Dorset Council welcomes the Chancellor’s spending round announcement to increase funding for council-run services. These include adult social care and services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). On Wednesday this week, Chancellor Sajid Javid promised access for councils across the country to £1.5bn new funding for social care, and an additional £700m to… Read more Dorset Council welcomes government’s spending round announcement
An oil spill training exercise will be held in Weymouth next week.
Clean-ups of Radipole Lake have taken place this summer.
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has published a report after an investigation found that Dorset County Council had failed to provide suitable provision for a child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Work on the new sea defence wall along West Bay Esplanade will begin again on Monday. (2/9)
Dorset’s Digital Champions are ready to help you store and share those photos taken on your summer holidays.
Hanna Baxter, 18, has received a national award in recognition of her work with young people in care.
In July, Cllr Andrew Parry, our portfolio holder for Children, Education and Early Help, wrote to the Secretary of State, Gavin Williamson MP, and asked the Government to delay turning Weymouth’s Budmouth College into an academy. The letter was sent after a motion was put to Full Council and agreed by councillors. Cllr Parry has… Read more Secretary of State replies to Cllr Parry about Budmouth College
The weekend will be packed with activities for Pokémon trainers of all ages.
Dorset Highways maintenance gangs are out across the county continuing to repair road damage.
Anyone wishing to work on the highway will soon have to apply for a permit to carry out work on Dorset roads.
Three busy roundabouts on the Blandford Bypass will be closed in succession for surfacing works in early September.
Over the next couple of weeks, the footway will be open for a reduced period. The reduced opening hours are because one of two operators is on leave. Normal opening times of 6am to 1am the following day will begin on Wednesday 14 August.
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Temporary signals set up at the Studland Road junction to help keep drivers safe will stay in place while the Sandbanks Ferry is repaired.
A Dorset landowner has been prosecuted and fined after failing to rectify a serious breach of planning control within the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
We’ve been on site at Durweston for just over four months and the work is continuing to progress according to schedule.
This letter has been sent to the Secretary of State for Education following the motion that was approved at Full Council on 18 July.
Four new recruits have joined Superfast Dorset’s army of Digital Champions.
Love it or hate it, common ragwort is thriving this time of year, and it looks beautiful throughout Dorset. But it is a plant which people either love or hate. Owners of livestock spend many hours each year pulling ragwort from their paddocks and fields to remove it and avoid allowing it to take seed. … Read more Ragwort – do you love it or loathe it?
We have sent household enquiry forms for the electoral register to all residential properties in Dorset. Look out for an envelope addressed ‘To the occupier’.
A paper is being presented to Dorset Council cabinet on 30 July which will ask members to support the council entering into a funding agreement with Homes England which will secure up to £6,310,000 of Housing Infrastructure Funding (HIF).
A report being presented to Dorset Council Cabinet on 30 July outlines its financial position and forecasts at the end of the first quarter of the financial year.
So July, how did we get here already? I think I’ve stumbled through June in a haze of sleep deprived semi consciousness. Why ? Because my lovely cat decided to give birth to three kittens under my foster son’s bed. During a visit from his case social worker no less.
Last week Dorset council voted to support Safe Passage (Dorset), provided that the government fully funds the programme.
Dorset authorities are asking residents to look out for signs of county lines and help protect young people from being exploited by criminals this summer.
Dorset Highways maintenance gangs are out across the county continuing to repair road damage.
Two schools in East Dorset have been recognised for their work in raising the achievement of students as a result of pupil premium funding.
Patrol officers in Weymouth have spent hundreds of hours on the beat to improve community safety.
The new unitary authorities of Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council have signed the Dorset Armed Forces covenant.
Our surface dressing highway fixers are still in north Dorset reviving tired, rural roads by improving skid resistance and protecting them from water damage.
