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.
Rt Hon...
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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...
It is time we adopted a much more intelligent approach if we want to find solutions to issues such as these. Blaming these young people has to end. Finding out why and providing the support is the way forward. As a Conservative area the age of blame and hypocrisy...
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...
