The Baton of Hope, a powerful UK-wide campaign to raise awareness of suicide and encourage life-saving conversations around mental health, will visit Cumbria on Sunday, 7 September.
Young people in Westmorland and Furness can receive support with transport costs to access education and training with the 16-19 Education Travel Bursary programme. The programme is now open to new applicants.
We are delighted that despite a challenging national landscape for GCSE results, some of our schools showed improvement with a many of their students achieving results at higher levels.