12/03/2017 BBC Wales Today

Welsh councils say more investment in social care is needed

here after extra money was announced for England in the

Social care funding in Wales has been protected

Labour Assembly Member Eluned Morgan told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics

programme a new strategy is needed to deal with the demands

Jonathan Parker and his family are amongst the thousands that

Support workers provide 17 hours a week of care

I go for walks and I go, I go bowling.

The council pays an organisation to provide support for Jonathan

so he can live at home and be independent.

In the budget, the Chancellor announced an extra ?2 billion

As a result of that and other spending announcements,

the UK Government says, over four years, there will be

around ?50 million a year for the Welsh government.

It's not clear yet how much of that, if any, will go to social care,

but Welsh councils say there is an urgent need

We've got a ?90 million pressure on an annual basis

on Welsh social care, so, you know, even if the whole

50 million goes in from the Welsh government, it still doesn't meet

I think there is potential for us to marry here economic development

with the care service, in the sense that we could be

starting to build homes, for example, that are adequate

for a longer term future for housing older people.

That is something where we could build an economic

I think that is something we can start to be creative with.

Providing care at home is the main theme of a plan published this week

by a new organisation, Social Care Wales.

It launches officially next month and takes over from the Care Council

They are very complex issues and a growing situation.

But I'm confident that we have here in Wales the tools now to get

to grips with the challenges that we have got.

The Welsh government will have to balance competing demands

on the extra cash from the budget, but whatever the decision,

it's certain more money won't provide all the answers.

Flights between Cardiff and Anglesey will be run by a new operator

Eastern Airways has been appointed to run the service

after the previous operator City Wing went into liquidation.

The Welsh government pays an annual subsidy

All pre-booked tickets will be valid on the new planes.

A 22-year-old man was treated in hospital after an incident

in Swansea City Centre in the early hours of this morning.

Police went to the Kingsway at around half past 3

Nearby roads were closed for a short time to allow forensic

Speaking up for voters who oppose Brexit will help

the Welsh Liberal Democrats in May's local elections.

That's according to their President Roger Williams

who was speaking at the party's conference in Swansea.

Delegates there voted to call on the UK government to allow

a referendum on the terms of leaving the EU.

The Liberal Democrats have accepted the result.

It's the will of the people but we also were very conscious that

15 million people voted to stay within the European Union as well.

We have to take into account their view,

because they have a role to play in this process as well.

Snooker and Judd Trump has won the Player's Championship which has

been staged in Llandudno for the first time.

He beat Marco Fu 10-8 in the final to take home

Before I go, a look at tomorrow's weather and it will be

mainly fine and dry, with bright or sunny spells.

Although, it'll be cloudier for a time in the west with some

We're back in Breakfast tomorrow from around 6.25am.

From all of us on the weekend team, goodnight.

But from all of us here, have a good night.

Good evening. For many places it was a fairly cloudy day on suspend but

there was sunshine for western areas during the afternoon, and here are

the clear skies at sunset in Northern