Plans are being drawn-up to build a new home for Dorset children.
The new home in Weymouth will give up to five Dorset children a better and more secure start in life.
The new building will be an asset to Dorchester Road. It will be designed to complement the area’s existing...
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Boscombe food bank in Havilland road has seen a record usage of its service since it started and the Government is being blamed for the higher levels.Â
Since the Corona Virus lockdown started numbers of people using the charity have risen from 541 to 1093 in just one month. What’s more the figures include over 300 children going without food.
The Food bank, local Councillors and...
Ghanaian students studying in Bournemouth University are living in a hopeless situation as the UK government continue to impose strict measures towards fighting the novel Coronavirus currently spreading across the globe. A telephone interaction with some of these students mostly living on their own at various private and school accommodations, revealed hunger, difficulty...
Dorset Council’s Cabinet today approved plans to build a new residential care home, contact centre, activity space and residential accommodation for children and young people in the county.
Two sites in Weymouth are earmarked in the outline plans. One will be a purpose-built residential care home with a contact centre...
If we cannot smile at and with young people then all hope is gone.
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Children in Dorset are benefiting from much better help and protection and senior leaders have a clear understanding of what needs to improve, say Government inspectors.
Earlier this month, Ofsted looked at Dorset Council’s arrangements for children in need and those subject to a child protection plan. They looked at...
Local schoolboy Oliver Gill, 10, is set to return to the stage at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, having landed a part in English Touring Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth on Friday 31 May.
Oliver, a chorister at Christchurch Priory, who performed the iconic solo of The Snowman at...
Research reveals that what we spend has now overtaken what we earn for the first time in 30 years – and we’re turning to second jobs – side hustles - to make extra cash.
As austerity takes hold, the UK is working even harder to make ends meet and the...
Police are warning young people in the Poole and Purbeck areas over the dangers of misusing the drug Xanax.
Xanax, the brand name for the drug alprazolam, is a benzodiazepine – a controlled medicate used in some parts of the world to treat anxiety. It is not available in the...
