Wrexham council took over the running of the initiative in 2013 after former leader of the
Plas Madoc Communities First Project, Miriam Beard, was jailed for 32 months in 2011 for defrauding it out of PS51,000.
The scheme's credibility took a knock in October 2011 when Miriam Beard, coordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership in Wrexham, was jailed for 32 months after defrauding the body of more than PS53,000.
An evaluation report last year said: "While Communities First has retained its ethos of encouraging community involvement in the design, delivery and monitoring of the programme, genuine community participation is not always being achieved or is not being facilitated in a way that is of benefit to the implementation of the programme." The scheme's credibility took a knock in October 2011 when Miriam Beard, co-ordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership in Wrexham, was jailed for 32 months after defrauding the body of more than PS53,000.
It follows the scandal surrounding the
Plas Madoc Communities First scheme.
The scheme's credibility took a knock in October 2011 when Miriam Beard, then co-ordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership in Wrexham, was jailed for 32 months after defrauding it of over PS53,000.
Last year an evaluation report said: "While Communities First has retained its ethos of encouraging community involvement in the design, delivery and monitoring of the programme, genuine community participation is not always being achieved or is not being facilitated in a way that is of benefit to the implementation of the programme." The scheme's credibility took a knock in October 2011 when Miriam Beard, the co-ordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership in Wrexham, was jailed for 32 months after defrauding the body of more than PS53,000.
She admitted defrauding the
Plas Madoc Communities First Project of pounds 51,000 during her time as co-ordinator.
Communities First has recently been the subject of controversy after it emerged tens of thousands of pounds had been paid by the co-ordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First in Wrexham to her own family.
What is going to replace it?" In 2011, the former leader of the
Plas Madoc Communities First Project in Wrexham, Miriam Beard, was jailed for 32 months for defrauding the scheme out of PS51,000.
Miriam Beard had lied about her past to get a job as coordinator of the
Plas Madoc Communities First project, funded by the Welsh Government.
The Assembly Government's anti-poverty programme received a major blow earlier this week when it was revealed that tens of thousands of pounds had been paid by the co-ordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First in Wrexham to her own family.
Miriam Beard, formerly coordinator of
Plas Madoc Communities First, was jailed for fraud in 2011 after making more than PS53,000 from the organisation designed to help the local area.