We’ve received the following information from Swindon Borough Council: A new specialist Early Years centre for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and their families will open for stay and play sessions next month (allocation of places is based on certain criteria and follows an admissions process). Based in a former nursery building… read more
Skills Bootcamps is available free of charge for individual learners who are job searching and looking to improve their skills. It is also available for self employed people who are looking to progress their business. Employers can also pay (at a discounted cost) to enrol their staff onto a Skills Bootcamps course. Gain new skills… read more
Swindon’s A-Level and T-Level students are celebrating another year of great results across Swindon. A total of 1,123 students took their A-Levels across Swindon with a further 233 students completing their T-Levels, which are technical qualifications. A* – E pass rate is 95 per cent (for Swindon students including Cirencester college) and for A… read more
The Parish Council was delighted to hear that everyone had a great time on the first aid course at Chiseldon Primary School. The council worked with the school and Headstart Skillz to fund this day’s training from our grants and donations fund. We hope there are some future nurses, paramedics and doctors there now! The… read more
A brand-new special school will be built and dozens of extra school places created after millions of pounds was secured for SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) education in Swindon. Swindon Borough Council will spend £22.43m over the next four years to create 66 new places at four existing schools as well as build a brand-new… read more
Ninety-one per cent of pupils in Swindon have been offered a place at their first-choice secondary school for this September. This is an improvement on last year when 89 per cent of pupils received a place at their number one school choice. Swindon Borough Council’s School Admissions team received 2,936 on-time applications this year, with… read more
Hundreds of young people in Swindon benefit from programme designed to reduce anti-social behaviour Swindon Borough Council has used funding from the Government’s Safer Streets Fund to commission programmes to be run in schools and colleges to help educate students and reduce anti-social behaviour. The Council was given £1.4m in the latest round of funding,… read more
CPC has received the following message, which we’re passing on for the benefit of our residents: I am emailing on behalf of Inner Flame. We’re a local youth charity that delivers the Prince’s Trust Team Programme to 16-25 year old youths in the Swindon and Wiltshire area. We’d love to work with the parish councils,… read more
The Swindon Preparing for Adulthood Transitions Roadshow 2021 will be run as a virtual event, from Monday 20th to Friday 24th September. There will be presentations from a wide range of organisations throughout the week, and a full timetable with joining instructions, will be published on the Local Offer, and through other communications channels in… read more
Earlier this week the Government introduced a three tiered system of local ‘COVID Alert Levels’ in England. Every area of England now falls into three categories – medium, high or very high, depending on the local rate of infection. As Swindon’s infection rate currently remains significantly below the average in England, it falls under the… read more
Parents and carers with children entering primary, junior or secondary school for the first time next year are being advised by Swindon Borough Council that they now need to apply for school places for them. This year, the Council was able to give 95 per cent of applicants their first preference of primary school and… read more
Swindon Borough Council is backing a national campaign to reassure parents and children that it is safe to return to school when the new term starts next week. The Government’s #backtoschoolsafely campaign is part of the wider Stay Alert campaign, and features newspaper, digital, radio and billboard adverts to showcase a range of new creative… read more
Additional information: Schoolreaders is a national charity which recruits volunteers to go into schools that have asked for our help. We match them to a local primary school. Volunteers go in once a week to listen to children read, which has proved very successful before lockdown: at the beginning of March. we had 12,500 being… read more
Parents and carers whose children have reached their second birthday are being reminded to apply for free childcare by Swindon Borough Council. Locally in Swindon, approximately 736 children are entitled to 15 hours per week of funded childcare (also known as early education or preschool education) at a day nursery, pre-school, playgroup, or with a… read more
There is a joint initiative between the Money Saving Expert and the Open University (OU) for anyone who may want to dedicate some time to improve their financial knowledge. You can complete as many sessions as you like, each one will take about two hours with a mix of info, exercises, explanatory videos from Martin… read more