News - July 2020

Following feedback from residents, Gloucestershire County Council will be resurfacing parts of the B4228 in Coleford throughout August in two phases.

The county council and its partners are making sure that support remains available for those who need it, following changes to shielding guidance which take effect from 1 August.

From 3 August, Gloucestershire County Council will be installing a new cycle lane along London Road, Cheltenham Road and sections of Estcourt Road in Gloucester, creating a link between Longlevens and the city centre, hospital and railway station.

From Tuesday 4 August, visitors will be able to pre-book an appointment to access the unique collections on offer at Gloucestershire Archives at the Heritage Hub.

For the first time in the history of the census, there will be a question on service in the Armed Forces following a campaign led by The Royal British Legion and Poppyscotland, supported by Gloucestershire County Council.

The A417 Barnwood Link road will need to be closed later this month to allow for repairs to a tunnel where the Horsbere Brook flows under the road.

Two families in Gloucestershire are opening up about something they all have in common and feel passionately about. They are foster carers who provide a loving, stable home to siblings, helping them to stay together.

Another 14 libraries in Gloucestershire will be offering collection services from Monday 20 July.

With restrictions easing, staff in Gloucestershire County Council’s registration team have been working tirelessly to process birth registrations, Notices of Marriage and re-organise weddings and civil partnership ceremony dates.

If you have symptoms of Covid-19, you can get a free NHS test.

Subject to Cabinet approval, Gloucestershire County Council will begin the search for a mixture of in-house and third party contractors to deliver a new and improved digital operating model.

At its meeting next week county council’s cabinet will be asked to approve plans to extend its current youth support service until March 2022.

On Wednesday 22 July, cabinet will be asked to agree £2.7m to continue supported housing for adults with serious mental illness, and £1m for a specialist team to work with them to design brand new placements.

At their meeting next week, council’s cabinet will be asked to agree to replace the vans that deliver vital equipment to support people to live independently at home.

Next week cabinet will be asked to approve plans to renew the contract for running the county council’s five Household Recycling Centres.

Gloucestershire people are recycling more home food waste than ever before – and, if agreed next week, the search will start for a company to take on the recycling of this waste into the future.

Gloucestershire County Council wants to line up its gas and electricity buying with its energy sales from Javelin Park to find the most efficient way of dealing with its future energy needs.

Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet is being asked to increase its investment in the county’s infrastructure by £20.296 million at a meeting on Wednesday 22 July.

As we approach the end of a challenging academic year, head teachers and teachers, working with the county council, are already looking ahead to the autumn as they prepare to welcome all children back to school.

Gloucestershire County Council has invested £30,000 as part of its Holiday Hunger Programme to make sure that no young person goes without this summer holiday.

Gloucestershire Libraries are calling for children to keep reading over the summer holidays by joining the ‘Silly Squad’ for the Summer Reading Challenge 2020.

A dozen libraries in Gloucestershire are getting ready to launch new collection services starting next Monday.

Gloucestershire County Council’s flag is flying at half mast today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

Gloucestershire County Council’s Highways Team has won a prestigious national award for the way it works in partnership to deliver the county’s highway services.

Gloucestershire County Council will be given more money than previously allocated by Government to help make it easier to walk and cycle during Covid-19 restrictions.

To provide a more complete picture of the number of confirmed cases there has been in the county, the council is today publishing details of cases confirmed via both NHS and PHE testing (Pillar 1) and community testing by commercial partners and the military (Pillar 2).

Foster carers Neil and Sally Barnaby are celebrating forty years of fostering vulnerable children for the county council this year.

Care workers recruited through the county council’s Proud to Care fast track recruitment campaign to help the county’s care providers through the Covid-19 crisis are settling in to their new roles.