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Devon County Council’s fostering service, Fostering Devon, is calling for people to consider offering emergency foster care to vulnerable children.

The new ‘Emergency Bed Scheme’ provides rapid support for children and young people, aged between 0 and 18 years old, who are unable to remain living in their current home and need an immediate place of safety at a time of crisis.

Foster carers providing emergency placements must have no other children at home so that they can accept any child or young person that needs a bed for up to seven nights.

The scheme is run...

The NHS in Devon has received a funding boost from a national programme to support its work in tackling long waiting lists for eye and joint surgery caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health and care partners in the county are receiving £11.3million from the new national Accelerator Systems Programme (ASP) to spend on three initiatives aimed at further reducing waiting times for certain types of operation in Devon, Somerset, Cornwall and Dorset.

Learning from what works well in Devon and other sites nationwide will then help form a blueprint for the recovery of elective...

National housebuilder Redrow Homes has sponsored Exeter Panthers Football Club new kit. The football club is located near the developer’s Saxon Brook development which is situated to the north east of the historic Exeter village, Pinhoe.

Established in 2010, the Exeter Panthers Football Club is now a reputable FA chartered standard development club based-in Exeter. The club is committed to providing football opportunities for the youth of Exeter and surrounding areas.

The side sports 13 teams ranging from U6s to adults, these include 10 youth teams of 140 youth players, a...

People in the South West have been the most active savers during the second lockdown, with 51% of respondents having saved some of their income during November 2020, averaging £241. Alongside being the biggest savers, the region also demonstrated financial resilience, with only 13% reporting feeling financially insecure, the second lowest across all UK regions*.

compare the market. com launches The Uneven Impacts of the Covid-19 Crisis, in collaboration with Cebr (Centre for Economics and Business Research). The new report reveals the stark difference in the way various groups...