Nottingham City’s Health and Wellbeing Board wants to hear your views on how to make Nottingham City a happier and healthier place in which to live, as planning gets under way to develop the next Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Citizens’ views and opinions on improving health will enable the Board to understand which health and wellbeing issues are important to local people and this in turn will help to shape the next Strategy. To attend any of the events, register online at www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/HappierHealthierLives or telephone 0115 876 4336
Development of children under five has improved in Nottingham
New figures show that Nottingham has seen real improvement in the development of children under the age of five.
The Department for Education data shows that the city has closed the national gap significantly in the past year in the assessment that takes place at the end of the EYFS year, the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP).
Kathy Harwood, has been named the bestteaching assistantin the UK. Kathy, who has worked at the Nottingham City Council-run school at the Queen’s Medical Centre since 1995, was one of 11 teaching staff honoured at the Pearson Teaching Awards on Sunday.
Kathy was given her Gold Plato award by 2015 Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.
Three new short films have been produced by local filmmakers Dave Alexander Smith and David Stewart to showcase Wollaton Hall, Newstead Abbey and Nottingham Castle to potential visitors. The films have been funded by a one-off grant from the Arts Council, England.
Each is film is approximately one minute in length, and includes spectacular aerial footage – filmed using state-of-the-art drone technology – of the three historic buildings. The films also depict visitors exploring each of the heritage sites.
Nottingham City Council’s Adoption Service needs families to come forward to adopt children age four and over.
A new push is being launched by the council as part of National Adoption Week which runs from 19 to 25 October.
The Adoption Service is currently finding homes for 57 Nottingham children and 22 of them are over four years of age. Experience has shown that these 22 children will be the hardest to find loving, permanent homes for.
Work to build the city’s new cycle superhighway start on Monday, October 19th and will be completed by April 29th, 2016.
The Nottingham Cycle City Ambition Programme (NCCAP) is funded by the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, which approved the £6.1m funding on October 15th, 2015.
The Western Corridor is one of the new routes to be delivered by the NCCAP, linking the city centre to Woodside Road, Lenton. The most exciting feature of the route will be the construction of Nottingham’s first cycle superhighway, a high quality surface that gives a smooth ride and with signals that prioritise cyclists. The superhighway is segregated from other traffic to improve speed and safety.
