Leading local advice charity Citizens Advice Exeter, has today released its advice trend statistics for the period 1 April – 31st December 2017.
The charity has helped 7448 people directly with advice and information since 1 April. The overall advice trends, compared to the same period in the previous year, were as follows:
Employment
Overall, the charity saw a 4.8% increase in employment enquiries. The main changes being:
• 26.3% increase about pay and entitlements • 14.8% increase about employment tribunals and appeals • 37.0% reduction about terms...
Visiting friends and relatives in hospital at the Royal Devon and Exeter is set to become easier as the Trust opens up its visiting hours.
From Monday 5 February 2018, patient visiting will be open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
The public are currently only able to visit patients on general wards at set times in the afternoon and early evening.
The move to more flexible hours comes in a bid to make visiting patients in hospital easier and more accessible for friends, relatives and carers, who will be able to choose to visit at a time that is most convenient....
Listed companies in the South West issued a total of 21 profit warnings in 2017, up from 18 in 2016. The final quarter of 2017 saw five profit warnings, compared to six in the same quarter of 2016, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings report. FTSE and AIM-listed support services and travel & leisure companies in the South West issued the most warnings with six each in 2017. Across the UK, the total number of profit warnings in 2017 (276) was comparable with 2016 when 283 warnings were issued. The UK saw 81 profit warnings in Q4 2017 – 11% higher than the same quarter of 2016....
Following a thorough two-day inspection of our children’s home, ‘Progress House’ has been graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted.
The Ofsted report praises the staff and is positive about the future of our three-bed home which provides specialist 52-week residential care, 24 hours a day, for Deaf young people.
Registered Care Home Manager James Heaver leads the Care Team, who includes Deputy Manager Vicky Coombs and nine Residential Support Workers (RSWs) who are all trained in Deaf awareness and qualified in British Sign Language (BSL) up to Level 3.
Footpaths along Pinhoe Road in Exeter are due to be repaired, starting from next week (Monday 5 February).
The existing paving slabs, between St Johns Road and St Marks Avenue, are being replaced with a bitumen surface over the next six weeks.
Temporary traffic lights will be used outside of peak travel times (9:30am – 3:30pm). Temporary bus stops will be located away from the work area and contractor South West Highways Ltd will help manage pedestrian crossings as and when necessary. Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said...
With the benefits of home working becoming more obvious, and as more and more employers are taking advantage of the reduced costs and other benefits of homeworking, there are a number of factors that need to be kept in mind when taking the leap. If your in-house team is no longer spending as much time in the office, you need to make sure that their basic online security is as much a priority when they’re in their home environment as when they are in the office. With up to 60% of cyber-attacks caused by employees, managing your cybersecurity is as vital when your staff are working in their...
The jump season is well underway, and following last week’s winter warmer at Exeter racecourse, the countdown to spring has definitely started. 2018 promises to be a great year for racing fans. A number of the biggest National Hunt events will be offering prize purses that eclipse previous years, so there will be more at stake on every race than ever before.
Catch every important race
To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we have drawn up a list of the most important race meetings over the coming months. The experts at Racing Tips will be on hand all season to provide a...
Fresh from successful tours with Black Stone Cherry, US Grammy winners Halestorm, 3 Doors Down and fellow UK rockers Young Guns and Heavens Basement, UK five piece The Fallen State just announced a full UK tour in March/April 2018.
The band recently released the single ‘Nova” – featuring vocals and guitar contributions from Black Stone Cherry’s Chris Robertson. Already playlisted across UK radio – including Planet Rock and Kerrang radio. The single has already charted in the iTunes chart and is rising.
Founded in the autumn of 2013, The Fallen State brings together five...
Devon County Council is planning to carry out a review of on-street parking in Sidmouth.
The authority will be examining whether people in the town feel residents’ parking permits are needed in some roads.
The review will focus on parking in areas near the town centre where residents typically do not have off-street parking and may experience displacement of vehicles used by shoppers and commuters, making parking near their homes difficult.
An initial letter drop will be to properties to either side of the A376 in the area bounded by the A3052, A376 (Sidford Road),...
Devon is renowned for having beautiful wildlife-rich landscapes and habitats. Less well known is the huge number of rare species which Devon supports, including some such as the horrid ground-weaver spider which are found nowhere else on the planet.
To shine a spotlight on the matter, Devon County Council has worked with the Devon Biodiversity Record Centre and species experts to produce a list of the county's most threatened species.
The work shows that among the tens of thousands of species in Devon, at least 1,600 are considered to be nationally rare or scarce and many...
