The Somerset Coroner is calling for better checks on mobility scooter drivers. Tatworth Pre-School has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. Somerset Council has been fined five hundred pounds over a series of delays in issuing a vulnerable child with a care plan. An ambulance worker from Barrington is preparing to scale the Three Peaks twenty-seven times in twelve days for charity....and more.
The Somerset Coroner is calling for better checks on mobility scooter drivers, following the death of a ninety-two-year-old woman in Taunton. Natalie Young died in April last year after being hit by a mobility scooter in a supermarket. After the inquest into her death, the Somerset Coroner wrote to the Department for Transport asking for better regulation of scooter users. The department says a new scheme is due to come in force by the summer that will be overseen by Driving Mobility.
Tatworth Pre-School near Chard has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. In a report, Inspectors highlighted how working in small groups had helped the children to deepen their concentration and knowledge.
Waste collections in Somerset will take place as normal on Bank Holiday Monday next week with collections as normal for the rest of the week. There will be no waste collections on Bank Holiday Monday, May 8th, with collections running one day late for the whole week.
Somerset Council has been fined five hundred pounds over a series of delays in issuing a vulnerable child with a care plan. It follows an investigation by the Social Care Ombudsman who has instructed Somerset Council to issue an apology and compensate the family for the distress caused.
A man from Somerset has returned to Ukraine for a third time. Steve Brooks is currently in the south of the country, helping to train medics on the front line.
More food parcels than ever before have been given out across the South West by the Trussell Trust. Nearly two-hundred-and-forty-eight thousand emergency food packages were provided to people in our region by the charity in the last twelve months. It's a forty-two per cent increase from last year.
An ambulance worker from Barrington near Ilminster is preparing to set what he believes will be a new record. Next month, Dean Lewis will attempt to scale the Three Peaks twenty-seven times in twelve days, raising money for charities that support emergency workers.
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