At times of great personal hardship, many of us would turn to our relatives and friends for guidance and a helping hand. What would you do if you and your family didn’t have this choice?
Safe Families for Children is a brand new approach to this problem which uses trained volunteers to offer simple but really innovative solutions for families in need. It represents Nottingham City Council’s commitment to Early Intervention, proactively supporting families at their time of need to reduce the number of children ending up in care. Volunteers needed.
Up to 170 new jobs are being created at the new Northgate Public Service business centre in Bulwell which was officially opened on Wednesday.
The new business centre, which has resulted from a partnership between Northgate and Nottingham City Council, will provide cost-effective document services, such as scanning and mailroom services, to the City Council and other government offices including central government departments, police and health care organisations throughout the UK. The new collaboration should save the Council £6 million.
Owners of the Khyber Pass restaurant on Gregory Boulevard, Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on September 23rd after earlier pleading guilty to a number of breaches of food hygiene regulations. The pair were both handed a four-month jail term, suspended for 12 months. They were fined £200 per victim – a total of £28,400 – and face court costs of £25,700.
Nottingham’s Council House hosted a national conference on smart card transport ticketing this week and transport experts from the City Council and NET were key speakers.
This annual Transport Card Forum event took place Nottingham for the first time in over 10 years on Wednesday and Thursday this week and attracted transport operators and council representatives from all over the country and even from other European countries.
Green-fingered pupils at Oak Field School are celebrating double success in the garden. They have won the Nottingham in Bloom Best School Grounds competition for the second year running – and also picked up the East Midlands in Bloom trophy for the best wildlife garden in the region’s schools.
The special school – on Wigman Road in Bilborough – encourages all its pupils to engage with the outdoors.
