News releases

Cllr Paul Soane

THE deadline for parents and carers to apply for their child’s secondary school place is fast approaching. Families with children in Year 6 have until midnight on Saturday, October 31 to submit their applications for September 2027. Every year there are families whose children would have secured a place at their preferred school had their application been made before the deadline. Cllr Paul Soa...

Wednesday, 14 October 2026



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EAST Sussex County Council has overcome huge challenges to deliver vital services to thousands of residents, an annual report shows. State of the County reveals how the authority supported more than 30,000 people through adult social care services in 2024/25 and had contact with more than 48,000 children and young people through its children’s services team. The report, which will be presented...

Karen Bowles Tuesday, 17 June 2025


RESIDENTS are being invited to take part in a consultation that will help reshape local government and how services are run in the future. Government wants to reorganise local government so that everyone in East Sussex gets their services from just one council. This could mean the county council and district and borough councils would be replaced by a single authority. Other options could also...

Karen Bowles Monday, 12 May 2025


ROAD users will benefit following a successful bid for £875,000 to improve the safety of a road in Hastings. East Sussex County Council has been awarded funding from the Government’s Safer Roads Fund (SRF) to implement safety improvements on a section of the A2101. The scheme, which is the first Safer Roads Fund scheme in East Sussex, will deliver improvements at 15 locations from the junction...

Karen Bowles Wednesday, 20 March 2024


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