The City of Wolverhampton Council has appointed its first Independent Travel Training Coordinator, to provide additional support to young people who face barriers to travelling on their own. The Independent Travel Training programme offers one-to-one supports to enable 11 to 19-year-olds to travel a specific route in a safe and responsible way on public transport. It is open to anyone who lives in Wolverhampton and either uses assisted transport or is eligible for travel assi

Want to know how to get the most out of your digital device? Adult Education Wolverhampton is joining forces with the city's libraries to put on a series of courses designed to help people master their mobiles and triumph over their tablets. The free Getting The Most From Your Digital Device courses will, over five weeks, cover using the camera and downloading photographs, downloading and using Apps, searching the internet, using email and social media, and online safety. Cou

Young people in Wolverhampton have celebrated graduating from The House Project, a ground-breaking scheme designed to help care leavers move into their own home and forge an independent life. The success of the City of Wolverhampton Council-backed project was marked with a special event held at Grand Station. It celebrated the ‘graduation’ of care leavers from the project and into independent living, and thanked external partners who have worked with council staff and young p

Community organisations have been thanked for their work to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people in Wolverhampton through the city’s HeadStart programme. Gazebo, Positive Participation, WV10 and YMCA were all commissioned at the beginning of the City of Wolverhampton Council’s National Lottery-funded programme to deliver mental health and emotional wellbeing support to 10–16 year-olds in four areas of the city. HeadStart Wolverhampton has been working

TV star Jay Blades MBE, presenter of BBC One's The Repair Shop, officially unveiled The Ark at St Michael's CE Primary School in Tettenhall on Friday 8 April. It is Wolverhampton's 13th specialist resource centre or unit, designed to enable more children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to be supported in mainstream education. All provide targeted support to help pupils make progress, achieve their identified outcomes and attend mainstre

A Wolverhampton primary school has been named School of the Year at the Your UK Parliament Awards after launching a campaign to get defibrillators into all schools in the city. SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy in Whitmore Reans has been raising awareness of the importance of defibrillators since the collapse of Danish footballer Christian Eriksen at the European Championships last summer, which shocked Year 6 pupils. They started a campaign to get a defibrillator fo

Residents are being invited to give generously and help make it an egg-stravagant Easter for the city's children in care and care leavers. The City of Wolverhampton Council is appealing for people to donate chocolate Easter eggs which it will then distribute to young people. Donations can be made to the Reach Leaving Care Team, Old Heath Crescent, Wednesfield WV1 2HP next Thursday 14 April between 1pm and 6pm. Alternatively, people can email hannah.finch@wolverhampton.gov.uk

Wolverhampton’s Yo! Easter programme is set to offer a host of fun and exciting events for children, young people and their families throughout the coming school holidays. The Easter offer gets into full swing from Saturday (9 April) and continues for two weeks with a range of activities, many of them free, that the whole family can enjoy. Children will have the chance to learn new skills and build confidence with one of the many sports activities taking place across the city

It is important we do everything we can to help keep your data safe. Especially with the increase in phishing attacks we have seen in recent months. That is why we have implemented two-factor authentication on your email accounts. You may have noticed messages popping up about Microsoft Authenticator. Now is time to take the plunge and set it up for yourself. It’s very easy and to help you we’ve created a tutorial video which takes you through the process. Once this is done i