Category: Children’s services

513 Children’s services posts found.

3,000 Shropshire children set to benefit from summer holiday activities programme

05/08/2021
Bridge Youth Centre holiday activities

Shropshire Council is working with 31 organisations including local schools, voluntary and community groups, and childcare providers, to run an exciting programme…

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News from our partners: Health chiefs issue warning as childhood respiratory infections rise in the West Midlands ahead of winter

23/07/2021

News from our partners Public Health England • Respiratory infections in young children have begun to rise out-of-season, following low infection levels…

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News from our partners: Learn Cycling to train new instructors

20/07/2021
people learning to ride bicycles

News from our partners Learn Cycling A local cycle training organisation have recently secured funding to train up to four new cycling…

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Remembering Srebrenica: Shropshire children dress memorial cherry tree in ceremony

13/07/2021
(l to r) Lois Dale (Shropshire Council's rurality equality specialist), Wing Commander Turner, Mark Michaels, Reverend Ken Chippindale, Imam Sohayb Peerbhai; and children of Mereside School.

Local children have helped to dress a very special memorial cherry tree with flower and leaf promises, in a ceremony outside Shirehall…

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Hundreds of Shropshire schoolchildren to benefit from balance bike training

08/07/2021

An additional 2000 Shropshire schoolchildren will benefit from Bikeability Balance – free balance bike training – thanks to a successful bid by…

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Programme of free summer holiday activities for children published

07/07/2021

A programme of summer holiday activities taking place across Shropshire – which will be free for eligible children– has been published on…

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Coronavirus; Extension of COVID-19 Local Support Grant for vulnerable families

23/06/2021

The Government has announced a further and final extension of the COVID-19 Local Support Grant for vulnerable families. In Shropshire the funding…

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Coronavirus: Statement on COVID-19 outbreak at Minsterley Primary School 

23/06/2021

Shropshire Council is working with Public Health England (West Midlands) following confirmation of a small number of COVID-19 cases linked to a primary school in Minsterley. …

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A new vision for people living with a learning disability and autistic people launched locally

15/06/2021

News from our partners: Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Integrated Care System (ICS) The health care system in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin has developed…

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Carers Week 2021 – story from a young carer

11/06/2021
Carers Week logo

Carers Week is an annual awareness campaign that celebrates and recognises the vital contribution of the UK’s unpaid carers – supporting family…

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