Sue McDonald

Major investment approved for city schools

A huge programme of school improvement works at three city schools will get under way this year.

The building works totalling £1,184,500 have been approved by Council Leader Tudor Evans from the City Council’s Investment Board, to meet the cost of urgent building improvement works at Mount Tamar, Mount Wise Primary and Compton Primary Schools.

All three schools need urgent...

2015 SW School chef of the year winner

Seven chefs have battled it out in a cook-off to be crowned a South West School Chef of the Year.

Plymouth’s own Sharon Cundell, from St Edward’s Church of England Primary School in Eggbuckland, went up against six other chefs from the region for the Lead Association for Catering in Education, South West School Chef of the Year title.

Sharon was up against Katie Cooper from...

Could you be a school governor?

Plymouth City Council is working with education charity, SGOSS- Governors for Schools to try and reduce the number of school governor vacancies in the city. At the moment there are more than 50 vacant governor positions across schools and colleges in Plymouth.

Although 75 per cent of Plymouth’s Schools were recently deemed by Ofsted to be amongst the best in the country this appeal is...

Council set to outsource £2million social care contract

Changes to how Plymouth's social care reablement services are delivered are to be considered by the City Council.

In partnership with the Western Locality NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), the City Council Cabinet will decide whether to award a contract worth approximately £2 million a year, at a meeting on Tuesday September 3.

If approved, the reablement team...