Wales headlines 24 October: snapchat groomer PC sentencing, stricter tracking on school absences, tens of thousands lost in council tax fraud
- 6 months ago
A police officer from Bridgend was found to have had over 4 thousand 5 hundred indecent images of children after grooming over 200 girls aged between 10 and 16 using snapchat. PC Lewis Edwards was found guilty of 160 charged last month and is currently undergoing sentencing, which is expected to take up to 3 days.
The Welsh government are set to classify thousands more pupils as persistently absent, hoping to tackle the ‘crisis’ happening since covid. The new threshold on persistence will be 10% rather than the old 20% margin, bringing the new numbers in line with similar plans taking place elsewhere in the UK.
Tens of thousands of pounds could be recovered by Cardiff Council after its most recent anti-fraud investigation. Up to £60 thousand pounds were identified by the team in relation to council tax reductions and liabilities, with some residents claiming the benefits they were not entitled to.
The Welsh government are set to classify thousands more pupils as persistently absent, hoping to tackle the ‘crisis’ happening since covid. The new threshold on persistence will be 10% rather than the old 20% margin, bringing the new numbers in line with similar plans taking place elsewhere in the UK.
Tens of thousands of pounds could be recovered by Cardiff Council after its most recent anti-fraud investigation. Up to £60 thousand pounds were identified by the team in relation to council tax reductions and liabilities, with some residents claiming the benefits they were not entitled to.