News and communications

Young people arriving from Ukraine are being offered information on choices post-16 to support them into education, employment or training while living in Wiltshire.

Wiltshire Council has worked with local childminders and activity providers to create a childcare and activity directory to help parents find childcare during the school holidays this summer.

Nineteen schools in Wiltshire have received a bronze Wiltshire Year of Reading award and four have received a bronze and silver award.

Wiltshire Council has teamed up with Inspiring Governance to help schools in Wiltshire to find people to become school governors.

Preliminary works for the Salisbury River Park project are now complete. Work began in January to prepare the site ahead of the main construction work which will start in June.

An improved Elm Grove play area in Trowbridge has been reopened following refurbishment work by Wiltshire Council.

School children from three primary schools in Trowbridge have been celebrating safer walking, cycling and scooting routes to and from school along Hilperton Road on a special walk to school day event.

Wiltshire Council is seeking feedback from taxi drivers and the general public on proposals to change the county's taxi licensing zones.

Wiltshire Council is reminding people that all parking restrictions and car parking charges remain in place across the county on Saturday 7 May.

Wiltshire Council successfully delivered the Government's Holiday Activity and Food programme to over 1,800 young people during four weeks of the summer holidays. The programme, which aims to provide children eligible for benefits related free school meals with free access to high quality activities and nutritious meals, was delivered across Wiltshire using the brand FUEL and was funded by the Department for Education.