News · 10 May 2024
Liverpool City Council is set to host a new market next month in one of the city’s most iconic locations – and is now looking for traders to get involved. St George’s Hall will be the home of the market which will be held for the first time on Sunday 16 June and traders are
News · 26 April 2024
Liverpool City Council has successfully placed a Banning Order on a letting agent operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Trophy Homes Ltd was hit with the order relating to convictions from February 2023 including the failure to license two HMO properties. The Banning Order was granted on Thursday, 25 April 2024, under the Housing
News · 18 April 2024
Visitors to St George’s Hall will be able to walk in the footsteps of a Victorian prison guard from next week. The iconic hall’s popular visitor experience The History Whisperer has been reimagined and will now also feature a new character – The Warder – as part of an immersive exhibition with tickets now on
News · 4 April 2024
Parents of young children – we want to hear about the childcare that you need. In 2024, there are several changes being introduced nationally that will expand the funded childcare offer for working parents of young children as well as parents of children who are at primary school. So that the council, schools and providers
News · 3 April 2024
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world's largest independent cruise port operator, has signed a 50-year agreement with Peel Ports Group’s subsidiary, The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company Ltd, to operate services at Liverpool Cruise Port.
News · 27 February 2024
PEOPLE in Liverpool are invited to come together next week to mark Mother’s Day at Anfield Crematorium. On 10 March, a commemorative service will be held at 11am, delivered in partnership with the Good Funeral Company, with the crematorium chapel open from 10am-noon for people who would like to take a quiet moment of reflection
News · 22 February 2024
Together with the National Youth Agency, Liverpool City Council is undertaking a comprehensive review of youth provision across the city. Involving young people and their parents and carers is crucial to understanding how the council and its partners should shape youth services in the future. We have two brief surveys that are currently open to
News · 21 February 2024
Eleven organisations have been given thousands of pounds in funding to deliver youth engagement projects in Garston. At an event at The Academy of St Nicholas, schoolchildren from the Academy and five local primary schools (St Austin’s, Garston CE, Banks Road, Gilmour Juniors and Holy Trinity) decided who should win the share of £31,000, made
News · 21 February 2024
Liverpool’s Director of Public Health, Professor Matt Ashton, on why you should protect your loved ones against measles, which is one of the most infectious diseases in the world. There is a large outbreak in Birmingham and Coventry mainly affecting children under 10 years old. Many children have now been admitted to hospital. Liverpool has
News · 15 February 2024
Liverpool City Council has been awarded over £360,000 to fund a pioneering pilot that will support young people in Liverpool into employment. The Council is one of only 12 local authorities to bid successfully to be part of a national supported internship programme pilot. The pilot is for young people with special educational needs, or
News · 2 February 2024
Liverpool City Council Leader Cllr Liam Robinson and leaders of seven other major English councils yesterday wrote to the Prime Minster and Chancellor urging them to extend funding provided to local authorities by the Household Support Fund. Leaders of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield Councils, all part of the Core Cities
News · 1 February 2024
Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people in Liverpool? We’re currently recruiting residential workers for a new children’s home and we would love to hear from you! We’ve invested significantly to develop our own children’s homes and the first of these is set to open soon.
High quality and inclusive education, skills and employment · 18 January 2024
Hearing what residents think about Council-run services and the services they would like to see in the future is very important to us. And that includes listening to children and young people. Here, Cabinet Member for Employment, Educational Attainment and Skills Cllr Lila Bennett explains why the Liverpool Schools’ Parliament is such an important forum
News · 13 December 2023
Children and young people across Liverpool will once again be able to enjoy a programme of hundreds of FREE activities across the festive break. The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme returns on Wednesday 27 December, with a huge choice of activities for children and young people from eligible families. As well as plenty of
News · 5 December 2023
Leaders of Liverpool’s Jewish community have been invited to visit Britain’s oldest mosque on Wednesday [6 December] as a gesture of good will and harmony between the two communities. The Abdullah Quilliam Mosque, on Brougham Terrace, has invited Jewish faith leaders to visit the mosque so that further discussions can be held to understand the
News · 27 November 2023
AN INNOVATIVE Liverpool education project that supports some of the city’s most vulnerable children has won a teaching “Oscar” this weekend. The Liverpool HEARTS Project Team, which is led and funded by Liverpool City Council’s Virtual School in partnership with Hope School, received a prestigious gold Pearson National Teaching Award for its work to introduce
Blog · 8 September 2023
Cllr Ruth Bennett, Cabinet Member for Finances, Resources and Transformation, explains how we’re meeting the challenge of providing better customers services whilst reducing call volumes The Customer Service Team’s core ambition is to making sure that we provide a convenient online service for those that can do things for themselves, so that we can concentrate
News · 22 August 2023
LIVERPOOL will become home to a new secondary school after the Department for Education approved plans to open a new free school. Star Academies will open the 800-place Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy for pupils aged 11-18 and it is one of 15 new schools nationally approved under the government’s free schools programme. The multi-academy trust
News · 22 August 2023
Cllr Ruth Bennett, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, Resources and Transformation, explains now improving customer service is a vital part of our transformation journey. Liverpool City Council’s Contact Centre takes a huge volume of calls every year. In 2023-24 alone, based on trends from previous years, we are expecting to take nearly 850,000
News · 11 August 2023
Liverpool City Council has been criticised by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for its handling of Freedom of Information requests. A Practice Recommendation has been issued by the ICO regarding the Council’s low FOI response rate and the failure to respond to all requests within 20 working days. The City Council has already put an
