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Wiltshire Council has issued a £400 fixed penalty notice (FPN) to a Swindon resident who paid an unlicenced person to dispose of their domestic waste. The waste was subsequently fly-tipped in a layby in Winterbourne Monkton, near the Avebury World Heritage Site, and was inspected by Environmental Enforcement Officers.

Wiltshire Council will be seeking to work with a specialist contractor to help deliver energy efficiency measures to up to 175 existing homes in the county.

Wiltshire Council has awarded a contract worth £3m per year to Spurgeons to provide new family hubs in communities throughout the county.

Families with children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND) and those accessing alternative provision are invited to help shape services in the future

A Melksham landmark will take on a new role from autumn 2024 as final preparations are on course for it to open as a school for special educational needs.

Wiltshire Council is increasing its partnership working with Wiltshire Police to conduct roadside checks on people carrying waste in order to disrupt and prosecute fly-tippers. These people are breaking both stay at home government guidance and fly-tipping laws.

Wiltshire Council has released revised information for employers and parents after updated government guidance on child employment.

99% of Wiltshire families have been offered one of their three primary school preferences for this September with 94% offered their first preference.

Wiltshire Council is offering an incentive scheme to cover the additional costs incurred by the early years providers who have remained open for vulnerable children and children of key workers.