEPENDENT Police Complaints Commission has revealed police officers from Cardiff are among those under investigation for malpractice in the handling of domestic violence cases.

A Cardiff woman made a complaint at Fairwater Police Station in 2011 after her partner threatened her, but she was sent home by officers without any action being taken. She was assaulted by her partner two days later.

IN AN age where gender equality is written into the law books, the very idea of holding an annual International Women's Day, on March 8, should seem absurd.
In the UK, the gap between what men and women get paid is reducing but the difference still stands at around 10 per cent. Some professions such as brokers, doctors and lawyers have a much higher pay difference.

STEVE GARRETT knows a thing or two about making businesses work for the community.

Twenty years after he set up Riverside Farmers’s Market, it has become one of the busiest and most popular in Wales. Last year, he was nominated for a Green Dragons Den Award and is involved in community food projects across Wales.

Now Steve, who lives in Riverside, is using his business know-how to help Ugandan widows out of poverty.

Over the past week debate around The Sun's Page 3 has resurfaced with a vengeance. It began with a momentous tweet from Rupert Murdoch responding to an accusation that Page 3 was out-dated with: “You maybe right, don't know but considering.” Jenny Willott, MP for Cardiff Central, has added her voice by signing the No More Page 3 campaign’s petition and has frequently highlighted her concern to Ministers over the pressures around body image.

Prime Minister David Cameron told Westminster last week the poor, including those in Cardiff, should not need food banks to help them eat.

He said: “Benefit levels are not set at such a low level that people can’t eat, I’m afraid.”

This came as food banks across the country reported unprecedented demand. There is a hidden hunger in our society, and in the Welsh capital Cardiff Food bank are doing their best to tackle it.

A CARDIFF equestrian centre is planning to save Pontcanna Riding School after the council announced it would have to be sold to an outside investor.

It comes after Cardiff Council insisted yesterday it does not intend to close Pontcanna’s riding stables despite staff members and clients being told otherwise earlier this week. The Cardiffian understands there are a number of potential investors now interested in the site.

Part two of Werner Herzog’s controversial documentary series Death Rowprovided another fascinating look into the psyche of American prisoners awaiting the ultimate punishment.

Herzog this time goes head-to-head with a different kind of death row inmate than in the previous episode as he meets James Barnes, a chillingly articulate man who was sentenced to death after the murder of his wife in 1998 but then proceeds to confess to two further unsolved murders during the programme.

Teachers' unions in Wales are united in their support of the Welsh Government’s announcement of a continuation of the uniform grant scheme.

The scheme was introduced in 2007-8 and low-income families were entitled to £97.50 for school uniforms for the school year. As of 2012/13 these families can claim up to £105 for uniforms.