Plymouth City Council is asking people to help them ensure the safety and well-being of children who are being cared for by someone who is not a direct relative.
If you or someone you know is looking after somebody else’s child this could be a private fostering arrangement and the Council need to know.
Private fostering is when a child under 16 (under 18 if they have a...
Employees across Plymouth are being offered ICT training to help hundreds of people get better skills for work.
Council leader Tudor Evans has written to organisations and companies in the city offering ICT training for employees who would like to get more confident around computers and online.
The initiative follows the Council’s own successful pilot scheme to improve basic...
A team of apprentices from Plymouth City Council have launched their bid to become apprenticeship team of the year.
Over the next six months they will be developing a community orchard near Lakeside Drive in Plymouth.
This bid is part of the Brathay Apprentice Challenge, the official search for the apprentice team of the year supported by the national apprenticeship service....
Rubbish bins and bags across the city will be getting stickers or tags as the countdown to the new rubbish and recycling rounds gets underway.
Waterproof stickers which have guidance on how and when to put out rubbish are being stuck onto thousands of bins ahead of a major reorganisation of the city’s rubbish and recycling rounds, which starts on 19 January.
New technology in the Council’s garage is helping to keep vehicles on the road rather than in the workshop.
Touch screen technology has now been installed at the vehicle maintenance workshop in Prince Rock, which spells the end of pens, paper and form-filling once the job has been done.
The technology allows the vehicle fitters to fill in job cards and to update and progress...
Local people are invited to attend an event which kicks off a month of health and wellbeing activities.
Jump Into January will launch at Plymouth’s Central Library on Saturday 10 January from 10am to 2pm.
This is Plymouth City Council’s Libraries Service’s first month-long programme of health and wellbeing events to kick start the New Year, in partnership with Plymouth...
Plymouth City Council has sold a five acre plot of land at Plymouth International Medical and Technology Park to HellermannTyton, securing existing jobs and the company’s future in Plymouth.
HellermannTyton is one of the leading suppliers of products for fastening, fixing and protecting cables, and has been operating a manufacturing site from their current location at Plymouth’s...
Plymouth City Council is putting on a special collection to pick up all the trees after the festive period is over.
For the first time ever, the Council will be picking up real trees after Christmas as part of a pilot scheme. The round will take place from the week beginning Monday 5 January and will run until Thursday 8 January.
Thousands of Christmas cards are being delivered to let people know what days their bins will be collected as part of a major reorganisation of the city’s rubbish and recycling rounds.
Seasons greetings combined with dates of new recycling and rubbish collection days are being sent out from this week to thousands of homes across the city ahead of the start of the new rounds on January...
A social enterprise will be opening up a new shop in Devonport, thanks to support from the Council’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund.
Bikespace will be opening its first shop and will sell electric bikes – or ebikes – as well as refurbished bicycles from its cycle recycling project already based in Devonport.
An empty shop in George Street has been brought back to life in...
