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Please follow the link below for LATCH’s Annual Report 2019. It was a busy and productive year for t ...

A very warm welcome to the all new newsletter from LATCH! We know just how important it is to keep in touch with our supporters, and we hope that this new newsletter will be a great way for us to keep you in the know.

This is the first issue of what we hope will be many, and our aim will be to adapt and improve the newsletter so that we can give you as much recent news and updates on future events as we can. We hope you like the layout and content of this new format.

Welcome and thank you for your support!

We are doing everything we can to ensure that the service our LATCH families have come to rely on, remain in place now, and in the future.

Your support of LATCH is more important now than ever before, not only so that we are able to to continue delivering our crucial services at this time, but also to ensure that we are still able to be here when all this is over.

Following consultation with stakeholders at every level of the Children’s Hospital for Wales, state of the art plans for the ward have been drawn up which include the creation of extra single-unit beds to give back families’ dignity and privacy and to enable the ward to cope better with infections and the regular need to have a child placed in isolation. Plus, a new, large playroom is planned, with a family room directly opposite to enable families to completely break away from the stresses and strains of the ward.