It is here, our annual Liftshare week!
Fancy doing your bit and helping us in our bid to tackle climate change? Join us in our annual Liftshare week and turn your daily commute into something much more enjoyable.
Affordable housing boost for Beaminster
A development of 38 homes in Beaminster is set to go ahead as a wholly affordable scheme following a Dorset Council meeting.
Children’s Advice and Duty Service: providing the right help at the right time
Professionals in Dorset with concerns about a child can now pick up the phone and talk to a social worker, rather than fill out a referral form.
Highway works to return to Purbeck
Planned work on roads in the Purbeck area will start up again, following the lifting of an embargo.
Dorset Council sets out proposed priorities
Dorset Council Cabinet has approved its draft Council Plan outlining the organisation’s aspirations and priorities for the next four years.
Dorset residential home for children rated as ‘good’ by inspectors
A residential home for children with complex learning difficulties and disabilities has been rated ‘good’ by Ofsted inspectors. The Cherries, run by Dorset Council, is based in Weymouth and provides long-term accommodation for up to nine children. Ofsted visited the home in August and looked at the following areas: • the experiences and progress of… Read more Dorset residential home for children rated as ‘good’ by inspectors
Meet your new patrol officers (and follow them on social media!)
Meet your new patrol officers who are working to make Weymouth even safer.
Dorset Council condemns geese killings
Seven Canada Geese carcasses have been found dumped on Dorset Council’s Blackdown Nature Reserve, near Hardy Monument. The birds were killed and had their breasts removed sometime overnight on 29 September. The remains of the birds were left in a ditch, believed to be the work of poachers. Cllr Ray Bryan, Dorset Council’s portfolio holder… Read more Dorset Council condemns geese killings
Cabinet agrees council tax exemption for young people leaving care
Care leavers in Dorset will not have to pay council tax until they are 25.
