Cardiff Central - Jo Stevens MP

Health and Social Care During Fire-break Lockdown

Can I still access health services? You can leave your home to access local health services, but you should phone beforehand. Please follow any guidance your local surgery or health service has put in place to protect you and staff, including the need to keep 2m away from other patients…

Fire-break: Schools and Education

Will primary schools remain open? Yes, primary schools will remain open other than during usual half term holidays. The Welsh Government has said throughout that ensuring children can continue to be taught in school is a priority, and schools are also a safe environment. Will secondary schools remain open? Secondary…

Fire-break lockdown: Working

What are the rules about working from home? You must work from home if you can. However, people who are not able to work from home, but are able to work safely in their workplaces, can do so, provided their workplace remains open. WG guidance to employers is that employees…

Fire-break lockdown: Childcare

Are childcare providers still allowed to operate? Yes. Children can continue to access their usual childcare provider, and you can travel to provide, access or receive childcare. All childcare providers, including Flying Start childcare, can remain open and offer their normal services, including provision through the half term holidays. This includes…

Closure of gyms during Firebreak lockdown

I’ve received lots of emails in recent days from constituents regarding the importance of leisure centres and gyms. I agree, the physical and mental health benefits of exercise have been so important for most people throughout this pandemic. The scientific, medical and technical advice given to Welsh Government indicates that…

Firebreak: When can I leave home?

You should only be outside of your home for very limited reasons, which include: the need to obtain supplies and services for you or your household, for example food, medicine, and essential household maintenance. We encourage everyone to make this as infrequently as possible to exercise, alone or with members…

Firebreak: Seeing other people

Can I meet up with another household? For most households the answer will be no, you must not meet up with anyone you do not live with, except in very limited circumstances such as providing or receiving care (see answer below on caring responsibilities). If you are an adult living…

Fire-break Lockdown: Support for Businesses

The Welsh Government will ensure full details of support for businesses is announced this week. The Welsh Government have created an enhanced Economic Resilience Fund of almost £300m. Putting an extra £150m into phase three of the ERF to support to businesses affected by the firebreak Every business covered by…

‘Fire-break’ Lockdown: What this means for you

The Welsh Government have taken the difficult decision to introduce a two-week fire-break, starting at 6pm on Friday this week. It will include the half-term holiday and cover two weeks, ending on Monday November 9. The fire-break is the shortest the Welsh Government can make it, but that means it…

Getting a Sick Note for COVID-19

If you have symptoms of coronavirus infection (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home and do not leave your house for 7 days from when your symptoms started. If you live with others and you are the first in the household to have symptoms of coronavirus, then you must stay at…

COVID-19/Coronavirus: Key Sources of Information

If you’re looking for information and advice regarding the current Coronavirus pandemic, make sure to avoid any fake news and follow these key sources of information. These sources are being constantly updated and are the best places to find the latest information. Daily updates from Public Health Wales https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/latest-information-on-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/ Online…

Green Garden Waste Collections Suspended for Winter

Collections for garden-waste across Cardiff are to be suspended for four months in order to help the Council deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and to ensure general waste, recycling and food waste collections can continue to take place. The once-a-month, garden waste collections, which normally take place in November,…

Black History Month

Thank you to all constituents who have written to me recently regarding Black History Month, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. I would like to update you on the important action taken by the Labour Party in our commitment to racial equality and the abolishment of structural and systemic racism.…

1,138 Households not Claiming Pension Credit in Cardiff Central

The failure to deliver Pension Credit to those entitled to it is costing the NHS and social care systems in Cardiff Central £4.0 million every year, according to older people’s charity Independent Age. More than 1,138 households in Cardiff Central who are entitled to Pension Credit do not receive the benefit, which…

Glenwood Church Awarded £500,000 by National Lottery Community Fund

Glenwood Church in Cardiff Central is the latest welcome recipient of a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund. This award will make an incredible difference to their work and those that rely upon it within our communities of Llanederyn and Pentwyn. Glenwood are building a `Wellbeing Space’ by adding a…

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Visit to the Newly Redeveloped Gassy’s Bar

Visit to the Newly Redeveloped Gassy’s Bar – 14 May 2018 I was pleased recently to visit Gassy’s bar on Salisbury Road in Cathays to see behind the scenes of the £250,000 investment five months on from its re-launch. We are lucky to have such a vibrant mixture of pubs and bars in Cardiff…

Universal Credit – What You Need To Know

Universal Credit – What You Need To Know – 7 Feb 2018 Universal Credit is being phased into Cardiff, starting this month. It is a new, single monthly payment to replace the following benefits and tax credits: Housing Benefit Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance Income-related Employment and Support Allowance Income Support Child Tax…

Unfair Sainsbury’s Contract Changes: Joint Letter to Theresa May

Unfair Sainsbury’s Contract Changes: Joint Letter to Theresa May – 22 May 2018 I have joined a number of my Parliamentary colleagues in writing to the Prime Minister to ask that she stands up for the hardworking Sainsbury’s employees who are set to lose out because of unfair contract changes.…

UCU strike action: my exchange of correspondence with Cardiff University Vice Chancellor Prof Colin Riordan

UCU strike action: my exchange of correspondence with Cardiff University Vice Chancellor Prof Colin Riordan – 6 March 2018 As more and more University Vice Chancellors depart from Universities UK’s plan to slash University staff pensions which is at the heart of the dispute, I have been in correspondence with Cardiff…

Trussell Trust Annual Foodbank Data and the Impact of Universal Credit

Trussell Trust Annual Foodbank Data and the Impact of Universal Credit – 24 April 2018 The Trussell Trust have today launched their annual foodbank stats alongside a report into Foodbank’s experience of Universal Credit. In Cardiff, between April 2017 and March 2018, 11480 three day emergency food supplies were given to people facing crisis by…

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