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AN EAST Sussex County Council children’s home has been rated ‘outstanding’ across all areas by Ofsted.
Brodrick House received the rating following a recent inspection that praised the “highly effective services” and “exceptional care” provided by the home.
ACHIEVING the best possible outcomes for children and young people is top of the agenda for East Sussex County Council’s new Director of Children’s Services.
A decade after his last stint at the authority working as Head of Safeguarding, Stuart Gallimore will return to the county at the end of April to lead the Children’s Services department. Continue reading
THERE was much to celebrate in Hadlow Down yesterday as it became the first village in East Sussex to benefit from a multi-million pound county-wide superfast fibre broadband project.
Hadlow Down’s first fibre broadband cabinet, providing more than 220 homes and businesses with access to the high-speed technology, has now ‘gone live’. Speeds of more than 30Mbps are possible for the majority of customers. Continue reading
RAISING awareness of the dangers of alcohol and promoting a safer drinking culture are part of a strategy to make the county healthier and safer.
The East Sussex Drug and Alcohol Action Team Board and the East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership have published a five year strategy to address the issue alcohol misuse by ensuring authorities share the responsibility and work together. Continue reading
BRITAIN’S biggest professional cycling race will hit East Sussex for the first time as the county hosts part of the penultimate leg of the Tour of Britain.
The provisional route for stage seven, on Saturday, September 13 2014, will see the world’s top riders enter the county near North Chailey, heading through Uckfield, Horam, Hailsham, Eastbourne and East Dean.
The tour heads west through Seaford, Newhaven and Lewes, briefly re-entering West Sussex to take on the famous climb of Ditchling Beacon before passing through Brighton for the finish.
