Media Releases

Council bosses are praising faith and community groups for the ongoing support they are giving to families and vulnerable people in the run up to and over half-term.

Young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can benefit from a series of online events that are being organised by Dudley SENDIASS.

As parents support children with home schooling due to the lockdown, there may be one useful tool they have overlooked – the Xbox or PlayStation.

Kindhearted pupils and staff from St Margaret’s at Hasbury Primary School have raised more than £2,100 for Mary Stevens Hospice with a sponsored Reindeer Run.

The borough’s education chief today called for all teachers and school staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before schools re-open.

Parents are being reminded that there’s still time to apply for their child’s place at primary school or to make a late application for secondary.

Kind-hearted councillors and council staff have clubbed together to buy nearly 500 presents for care leavers in the borough in a bid to give them a Christmas to remember.

Families struggling to put food on the table this Christmas “will not be forgotten in Dudley borough” the leader of Dudley Council has pledged today.

Families who are concerned about coping in the lead up to and during the Christmas break are being reminded they can call the Dudley borough Covid-19 helpline.

Dudley Council has invested in ground-breaking new information technology to radically improve the authority’s work in delivering social care for vulnerable children. 

A top education leader today thanked those who work in early years childcare across Dudley borough for their dedication throughout the pandemic.

Stourbridge is home for Dudley’s new head of children’s services.