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Notes and actions from a Public Meeting held on Thursday 11 July on the closures on Brigsteer and Underbarrow bridges.

Westmorland and Furness Council has set out its ambitions for every child in a new strategy approved this week.

Council agrees new approach to supporting and working with communities across Westmorland and Furness.

The ambitious spending plan will see communities benefiting from significant improvements to bus services across the area.

Young people in Westmorland and Furness will again this year receive support to access education and training 

A £2.9 million project to build a 40-place Alternative Provision in Barrow passed a major milestone recently as pre-built modular sections of the school structure started to arrive.

A new recruitment hub has been launched to recruit urgently needed foster carers across Cumbria and Lancashire.

Specially trained tobacco dogs have accompanied Westmorland and Furness Trading Standards and Cumbria Police to retail premises across the Furness area, in a bid to tackle the supply and demand of illegal tobacco products.

Westmorland and Furness Council’s Children’s Services have received a rating of “Good” overall following their first routine Ofsted inspection since replacing the former Cumbria County Council.

Westmorland and Furness Libraries are encouraging children to join this year’s Summer Reading Challenge which launches on Saturday, 13 July, and will run until mid-September.