The first residents have started moving into Cambrian Green Court in Yate – South Gloucestershire Council’s first multi-million pound extra care housing development. Councillor Matthew Riddle and staff from Cambrian Green Court met some of the new residents on Friday 28th January, including Eric Ball, who has moved there from Frome House, a care home in Yate. Cllr Riddle took
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Anyone with an MP3 player can now download hundreds of audiobooks for free from a new service available through public libraries in South Gloucestershire and across the region by visiting the Libraries West website. Choose from over 600 titles, which can be downloaded for three weeks to a PC, mobile phone or MP3 player. All titles are unabridged and available
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South Gloucestershire Council is continuing its fight against fly-tipping and littering – which costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds each year to clean up – following the successful prosecution of four individuals for committing related offences. Following an investigation, the council brought a prosecution against John Cox, of Redfield Hill, Oldland Common after he fly-tipped six bags of waste
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Dear Editor, On the same day in December that the Conservative-led government published its plans for the Big Society (the Localism Bill) and announced how much money it was (or wasn’t) giving local councils, another announcement was quietly slipped out. This announcement related to the winding up of a scheme called the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The ILF was established
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A new man has taken charge of South Gloucestershire CID. Detective Chief Inspector Ian Norrie is the permanent replacement for DCI Stephen Tunks, who retired in 2010. Policing is in DCI Norrie’s blood, as both his father and grandfather served in the Metropolitan police. Ian said: “I always thought I would like to follow in their footsteps and joined Surrey
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Over 3,000 of South Gloucestershire’s poorest pupils could benefit from a £1.3m funding boost. As part of its annual budget consultation with schools, South Gloucestershire Council has indicated to schools how each of them are likely to benefit from the Coalition Government’s flagship ‘pupil premium’, which aims to target extra resources at the most disadvantaged school children. The ‘pupil premium’
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South Gloucestershire Council has been recognised as a model of good practice for the way it supports young people leaving care. The National Care Advisory Service (NCAS), which is the national advice, support and development service focusing on young people’s transition from care, has awarded the council a Quality Mark in recognition of its commitment to offering a high standard
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South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative Leader John Calway met recently with Prime Minister David Cameron at a reception hosted at 10 Downing Street, and discussed the Government’s proposals to give more power to councillors and local residents in South Gloucestershire. The Government’s Localism Bill will lay the foundations for the Big Society by radically transforming the relationships between central government, local
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South Gloucestershire Council’s building control service has introduced a range of measures to make the service even more efficient, easier to use and greener. The service is responsible for checking plans and the inspection of work so that it complies with building regulations. These are legal requirements laid down by the government that aim to ensure adequate standards for the
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Residents in South Gloucestershire are increasingly taking advantage of being able to choose individually tailored, social care services under the “direct payments” initiative. Direct payments are designed to give people who have been assessed as requiring social care, and their carers, complete control over how services are provided. Rather than the council deciding what care and support services it believes
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