Five years ago, Audit Wales flagged the culture within cyngor Gwynedd as 'destructive'.   https://www.wao.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/ffordd_gwynedd.pdf At the recent extraordinary meeting of the full council, councillors Nia Jeffreys and Olaf Cai Larsen spoke of staff feeling safe to challenge.  Irony indeed - speaking to a full council meeting where councillors had been 'advised' not to challenge... The webcast of the meeting can be found here -  https://gwynedd

Stephen Wood, manager of the Gwynedd and Ynys Mon Youth Justice Service presented his report to the care scrutiny committee on the 29th, January, 2026. The webcast of the meeting can be found here -  https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1060285 There appears to be a change of culture within the service that coincides with a big drop in the numbers of young people being criminalised through the courts.  Wood informed that the short, sharp shock tactics d

2025 was yet another Annus Horribilis for cyngor Gwynedd... Jan Pickles had began her extended CPR whilst the children's SS was avoiding proper scrutiny of this complaint -    Sshh... Two complaints about the education department were also not properly scrutinised. The cabinet member did not offer an explanation to the complaint about the assessment and skipped the meeting where the lack of response to a safeguarding concern was presented.    School absences remained high wit

Cyngor Gwynedd cancelled the Care Scrutiny committee that was to be held on the 20th November. The agenda pack for the meeting can be found here - https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g5651/Public%20reports%20pack%2020th-Nov-2025%2010.30%20Care%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=10 A Task and Finish group is being setup to examine social services complaints. Has there been an investigation? Elliw Haf Hughes, is named as the Assistant Head of Safeguarding and Quality (no

Sally Holland, former children's commissioner, spoke at the full cabinet meeting of cyngor Gwynedd held on the 11th November, 2025. As the chair of the council's response board, set up after the abuse of children by Neil Foden, Holland presented the - QUARTERLY REPORT TO CABINET: RESPONSE PLAN PROGRAMME BOARDwhich can be found here -   https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=46340    The webcast of the cabinet meeting can be viewed here -  https://gwynedd.p

The Extended Child Practice Review, by Jan Pickles, into Neil Foden and his abuse of children in Gwynedd has finally been published. An 'extended' CPR is undertaken when children were receiving care from the council at the time of the abuse. This care will presumably involve social workers of the children's SS, the 16+ team, the fostering team and perhaps youth justice - and no-one noticed...? "We're employed to do a job, and that job is keeping children safe. In this case, Y

The Gwynedd Child Practice Review into paedophile headteacher Neil Foden, first due in early Spring, then late Spring, then September has...

Whose job is it to keep children in Gwynedd safe from predators like Neil Foden? While Garem Jackson is holed up at home refusing to...

With regard to the previous post, the Corporate Director of Cyngor Gwynedd council SS departments, Morwena Edwards, has given her...

At a Cyngor Gwynedd council Care Scrutiny Committee meeting of November 14th, 2019, the senior Complaints manager, Dafydd Paul, told...