Lyme Regis Town Council have joined forces with Visit Dorset, Dorset Council’s tourism team responsible for promoting the county, to create a new Visit Lyme Regis website that sits under the main Visit Dorset umbrella to support the town’s tourism industry and local economy.
Personal blog from Theresa Leavey, Director of Children’s Services Just as we might have been hoping that our children and young people can emerge from under the blanket of pandemic anxiety and concern that has placed at risk their carefree days of childhood so along rolls another ethereal risk in the cloak of Russia’s incursion… Read more Managing the realities of Global Conflict with our children
Dorset Local Resilience Forum (LRF) will be hosting several community resilience awareness raising sessions, running between 7 and 11 March 2022.
The council has made the difficult decision to advise all schools to close and has suspended many services for Friday as 100mph winds of Storm Eunice are predicted to hit the county.
Cabinet, Full Council and Committee meetings will resume in-person instead of online, which became the norm at the start of the coronavirus pandemic almost two years ago. The council will begin its return to in person meetings on 15 February with a Full Council meeting in the Council Chamber at County Hall, Dorchester. Some of… Read more Dorset Council to resume face-to-face meetings
Dorset Council has awarded two 18-month contracts for voluntary and community organisations.
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is held annually on 27 January to remember the millions of people who died during the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution, and in the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where more than a million people… Read more Holocaust Memorial Day – a time for remembrance and reflection
Family and friends will become a vital resource this winter as adult social care experiences unprecedented pressures.
Schools across Weymouth and Portland are bringing seasonal cheer to older residents across the area with a video of Christmas readings from their students. Fourteen schools have contributed to the video which has been put together by Dorset council so it can be shared with older residents who live in nursing and residential homes. Anna… Read more Schools bring the joy of Christmas to older residents
Dorset people are encouraged to get their booster, first or second jab at a site near them as the health and care system expands its Covid-19 vaccination programme. The most vulnerable and at risk people (those aged over 70, clinically extremely vulnerable or working in health and care) have been receiving their booster jab since September… Read more Get boosted now as Dorset vaccination programme ramps up
The Dorset health and care system is pulling out all the stops to expand the vaccination programme as quickly as possible following the Prime Minister’s announcement late Sunday. And system leaders are asking local people to be patient while they get everything in place as the NHS continues to deliver the largest vaccination programme in… Read more We’re in this together as Dorset vaccination programme expands
A proposal to expand Beaucroft School and increase provision for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities has been approved by Dorset Council’s Cabinet today (7 December).
Dorset Council is looking for people who would be willing to foster or provide supported lodgings for unaccompanied children.
Dorset Council is delighted to be working with the Department for Education (DfE) on a new special free school for Weymouth & Portland.
Dorset Council is proud to announce that two social workers from the area were shortlisted for prestigious awards in recognition of their extraordinary support for adults.
Dorset Council is asking parents and carers, including family members and Foster Carers to help us understand the needs when it comes to childcare provision for children 0-14 years old.
The number of requests for help with finding home care are growing daily at #HelpAndKindness.
Dorset Council has awarded two, 5-year contracts to voluntary and community organisations to continue with the provision of support, advice and guidance to residents.
At 11.00am on Saturday 14 August, a small group gathered at the Kohima War Memorial at County Hall in Dorchester to mark the 76th anniversary of Victory in Japan (VJ) Day and remember all those who died in the Second World War in Asia. A minute silence was observed.
Dorset Council’s Cabinet agreed to adopt a new strategy to tackle the pressures of homelessness and rough sleeping in the area at their meeting today, Tuesday 27 July.
This safeguarding week (21 – 25 June) Dorset Council and BCP Council are working together with the newly appointed Joint Independent Chair of the Dorset Safeguarding Adults Board and the Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole Safeguarding Adult Boards, Siân Walker-Mcallister, to highlight the importance the role of safeguarding plays.
Carers Week is an annual, national event held to raise awareness of, recognise and value unpaid carers. Running from 7-13 June, Carers Week shines a light on the thousands of unpaid carers there are in the UK. Across the UK today, an estimated 6.5 million people or 1 in every 8 are carers and this… Read more Supporting Dorset Carers: Carers Week 2021
Dorset Council is thanking volunteers for the difference they make this Volunteers Week which runs from 1-7 June.
Dorset Council has exceeded its target for providing new-build affordable housing in the county over the last 12 months.
There is good news for families across Dorset following the government’s announcement of plans for care home residents to have a named single visitor from 8 March.
The views of anyone who accesses or works in day centres across the Dorset Council area, have one month left to submit their questionnaires about What makes a good day? – in a first-of-its-kind survey for day services.
Dorset Council is working with the care sector across the county to support them in keeping residents and staff safe during the COVID-19 pandemic
How people with social care needs spend their day is at the heart of a new programme being launched by Dorset Council this week.
Dorset Council, in partnership with Public Health England, is launching a locally supported contact tracing system for the Dorset Council area.
Dorset Council, BCP Council and health partners are reminding relatives of people in care homes and supported living to contact providers directly before visiting, amidst rising cases of COVID-19 in the local community.
