Hundreds of Sandwell childcare professionals attended a special award ceremony evening to acknowledge and celebrate the hard work and high level of childcare in Sandwell. The celebration at WS10 Conference Centre in Wednesbury was organised by the Sandwell Family Information Service and Sandwell Quality Early Years and Childcare Team. The […]

People are being urged to shop local and support their borough high streets as part of this year’s Small Business Saturday campaign. The theme of this year’s national initiative is ‘find your local hero’ and Dudley Council will be supporting it with a social media advent calendar, celebrating local businesses. […]

A much-praised scheme to help dependent drinkers in Sandwell while easing the pressure on emergency services has won a top national award, the second in two months. A much-praised scheme to help dependent drinkers in Sandwell while easing the pressure on emergency services has won a top national award, the […]

Dudley Council is delivering waste collection calendars to all borough households ahead of 2020. Residents will see that their collection day remains unaltered but calendars have been designed to remind people when to place their waste out for collection. The calendars cover collection details for dark grey bins (non-recyclable waste), […]

A Sandwell Council employee has won a national award for her working in helping hundreds of people in the borough to lose weight. Maxine Dixon won the UK Public Health Practitioner Award for Improving Public Health Practice for the council’s much-praised Weight2GO programme. Maxine, who is a weight management project […]

There are free market stalls up for grabs for new and expanding businesses on Small Business Saturday. Dudley Council has partnered with Tudor Markets to offer a limited number of free market stalls on Dudley Market on Saturday December 7 to celebrate and promote the national initiative, which encourages people […]

City of Wolverhampton’s ‘Shop a tipper’ campaign has been announced as a winner in this year’s Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Excellence Awards. The CIEH Excellence Awards is the premier international awards scheme for recognising and celebrating excellence and achievement in environmental health. The awards highlight the individuals, organisations […]

Dudley Council is consulting on proposed changes to its council tax reduction (CTR) scheme which will streamline the process and particularly help claimants on Universal Credit (UC). CTR reduces the amount of council tax that low income households (including those claiming UC) have to pay to the local authority. Currently, […]

People in Birmingham are the most worried about money in the whole country, according to a nationwide study revealing the UK’s most financially stressed cities.     Birmingham came in first out of eleven major cities, ahead of London, Manchester and Glasgow. Forty-six per cent of Brummies say they have money worries, compared […]

Major construction will begin on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in the New Year. Councillors are set to sign off funding and contract agreements at a meeting next week (20 November). Work to prepare the site is already well advanced with the main building work set to start in January as […]