Could you be ready to help when your community needs it most?
We're looking for dedicated, reliable people to become a Derbyshire Emergency Volunteer (DEV), working alongside the emergency planning team.
Derbyshire Emergency Volunteers help people evacuated from their homes during emergencies like fires, gas leaks and floods and to help people during severe weather and health incidents.
Our DEV volunteers work alongside our emergency planning team, adult care staff and other agencies to make sure evacuees have what they need while staying in an assistance centre.
What you will do:
- meeting and greeting
- registering evacuees
- refreshments
- signposting to other agencies for further support.
You don't need any experience – just a willingness to help and a calm head under pressure. Training will be provided.
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Do you or anyone you know use social care? Have you considered direct payments?
A direct payment is when we give you money instead of a service, when you're assessed by social care that you need extra help to live your life at home. You use it to buy your own care and support.
Many people with social care needs do not realise the benefits of receiving their support via a direct payment. Benefits include:
- you can arrange and manage your own care
- you can choose your personal assistant(s) yourself
- by arranging your own care you have more control over how your care needs are met
- support is often more flexible, to work around you.
We commission Blue Sky Brokers to provide tailored employment support and guidance for individuals managing direct payments, including:
- budget planning and supervision
- health and safety support
- staff training and development
- employment law advice
- contracts and job descriptions
- DBS checks and reference verification
- interviews, insurance and more.
A series of consultation events has been arranged to help people have their say on proposals to change the way adult education is delivered.
We want a range of views on options to ensure Derbyshire Adult Education Service is fit for the future and has the greatest impact on the lives of people who need the most support.
Changes to the way the service is funded provides an opportunity to look at how it could be more flexible and responsive, supporting even more people to gain qualifications to help them achieve.
We're encouraging residents to have their say by filling in an online questionnaire.
Paper copies can also be requested by emailing future.daces@derbyshire.gov.uk or ringing telephone: 01629 531241.
A series of drop-in events has been organised where people can get support from a member of staff to fill in the survey.
We are also consulting on home to school transport policies
We want your views on proposals to change travel policies for eligible school children aged 5 to 16, post-16 learners and students with special educational needs and disabilities.
Find out more about the home to school transport proposals and have your say
For help to fill in the online questionnaire or to request a paper copy please email admissions.transport@derbyshire.gov.uk or telephone 01629 537479.
- Both consultations run until midnight on Sunday 22 February 2026.
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