Real Christmas trees available to buy from our award-winning Parks Team
Make your Christmas magical with a real Christmas tree from our award-winning Parks Team.
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Southend Pier smashed it over May half-term!
Southend Pier, the ever-popular attraction, has broken its record for Whitsun week with over 50,000 visitors.
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Southend’s unique Cliff Lift commemorated by the National Transport Trust
Southend’s unique and historic Cliff Lift has been commemorated by the National Transport Trust’s Red Wheel scheme.
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Cervical Screening Awareness: Are you up to date?
Southend-on-Sea residents are urged to get up to date with their cervical screening, that could save their lives.
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MBE for Services to Education for former head of early years
The retired head of early years at Southend-on-Sea City Council has been awarded an MBE for Services to Education.
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Council wants Southend to be a ‘refill destination’
The council are encouraging local businesses and residents to help the city become a ‘refill destination’ by providing greater access to drinking water as well as refill and reusable packaging.
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SEND Partnership welcomes Ofsted and CQC inspection findings
The multi-agency support being given to children and young people with special education needs and disabilities (SEND) in Southend-on-Sea, is improving but has inconsistencies.
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Unique metal recycling project sees £12,000 donated to Havens Hospices
Havens Hospices has received a £12,000 donation thanks to the council's Bereavement Services and the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM).
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Oh baby! ‘Bibs and Bobs’ baby bank is open to help with essentials
Families who need baby ‘Bits and Bobs’ for their children aged 0 to five should pop along to Southend Family Centres baby banks.
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Fully funded training available for careers in health and social care
We are delighted to announce that the Halo training programme has been awarded a contract for another 12 months with courses now being delivered in Basildon, Chelmsford, Thurrock and Southend.
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Argh ya ready to come aboard as a Southend foster carer?
Foster carers had a whale of a time, promoting the benefits of working with their local authority to foster, whilst exploring the open seas, aboard the El Galeon with the Blackwater Pirates.
