News · 3 June 2025
Liverpool’s biggest annual event for parents, carers and professionals who work with children with SEND returns later this month. Now in its fifth year, SEND Local Offer LIVE is back at St George’s Hall on Wednesday 18 June and will bring together providers, organisations and professionals as well as families and carers at a dynamic
News · 2 June 2025
Liverpool City Council has launched an improved way of supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The SEND Graduated Approach Toolkit is available to all professionals who work with youngsters with SEND, aged from 0-25 years, to make sure the right support is in place for them at the right time.
News · 28 May 2025
Next week, Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet will be asked to approve a recommendation that will see the lease of Colomendy Outdoor Activity Centre formally surrendered. In January, the leaseholder of the site, Kingswood Colomendy Ltd, went into administration. The council was informed by the administrators that it has no further interest in the site and
News · 1 May 2025
One of Liverpool’s most popular markets is getting ready to make its first appearance of 2025 this weekend. With the sun set to shine, Allerton Hall Market will be open for business on Saturday, 3 May – and the event will also mark the tenth time that the stalls will be set up in Clarke
News · 30 April 2025
A striking new mural has been unveiled in north Liverpool celebrating the legacy of a unique life-saving hero.
News · 30 April 2025
Today, Liverpool City Council officially introduced its new way of working with children, young people and their families. The new model of practice – Our City, Our Children, Together – has been co-produced by staff and young people and will see the council and its partners working in a holistic way that focuses on relationships
News · 17 April 2025
Yesterday, Liverpool City Council officially launched the city’s Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). Liverpool now joins other areas of the country in implementing an FDAC, which is an alternative family court for care proceedings that takes a problem-solving approach to supporting parents who are dealing with substance misuse and also domestic violence. The FDAC
News · 8 April 2025
Over 2,500 new childcare places are being created in Liverpool that will support working parents – and there are more to come. The increase has been made possible by grant funding received from the government to support the national expansion of funded childcare places as well as places which are part of the “wraparound” programme
News · 4 April 2025
King’s Leadership Academy Wavertree, a non-selective free school, is set to open in September following confirmation from the Department for Education that it is entering into a funding agreement. The Secretary of State for Education has agreed that the multi-academy trust, the Great Schools Trust, can open the school with its first cohort of 210
News · 2 April 2025
Children and young people in Liverpool will now have even more of a say in the support they receive from services thanks to an innovative app. Liverpool City Council has teamed up with nationally recognised Mind of My Own to start rolling out two apps that will be used by children, young people and care
High quality and inclusive education, skills and employment · 25 March 2025
Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet has this evening approved the site for a new girls’ secondary school which will also see the much-loved African Caribbean Centre being preserved.
News · 20 March 2025
PEOPLE in Liverpool are invited to come together next week to mark Mother’s Day at Anfield Crematorium. On Sunday, 30 March, a commemorative service will be held at 1pm, delivered in partnership with the Good Funeral Company, with the crematorium chapel open from noon-2pm for people who would like to take a quiet moment of
News · 19 March 2025
People across Liverpool are being encouraged to have their say on a new neurodivergent strategy for the city. The Liverpool Neurodivergent All-Age Strategy, 2025-2030, has been co-produced by the Liverpool Neurodiversity Strategic Partnership, and represents 18 months of development. And now all stakeholders who live, work or study in Liverpool are invited to give feedback
News · 18 March 2025
This week has seen the launch of the Liverpool Foster Care Association (LFCA) – a new initiative led by foster carers, for foster carers. Supported by Liverpool City Council, this milestone marks a significant step forward in strengthening the fostering community across the city and ensuring foster carers receive the support they need to provide
News · 26 February 2025
A plan to build a new girls’ school in Toxteth was given the green light by Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet last night. The approval to establish the Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy, off Upper Parliament Street, also came with a commitment to support a much-loved community centre on the site. The approximately four-acre site is made
Health · 25 February 2025
Liverpool residents wanting to cut down on alcohol can get free expert support through a new app that promotes a healthier lifestyle. The ‘Lower My Drinking’ app is part of a new campaign urging people to “Rethink Your Drink.” The app is available to anyone living or working in Liverpool. It offers expert advice tailored
News · 21 February 2025
Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet is set to consider a report that will set in motion the development of a new girls’ secondary school in Toxteth, as well as identifying new community facilities for the African Caribbean community. The report, that will be discussed at next week’s cabinet, Tuesday 25 February, is asking that five council-owned
News · 4 February 2025
Looking for employment? Not sure what your next steps should be? Make sure those steps take you to Liverpool City Council’s Job Fair next week. On Monday, 10 February, a whole host of employers will be at Central Library and they are ready to recruit right away. The event, held in partnership between Liverpool in
News · 30 January 2025
Liverpool residents looking to achieve and maintain a healthy weight can get support from a brand new service that has now launched. Liv Life Liverpool is free to access for anyone in the city and is informed by the findings set out in Public Health Liverpool’s groundbreaking State of Health in the City: Liverpool 2040
News · 30 January 2025
The lease of Colomendy Outdoor Activity Centre will be returned to Liverpool City Council following the current leaseholder entering into administration. Earlier this month, Kingswood Colomendy Ltd, the site’s tenant, and its parent company, Inspiring Learning Ltd, both ceased trading and administrators were appointed. Kingswood Colomendy Ltd was granted a 30-year lease on the North
