Dorset Council, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council and health partners are working with care providers across Dorset following the announcement that visiting relatives in residential care homes would be able to resume in time for Christmas.
Are you worried about not being able to go back to your previous employment? Do you care about people and want to make a difference?
Dorset Council has won funding from the government’s Next Steps to Accommodation programme to help tackle homelessness in the county.
A reshuffle of Dorset Council’s Portfolio Holder responsibilities has been completed by the Leader of the Council, Cllr Spencer Flower.
On 24 May the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHCLG) announced that £161m would be made available in 2020/21 for 3,300 homes for rough sleepers in the next 12 months. A month later, it was announced that a further fund of £105m to enable local authorities to best support the nearly 15,000 people placed… Read more Dorset Council submits £1.2m bid to support housing for homeless households in the county
You may have seen some coverage in the press recently about Dorset Council accommodating lots of rough sleepers in a couple of hotels on Weymouth seafront during the coronavirus pandemic. So what’s been happening and why?
As part of the efforts to help people leave hospital at the start of the outbreak, the Best Western Hotel Rembrandt on Dorchester Road in Weymouth and the Grange Hotel at Oborne, near Sherborne, offered accommodation for people not affected by coronavirus and who were medically fit to leave hospital.
Do you look after or support someone, who couldn’t manage on their own if you didn’t? It might be a relative, friend or neighbour with an illness, disability, mental health or an addiction. You might not even see yourself as a carer because you don’t get paid to help. It is estimated that 10% of… Read more Dedicated support available for unpaid carers during Covid-19 crisis
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many people are staying at home for long periods of time.
Like the rest of the country, and indeed much of the world, hundreds of thousands of Dorset residents – family, neighbours and friends are coming to terms with life as it is following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19).
We know that this is a very difficult time for everybody. All public sector workers are working very hard to keep essential services going as well as keeping residents and employees safe during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council and Dorset Council, we have already changed the way they work… Read more What’s PPE and who should be wearing it?
Find out what’s happening in Dorset to protect people who are at most risk from coronavirus (COVID-19).
These are the questions formally submitted by both the public and councillors at Tuesday’s Full Council meeting for February 2020, and the answers given. Questions submitted for Public Participation Period Question – submitted by Paul N Tomlinson, Chairman of the former Dorset, Poole & Bournemouth Local Access Forum Local access forums “Section 94 of the… Read more Full Council meeting: 18 February 2020 – Questions and answers
A consultation to help shape community safety priorities in the Dorset Council area is online now.
The Domestic Abuse (DA) Bill is being introduced to ensure Local Authorities offer help and support to anyone experiencing domestic violence and abuse. The Bill is expected to come in over the next 12 months. Local authorities in Dorset have always been committed to providing advice and support in the community, along with safe accommodation.… Read more New contract to help people experiencing Domestic Abuse
Through its Building Better Lives programme, Dorset Council is delivering new housing for vulnerable people in Purbeck. In the next stage of the plans for the former Middle School site in Worgret Road, Wareham, the temporary Relocatable Housing will be built in the new year. ESS Modular Ltd is the Principal Contractor for the construction… Read more Preparations to begin on former Middle School site in Wareham
Dorset Council is setting up a quarterly ‘Good Practice Award’ to celebrate the hard work of care and support professionals in the area and to highlight the opportunities of working in the sector. If you know of a care or support worker that goes that extra mile, we want to hear their story! We would… Read more Care and support good practice awards
Dorset Council is co-hosting an event showcasing local care and support projects available in Sturminster Newton and surrounding areas. The emphasis is on making care and support more local and available within the community and will feature developments and a public space showcasing a range of local and county-wide offers that support health and wellbeing.… Read more Keeping care and support local – a free information event
You may have seen articles in the local press recently about the financial position of Dorset Council. These have originated from reports that go to the Cabinet and various committees at the council, which monitor, scrutinise and decide on all income and spending of taxpayers’ money. Wednesday 30 October Yesterday, the Dorset Echo ran a… Read more Recent coverage of Dorset Council in the local press
Where you live can really affect your health and wellbeing, but there’s a financial cost too. In England alone, it’s estimated that poor quality housing costs the NHS £1.4 billion a year. That’s why Dorset Council is thinking differently about how to use land we own, under a programme called Building Better Lives. In the… Read more New care community for Bridport takes a step forward
My home is within a terrace and the neighbouring property became empty quite a number of years ago; forming part of an estate in probate. Over the years it was left unoccupied and the upkeep of the property was neglected by the firm of Solicitors in charge, resulting in its condition to deteriorate over time:… Read more The blight of an empty home – a true story
Dorset Council is highlighting the problem of long-term empty properties during Empty Homes Week, 23-29 September, in conjunction with the Empty Homes Network. Throughout the week the council will be highlighting the issue of empty homes and showing examples of how homes that have been left empty for a long time have been brought back… Read more Highlighting National Empty Homes Week
A Dorset sheep farmer has been prosecuted and fined after failing to adequately care for her animals and leaving dead sheep on her land. On 15 July 2019, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Karen Harper (aged 51) of Charlton Marshall, near Blandford, Dorset, was today sentenced with a Community Order to carry out 180 hours of… Read more Sheep farmer sentenced for animal cruelty
Events will be taking place across the county to keep unpaid carers connected with their communities as part of National Carers Week, which is between 10-16 June. Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make. It also helps people to… Read more Keeping carers connected
A refurbishment project is well underway at Weymouth Library. Dorset Council is working with partners and other agencies to bring together a range of services and teams into one shared building, as a ‘library and learning centre’. The library building in Great George Street in the town centre is being adapted to offer space for:… Read more Weymouth library transforming nicely
