A pop-up COVID-19 and flu vaccination clinic is visiting Walsall town centre (near Poundland on High Street/Lower Hall Lane) on Saturday 17 December from 9am to 2pm to help residents get vaccinated ahead of the festive season. Those who are aged over 50, pregnant, frontline health and social care workers or living with certain health conditions are encouraged to get their booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It helps improve protection from the first two doses of the vaccine and helps against getting seriously ill from COVID-19. Vaccines will also be offered to anyone aged 18 and over who is…
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A pop-up COVID-19 and flu vaccination clinic is visiting Walsall town centre (near Poundland on High Street/Lower Hall Lane) on Saturday 17 December from 9am to 2pm to help residents get vaccinated ahead of the festive season. Those who are aged over 50, pregnant, frontline health and social care workers or living with certain health conditions are encouraged to get their booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It helps improve protection from the first two doses of the vaccine and helps against getting seriously ill from COVID-19. Vaccines will also be offered to anyone aged 18 and over who is…
The city council is supporting children and families this winter with a number of initiatives. The Holiday Activities and Food winter programme – Bring it on Brum – returns, helping children, young people and their parents have fulfilling, active, fun-filled and healthy school holidays. It is the biggest programme of its kind in the country. There are hundreds of events available, free ideas and resources for keeping children and young people busy, indoor and outdoor games, cookery skills, arts and crafts, sports, fitness and dance, health and wellbeing, quizzes, park activities, nature trails and more. Activities offer a hot meal or snack…
A group of Muslim women from Aston have held their first-ever Christmas Market to foster better relationships with the local community. The women who have been working on arts & crafts projects throughout the year, showed off their wares at community hub Saathi House yesterday. After spending much of this year taking part in workshops and classes promoting cooking, cake decorating, heritage, painting, gardening and health; local ladies who use the social empowerment centre came together to end the year with a bit of festive fun on Tuesday (13 December). “Most of the women who use our centre are Muslims…
Walsall Council has recently been accredited Fostering Friendly status by the National Fostering Network, for the support provided to employees that foster children. The Fostering Friendly scheme helps employers to improve the levels of help and support provided to employee’s who are foster carers. As a part of the scheme, Walsall Council has implemented a fostering friendly HR policy to support and protect employees who foster. “ Implementing the fostering friendly policy and being recognised as a Foster Friendly employer is a huge step forward for Walsall. As an organisation, we actively encourage fostering within the community to support children…
Trading Standards Officers from Walsall Council, with support from West Midlands Police and brand protection teams, seized thousands of counterfeit goods in a pre-Christmas swoop at Bescot Market on Sunday 11 December 2022. The haul included fake perfume, copies of designer handbags, replica brand clothing and fashion footwear. The street value of the goods, had they been genuine, is estimated to be in excess of £1 million Brand Protection experts who were on site from early morning pinpointed three market stalls selling the suspect products. Trading Standards and the Police were alerted and by 11 am a group of officers…
A programme that supports healthy eating and growing among primary schools and early years settings will be considered for a contract extension at the next Walsall Council Cabinet meeting on Wednesday 14 December 2022. Food for Life, run by the Soil Association, aims to encourage making good food the easy choice for everyone, reconnecting people with where food comes from and championing the importance of well-sourced ingredients. Public Health Walsall commissioned Food for Life in 2017, the first Food for Life programme in the Black Country. So far, the programme has engaged with 86 settings (primary schools and early years),…
Work in Birmingham to address air pollution and the climate crisis has been highlighted in the Government Chief Medical Officer’s annual report. The report says ‘significant work is underway to create spaces for people that encourage exploration of the city via sustainable methods’ and highlights a range of projects from the city council and partners. Cllr Liz Clements, Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “We are working across the council and with partners to ensure a healthier environment, including through our clean air zone and by delivering the Birmingham Transport Plan which aims to make it easier and safer to walk…
An Economic Strategy and Action Plan (ESAP) for Walsall has been developed to address some of the challenges within the Walsall Borough and shape a future that benefits all. The ESAP consists of key proposals that will help tackle these issues and prioritise resources to best meet the needs of Walsall residents – it will include the work of Walsall Council and partners to create an attractive and prosperous place and address crime, housing, community, health, opportunity, aspiration and environment among others. It has been developed alongside the We Are Walsall 2040 programme and consultation, during which residents told the…
Christmas is a time when many of us look forward to being with our loved ones, making lifelong memories while getting into the festive spirit of caring for each other. For the majority of us the festive period will be full of joy and an occasion to look forward to. However, for families whose children will be seriously ill in hospital, this Christmas will be a time full of worry. Hospital can be a lonely and scary place for anyone, but especially a child. We want to make sure no child faces hospital alone and like all charities we are…