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...
25 Dorset young carers have been taken to see War Horse at Southampton’s Mayflower as a reward for their hard work and for some down time from their often demanding responsibilities.
There are currently 117 young carers in the county being supported by the Dorset Young Carers Service.
Over the past year, the...
Volunteers are needed to help Dorset County Council’s trading standards run test purchasing exercises.
Some products are age restricted to buy, such as cigarettes and alcohol. Trading standards are responsible for making sure retailers know all about these laws and do not sell these products to people under the legal age. One...
Achieving her Child Consultation Qualification, Christchurch Solicitor and Family Mediator Emma Hamilton Cole will be helping to involve children of divorcing and separating parents in the decision-making process.
Partner and Head of Family Law at Williams Thompson Solicitors LLP in Christchurch, Emma Hamilton Cole, has successfully completed her Child Consultation...
