YOUNG HIGHWAYS GRADUATES AND APPRENTICES HIT THE GROUND RUNNING
Meet the fresh-faced recruits who have hit the ground running in St Helens Borough Council’s Highways and Infrastructure department. A mixture of graduates, apprentices and recently finished work experience students, the group have come in for high praise for their work in the ongoing delivery of a number of strategic projects around active travel, walking and […]
BLOG: “Involving children in consultation, planning and decision-making, is a must-do”
Hearing what residents think about Council-run services and the services they would like to see in the future is very important to us. And that includes listening to children and young people. Here, Cabinet Member for Employment, Educational Attainment and Skills Cllr Lila Bennett explains why the Liverpool Schools’ Parliament is such an important forum […]
Experience Manchester Libraries from the comfort of your home
Manchester Libraries have secured funding to create 3D walkthrough tours of all 22 Manchester Library venues. The £20,250 grant awarded from the Library On programme, and funded by Arts Council England, will allow the creation of virtual tours of all the Manchester library venues for the first time. It will give viewers an immersive experience, […]
DOUBLE SUCCESS FOR ADULT LEARNING TEAM
The Adult and Community Learning service (ACL) is celebrating double success for its service and learners. The service, which provides a range of courses including ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), maths and caring for children, to help people gain confidence and make steps towards further learning, volunteering opportunities and employment, has been rated […]
Council to continue with insourcing LiveWire services
Following Cabinet approval, the council is continuing preparations to insource leisure, libraries and lifestyle services provided by LiveWire, with a target date of March 2024. This latest approval, following initial Cabinet consent in July 2023 to progress plans to insource, gives clear direction that services run by LiveWire will ultimately be brought back into direct […]
Funding boost for fostering across Cheshire and Merseyside
Liverpool City Council is to be part of a new project to transform fostering recruitment and retention across Cheshire and Merseyside. The Council is one of eight local authorities – Warrington, Wirral, Knowsley, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and St Helens – that will deliver the programme over two years. Over £1million of […]
Warrington Local Plan 2021-2039 adopted by Council
Warrington’s Local Plan – which aims to deliver the homes, jobs, supporting infrastructure and community facilities the borough needs – has been formally adopted by the Council as the new Development Plan for the Borough. The Local Plan was adopted by Full Council at its meeting yesterday (Monday 4 December), following confirmation from the Independent […]
Cabinet to reaffirm commitment to insourcing LiveWire services
The council’s Cabinet faces a significant decision to confirm its intention to bring leisure, libraries and lifestyle services back in house. In July 2023, a report came to Cabinet which set out initial plans for the council to insource LiveWire services. This was subject to testing the market to assess whether there would be competition […]
ST HELENS GROWTH BOARD TO SUPPORT BOROUGH ECONOMY
Key figures representing various sectors across St Helens Borough came together for the inaugural meeting of the St Helens Growth Board. Business leaders joined St Helens Borough Council’s leadership and representatives from St Helens Chamber, Homes England, Torus and St Helens College to lay the foundations for a future brimming with growth and opportunity. The […]
Manchester launches five-year plan for Age-Friendly Manchester
A new Age-Friendly strategy, underlining Manchester’s direction of travel to push forward initiatives that understand and meet the needs of its older population, has been launched today. The strategy, ‘Manchester: a city for life 2023- 2028′ builds on the foundations of age-friendly work ongoing in the city for the last two decades. It sets out […]