The Learning Academy Partnership, a Multi-Academy Trust with schools across Devon, has appointed Tracey Cleverly as Chief Executive, having previously served the Trust as director of education for 5 years.
Tracey, who took up the new role on 19th April, has a rich history of working in education and vast school improvement experience even before her time at the Learning Academy Partnership. In her new role, she will be focusing her efforts on consolidating the already excellent offer provided to students, and growing the Trust, to offer this excellent support to schools across...
Just under half of children waiting for adoption are in family groups of two or more with 20 groups waiting in Devon
Latest figures show there are currently 2,020 children waiting to be adopted in England and, of those, 44% are in family groups of two or more. Groups of children wait an average of 17 months to be adopted, which is 36% longer (135 days more) than individual children. More than half of these groups (56%) even wait more than 18 months for their new family. For many potential adopters, this is due to groups being slightly older and worries about financial affordability,...
Vaccination programme entering phase two – covering people aged 18-49
People in the next phase of the vaccination programme will be contacted and offered an appointment at a local vaccination centre in Devon in coming weeks when their age group becomes eligible.
The vaccination programme is entering phase two as it moves to vaccinate groups 10-12, which cover people aged 18-49. Currently, people aged 42 and over are eligible for a vaccine with other age groups due to be invited in coming weeks.
More sites in Devon are set to offer appointments via the National Booking...
Plans for a protected greenspace about half the size of Exeter have received support from East Devon Councillors.
Yesterday at East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee , Councillors unanimously gave their backing in support of the Clyst Valley Regional Park, located in the west of the district.
With ambitious plans to provide benefits for people, nature, climate, water, soils, jobs, education, landscape, and the historic environment, this impressive initiative can now guide partners towards a shared vision and values through the newly-approved 25-year...
Nine teams of young people across Devon and Somerset have made it to the national finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize this year. This includes five different teams from Churston Ferrers Grammar School near Brixham – a record in the prize’s history.
The Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize, delivered by Nesta Challenges, pairs entrepreneurial skills not usually taught in the classroom with the STEM curriculum to encourage young innovators from across the UK aged 11-16 to create tech solutions to the big challenges of our time - such as climate change, healthy living, ageing...
The family of a Devon man, who worked as a fireman on steam trains and as a BT engineer, is appealing to his former colleagues for answers about how he was exposed to asbestos, which caused his death.
Antony Talbot, who was born in Exwick and lived in Exeter, died aged 88 in October last year, one month after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal asbestos-related lung cancer.
His family believe that he was exposed to asbestos when he worked for GWR Exeter in the 1950s and when he installed underground cables for BT from the 1960s until the 1980s. They are now...
Leading independent software company RapidReg Ltd. located in Exeter is on a quest to plant 1 billion trees as part of an aspiring initiative to save the planet by offsetting the carbon footprint generated by businesses, whilst helping them to attract a new wave of green-minded consumers all for just 15p per tree.
Studies suggest between 75%-90% of the total global carbon emissions are produced by businesses and not individuals. Proactive tech entrepreneur Chris Collins co-founder of ‘The Billion Trees Project’, a non-profit arm of his RapidReg brand said: “These are scary...
At 11.38am today Tuesday 27 April 2021 Exmouth RNLI all weather lifeboat 13-03 R & J Welburn was launched having been tasked by H.M. Coastguard to a report of a 24ft speedboat suffering from engine failure, out of control and being taken out to sea by a strong tide. Its location was reported as approximately 100 metres south west of Orcombe Point and drifting.
The lifeboat launched at 12:03pm and was commandeered by Exmouth RNLI volunteer crew, Coxswain Steve Hockings-Thompson, Andrew Stott, Robert Thompson, James Edge and Ed Steele.
Free collection service for unwanted beds and furniture helps save lives
Finding new homes for preloved beds and bedroom furniture has helped to save lives by raising more than £7.1 million for the British Heart Foundation thanks to customers of Bensons for Beds.
Bensons customers can donate unwanted bed frames, bases, mattresses and bedroom furniture to the British Heart Foundation (BHF) which sells them through its network of 190 home stores. Proceeds go to help life-saving research into heart and circulatory diseases.
In the past year the Bensons-BHF partnership has...
The RNLI in the South West has today released its annual rescue figures which show that despite much of the year spent under lockdown restrictions, the regions volunteer lifeboat crews were as busy as ever and launched on average four times a day.
The latest annual statistics for 2020 show the RNLI’s volunteer crews at the 33 lifeboat stations in the South West* launched 1,291 times, aided 1,225 people and saved 30 lives, up on the 29 lives saved in 2019. During the summer, RNLI lifeguards on beaches across the region attended 6,287 incidents and aided 9,179 people and saved 56...
