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Local Assembly Member Vikki Howells has welcomed moves towards ending the tax advantages of charitable status for private schools and hospitals. The proposals have been outlined by Welsh Government Finance Minister Rebecca Evans, and follows on from an announcement that the Welsh Government would be consulting on proposals to place independent schools and private hospitals

Cynon Valley Assembly Member Vikki Howells has backed a powerful Welsh Government campaign to help people identify controlling behaviour in relationships.  The Live Fear Free Campaign was launched by means of a hard-hitting new video  promoting “This is Not Love. #ThisIsControl”, available at https://beta.gov.wales/this-is-control. Coercive control is when a person with whom you are personally

by Sean Moses, currently studying towards a Masters degree in Politics in Cardiff University We are currently living through one of the most divisive periods the country has ever seen. The Brexit debate has split the public right down the middle, and perhaps nowhere is this divide more evident than in the way young people

Vikki Howells has welcomed the Welsh Labour Government’s continued commitment to its council tax reduction scheme. The scheme helps hard pressed families in Cynon Valley pay their council tax bills. The announcement will ensure that approximately 300,000 vulnerable and low-income households in Wales will continue to be protected from any increase in their council tax

Local AM  Vikki Howells has welcomed the Welsh Government’s increase in the  amount of money people in Wales can keep when in residential care from £40,000 to £50,000, effective from April 2019. At the Assembly elections in 2016, Welsh Labour pledged to increase the amount of money people could keep (the capital limit) from £24,000

9 year old Cariad Davies, a pupil at Ysgol Gymraeg Abercynon, has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Christmas Card competition held by Cynon Valley’s Ann Clwyd MP and Vikki Howells AM. Cariad came first for her winning design on this year’s theme of ‘Silent Night’, beating other entrants from schools throughout Cynon

Local Assembly Member Vikki Howells has welcomed the Welsh Labour Government’s announcement that high street businesses and other retailers in Cynon Valley will each receive a £2,500 cut to their business rates next year. The Welsh Government is investing £23.6 million to enhance and extend the high street rates relief scheme in 2019-20. Around 15,000

Vikki Howells AM visited British Heart Foundation Cymru’s Aberdare shop last week to find out more about the charity’s life saving research and its preparations for Christmas. The AM for Cynon Valley, met staff and volunteers and learned how the local community support the heart charity. She also found out about the work that goes

Local Assembly Member Vikki Howells visited Aberdare delivery office to see first-hand the operation of delivering Christmas post and to pass on early Season’s Greetings to its dedicated, hardworking staff.  Vikki was shown around the office and was introduced to the postmen and women, who will be pulling out all the stops to sort and

Local Assembly Member Vikki Howells has welcomed new figures showing that changes in the law on organ donation brought in by the Labour Welsh Government are delivering results. In 2015,  Wales became the first country in the UK to move to a soft opt-out system of consent to organ donation. This means that if a