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To celebrate Social Work Week, Wiltshire Council will be running a series of events to bring together social workers to learn, connect, engage and debate the growing value that social work adds to society.

Wiltshire Council is delivering the Government's Holiday Activity and Food programme, known locally as FUEL, across the county during the Easter holidays.

Plans to create an additional 350 school places for SEND pupils at Silverwood School in Rowde are moving forward with key developments this month.

Young people from all over the county have joined together for the first ever Wiltshire Youth Council conference.

The free virtual event is for young people (aged 14+)

This year World Book Day is celebrating its 25th anniversary

Most people applied online, with 99% or 5195 submitted digitally, and just 58 paper applications

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.

Wiltshire Council is launching a year-long campaign involving schools, libraries and communities to encourage people of all ages to delve into reading. The Wiltshire Year of Reading starts today (27 September 2021) encouraging everyone from very young children to older adults to enjoy the written word.

The council funds 19 residents at Furlong Close, with 13 other residents funded by 12 other local authorities