Let an Adult Learning Service open day set you up for success

Liverpool’s Adult Learning Service (ALS) will once again be hosting open days and skills checks to support people on to a vocational course. The highly successfully open days offer a chance to meet the experienced ALS team and tutors who will help learners to find the right course for them. Courses starting in January are: … Read more

Liverpool Locations: connecting people, places and productions

Liverpool is now the UK’s most-filmed city outside London – and at the heart of its thriving screen industry are two sisters helping to make the magic happen. Faye and Claire Newton, long-established location managers with credits on Peaky Blinders, Bridgerton, The Ipcress File and Amazon’s Heads of State, founded Liverpool Locations to connect productions … Read more

Event to blaze a trail for young people’s employment

Young people in Liverpool who are currently looking for employment are invited to the city’s first Youth Guarantee Trailblazer event later next week. On Tuesday 11 November, young people aged 18-21 can come along to Liverpool Town Hall to a special marketplace event to meet a wide range of partners who are looking to support … Read more

Liverpool Adult Learning Service to host further open days

Missed the Liverpool Adult Learning Service open days in July? Don’t worry there’re still more opportunities for learners to meet the team next month! After four highly successful open days in July where the experienced ALS team and tutors met prospective students, there are four further days in September for learners to find out about … Read more

Council submits site proposal for new school 

Plans to deliver a new school in Liverpool are approaching a significant milestone as proposals for the site are submitted to the Department for Education.  Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy, Liverpool, to be operated by Star Academies, was approved in August 2023 by the DfE under the Free Schools Programme, in response to rising demand for … Read more

Empowering young people into work

Liverpool City Council is committed to helping residents into work, whether it’s getting back into work after a period of unemployment or young people securing their very first role. One group that can often find it tough to find roles are people with a learning disability or autism, with just 4.1 per cent in the … Read more

Forty further SEND school places to be created

Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet will next week be asked to approve plans for temporary modular classrooms which will see a further increase in school places for pupils with SEND. The classrooms are set to provide 40 further places at the Naylorsfield Drive site of Millstead Primary School, Netherley, from this September for two years, after … Read more

Open up a world of skills with the Adult Learning Service

Thinking about returning to learning? Not sure where to start? Then come along to a Liverpool Adult Learning Service (ALS) open day! Next week, the ALS team will be on hand at four centres across the city to answer questions about the courses that will be available from September. The open days, that operate on … Read more

SEND Local Offer LIVE returns to St George’s Hall

Liverpool’s biggest annual event for parents, carers and professionals who work with children with SEND returns later this month. Now in its fifth year, SEND Local Offer LIVE is back at St George’s Hall on Wednesday 18 June and will bring together providers, organisations and professionals as well as families and carers at a dynamic … Read more

New toolkit launches to support youngsters with SEND

Liverpool City Council has launched an improved way of supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The SEND Graduated Approach Toolkit is available to all professionals who work with youngsters with SEND, aged from 0-25 years, to make sure the right support is in place for them at the right time. … Read more

Childcare places increased in Liverpool thanks to grant funding

Over 2,500 new childcare places are being created in Liverpool that will support working parents – and there are more to come. The increase has been made possible by grant funding received from the government to support the national expansion of funded childcare places as well as places which are part of the “wraparound” programme … Read more

Wavertree Academy secures Government funding for September opening

King’s Leadership Academy Wavertree, a non-selective free school, is set to open in September following confirmation from the Department for Education that it is entering into a funding agreement. The Secretary of State for Education has agreed that the multi-academy trust, the Great Schools Trust, can open the school with its first cohort of 210 … Read more

Cabinet makes decision on site for new girls’ school

A plan to build a new girls’ school in Toxteth was given the green light by Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet last night. The approval to establish the Eden Girls’ Leadership Academy, off Upper Parliament Street, also came with a commitment to support a much-loved community centre on the site. The approximately four-acre site is made … Read more

Cabinet set to decide on proposed site for new girls’ school

Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet is set to consider a report that will set in motion the development of a new girls’ secondary school in Toxteth, as well as identifying new community facilities for the African Caribbean community. The report, that will be discussed at next week’s cabinet, Tuesday 25 February, is asking that five council-owned … Read more