Media Releases

Dudley Council is reminding businesses that employ school-age teenagers that work permits are needed to comply with employment laws.

Two 10-year-olds from Glynne Primary in Kingswinford have been named as joint winners of a borough-wide poster competition for youngsters around Covid-19.

The appointment of a new permanent management team gives Dudley Council a stable base to build on its journey to improve children’s services, bosses said today.

Dudley Council’s fostering team continues their online search for new foster carers.

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.

Residents who are struggling to afford food and essentials are reminded support is available through a COVID-19 emergency assistance grant.

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.

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

Parents who park dangerously outside borough schools could be fined – and even taken to court - in a new initiative being launched by Dudley Council and West Midlands Police.

A primary school in Dudley has been highlighted in a national report for its excellent work in helping parents and children prepare to go back after lockdown.

The commercial trading arm of Dudley Council has been praised for “going above and beyond” to support schools during the coronavirus crisis.