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£3.45 million funding boost for Carers Trust to support UK’s most vulnerable unpaid carersCarers Trust leads new programme to support over 13,500 carers worst affected by pandemic Carers Trust is pleased to announce it is working with 25 programme partners to use £3.45 million of funding to boost support for over...

Mummy Pig’s Had Enough

For all of those bewildered mums and grown up children across the nation:
Dorset Council issues the licences needed by businesses wishing to employ people aged 13 to 16. The council recently became the first in the country to replace its paper-based Child Work Permit process with a slick digital system. Traditionally the process was cumbersome, time-consuming and fraught with potential problems. The application...
  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...
Ministers are optimistic that COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to all 12 to 15-year-olds despite advisers failing to recommend it. The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said on Friday that, while it would widen the programme to include more children in that age group with health conditions, it...
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If you have encountered UK children’s social services you may think that they are ‘child snatchers’. Wrong. The Child Snatcher in Chief is in fact UK Prime Minister Theresa May, the unelected head of Her Majesty’s Government. Let’s discuss this at length and you will fully understand what I...

Baby Steps

Healthwatch Dorset have published a new report about maternity services in Dorset, called Baby Steps.   Healthwatch Dorset spoke to over 100 local women and their families to find out what it's really like when you have a baby in Dorset. They organised two events in Boscombe, ran a facebook survey and...
When grown-up children leave home – for jobs or university – it can be a difficult time for some parents. The house can be just too quiet, too empty. Dorset County Council suggests this could be the perfect time for people to consider opening their doors to a vulnerable child...