Staffordshire County Council
People looking to improve their health and wellbeing are being urged to be cautious of quick fix diet scams and to only rely on trusted health advice sources. Staffordshire County Council’s Trading Standards service is encouraging people not to waste their money on ineffective diet or weight loss products. Typical scam items include diet pills, […]
Highways crews in Staffordshire, had a great Christmas surprise, with the delivery of 24 brand new fleet vehicles. The new vehicles include 18 7.5 tonne tippers, 5 ‘hotboxes’ which can store hot bitumen ready for use on the county’s roads, and one 18 tonne tipper. Taking into account the requests of the crews on the […]
Members of the public are being urged to help identify key species that should be prioritised for conservation within Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. This initiative is part of the plans to develop a new long-term strategy to recover, protect and enhance nature and wildlife. Led by Staffordshire County Council, the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for […]
An extra £50 million will be invested in maintaining and improving Staffordshire’s highways over the next three years, alongside a total of £53 million being spent on a range of major projects in 24/25. This extra investment will see 34 road reconstruction schemes planned to be completed between 2024 and 27, plus more than 450 […]
Nine out of 10 parents will learn today (Friday) that they have been allocated their first-choice secondary school in Staffordshire. Of the 8,482 offers made for a Staffordshire secondary school at age 11, 90.8% per cent were for a first-choice school. National and regional average is around 83 per cent. Nearly 99 per cent have […]
With thousands of workers in Staffordshire expected to submit online self-assessment tax returns by 31 January, people are being urged to be wary of scams. Staffordshire County Council’s Trading Standards service is working with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), who have issued the warning. Criminals are using scam emails, texts, phone calls and even bogus […]
Staffordshire Residents looking for information about local services or support to deal with cost-of-living pressures can do so at Community Help Points across the county. Community Help Points assist people in accessing a variety of information, activities and resources to make everyday life easier, including -Using the internet to find important information. -Finding out where […]
Staffordshire County Council is making good on its promise to fix more roads across the county with 16,308 pothole repair jobs completed so far, which is already in excess of jobs completed last year Earlier this year, the council announced an investment of £30 million into maintaining and improving the county’s highways over the next […]
Almost 10,000 young people, aged between 8 and 17, enjoyed over 2,500 activities as part of the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Space programme this summer. There were over 22,000 attendances at events, equating to over 43,000 hours. The summer programme brings together public, voluntary and private sector organisations to provide fun, positive activities for vulnerable young people. […]