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Rough sleeping can be isolating, it can be frightening living moment to moment in a state of flight, fright and freeze.

The Prevention and Wellbeing team set up by Wiltshire Council in 2021 is celebrating its second anniversary. The team covers the whole of Wiltshire and are focused on promoting physical, mental and emotional health.

Unpaid carers are being invited to a free event packed with information to help them on their journey caring for a friend or family member for Carers Rights Day this year

Wiltshire Council has worked with contractor, Rigg Construction and employer's agent, Ridge and Partners, to build five social rent and shared ownership homes on a council-owned site at New Zealand Avenue, Salisbury.

You can now borrow activity tracker watches and blood pressure monitors for up to six weeks from Salisbury and Trowbridge libraries as well as the North and South mobile libraries.

With step 4 getting underway, council services will have measures in place to keep people safe

Wiltshire Council Libraries are encouraging families to take part in this year's wild-themed Summer Reading Challenge which aims to inspire children to read as much as they can.

Wiltshire Council will continue the process to seek a care provider for Furlong Close following the news Hft has withdrawn its earlier decision to close the site.

Residents at Furlong Close will continue to access care and support as usual while the future provision at the site is determined.

Wiltshire Council has been awarded £547,825 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) to continue its rough sleeper prevention work, which has seen the rehousing of 130 rough sleepers in the county over the past 12 months.