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...
Greenhill and Sandsfoot Gardens in Weymouth have been recognised by the Green Flag Award scheme as being amongst the very best green spaces in the world.
The Green Flag Award scheme recognises and rewards well managed parks and open spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the United Kingdom and around...
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...
Care leavers in Dorset will not have to pay council tax until they are 25.
Dorset Council’s Cabinet has agreed that young people who have spent time in foster or residential care will be exempt from paying council tax until the age of 25 if they live alone or given...
Following a conference in Weymouth on Saturday 28th September in which distinguished academics and GP's presented very disturbing quantitative and qualitative data to reveal the desperate situation that Weymouth & Portland is in economically and socially it was announced that Weymouth & Portland Action on Wages will now present...
ESFA admits to redacting information about Aspirations Academy for fear of ‘damaging public confidence…’
Dorset Council are now voicing their own concerns.
Dorset Council’s second letter requesting that the Secretary of State agree to a delay in the forced academisation process of Budmouth College in Weymouth was made public this week.
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In March 2015, Swansea University conducted an intensive study into students in the United Kingdom (UK) getting into sex work. "The Student Sex Work Project"Â revealed that a staggering one in 20 students across the country, opted to join the sex industry, 56% of...
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...
