Improving outcomes and tackling inequalities within our communities

The School Nursing Team are offering Audiology (hearing) screening for all reception class pupils. These are carried out as clinics at different locations in the city.

You can visit the Health for Kids webpage or contact your School Nursing Team via the contact details below for more information.

Moat House School Nurse Team:

Tel: 01926 495321 Ext 7494 Email: Swg-tr.MoatHouseSchoolNursing@nhs.net

Charter Avenue School Nurse Team:

Tel: 01926 495321 Ext 7417 Email: Swg-tr.CharterAvenueSchoolNursing@nhs.net

City councillors have criticised a drastic cutback in funding that will hit the city’s residents as they try to upskill and obtain work, as well as being able to create jobs in the city and the region.

For more information about this story, click here.

The Council has taken planning enforcement action to prevent the Home Office from housing more than 100 asylum seekers in the city centre.

The government’s contractor Serco had struck a deal to use the privately owned and currently empty Quadrant Hall on Manor House Drive as a hostel to provide accommodation for asylum seekers. For more information on this story, click here.

Do you, or someone you know, have a long term health condition or disability, and are living in the areas of Bell Green, Wood End, Manor House, Henley Green
or Manor Farm Estate?

Supported by Coventry City Council, Wonder As You Wander is an arts and health project delivered by The Starfish Collaborative inviting residents to join local creative artists in local parks and woodland for a wellbeing wander, connecting you to creativity and nature to benefit your mental and physical health.

Free sessions will take place in accessible green spaces during March.

Find out more and book a place.

Coventry City Council is buying properties to provide more large homes for families who find themselves homeless.

The latest property to be purchased is on Gulson Road. The building was a former HMO which has been refurbished and now provides a large temporary family home. For more information, click here.

Do you like to make a difference? Are you a decision-maker? Have you got time to spare?

If so, why not consider giving some of your time to hearing School Admission Appeals?

The Coventry School Appeals Service is calling for new volunteers to join those Independent Appeal Panel members who already make a valuable contribution to the appeals service by making informed decisions relating to the admission of children to preferred local schools.

If you are interested in becoming an Independent School Appeal Panel Member, please click here for more information.

Families living in temporary accommodation are receiving free laptops as part of efforts by the Council to enable people on the lowest income to access vital services.

Coventry City Council has partnered with a number of organisations to help local residents stay connected this winter.

The Council’s #CovConnects Team is working with AbilityNet charity and the Moat House Community Trust on a project which will help ten local digitally excluded residents get access to the digital world.

For more information about this project, click here.

More help is being provided to support rough sleepers in the city.

The Council received a grant extension to support its Rough Sleepers Drug and Alcohol Treatment (RSDAT) outreach work, supporting people who have complex and multiple needs. In June last year the specialist treatment was introduced, and the extra funding will now help this to continue and develop to March 2024

For more information, click here.

Councillors recently discussed adopting a new policy that allows the authority to charge a 100 per cent premium on Council Tax for owners of homes that have been empty and unfurnished for 12 months.

To learn more about the policy, click here.