Local news

Hate Crime Awareness week October 2018

Thursday 19th July 2018

Hate Crime Awareness week is from 13-20th October 2018...

Draft statutory guidance on RSE and health education

Wednesday 18th July 2018

Draft guidance is published today to make sure education prepares young people for life in the modern world...

Train Like a Jedi with Change4Life

Wednesday 4th July 2018

Are your kids ready to Train Like A Jedi this Summer? Calling all friends of the Resistance! Public Health England (PHE) and Disney UK have launched a brand new national Change4Life programme – Train Like A Jedi – to help kids get active and inspire a new generation of Resistance recruits...

Staff wellbeing survey and guidance

Tuesday 3rd July 2018

Wiltshire schools can use this survey and guidance to enhance their wellbeing provision...

The child obesity plan and schools

Sunday 1st July 2018

During the last week Chapter 2 of the Childhood Obesity Plan has been published, which can be read here...

National news

Rise in type 2 diabetes in young people in England and Wales

Saturday 18th August 2018

Child health experts say the rise is "alarming" and more should be done to reduce obesity...

Woman killed and three injured in Anglesey crash

Saturday 18th August 2018

She died at the scene while a man was seriously injured and another woman and child had minor injuries...

NYU offers free tuition for all its medical students

Friday 17th August 2018

The New York medical school will fund all students, due to fears of graduates' "overwhelming" debt...

Body scanners and sniffer dogs to target prison drugs

Friday 17th August 2018

Funding aims to boost security and conditions at prisons in England with the most "acute problems"...

Prisons minister Rory Stewart: I'll resign if drugs and violence don't go down

Friday 17th August 2018

Rory Stewart gives himself a year to reduce the level of drugs and violence in England's prisons...