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Adult learning
offers training for work
LIVERPOOL'S Adult Learning
Service is offering a range of new courses to help people develop
skills to assist them into work. The service has recently been
refocused to concentrate on supporting residents into work and
training and has now been joined by Liverpool In Work, the arm of
the City Council that supports people into employment, in their Park
Road Centre.
Whether it is IT skills, languages, cookery, massage, beauty or art; there are a range of options to suit everyone. Courses take place
at the City's four Adult Learning Centres during the day and other
sites in the evening.
Councillor Nick Small, Cabinet member for employment, enterprise and
skills, said:- "Despite the Council facing some tough
financial decisions, we are determined to find ways to support
residents to develop new skills which will help them into work.
By bringing the Adult Learning Service and Liverpool In Work closer
together, we are better able to focus our resources and make sure
that people needing to find employment can be linked to
opportunities to develop new skills.
There are still lots of traditional courses on offer at a subsidised
cost, so if you're thinking of learning a new skill, now is the time
to sign up."
Courses which help with employability such as computing or IT are
free to people who are on Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), Employment
Support Allowance (Work Related Activity Group only). People on
income support, working Tax credit, housing Benefit and Council Tax
Benefit may be entitled to a discretionary fee waiver.
The Adult Learning Centres are based at Newsham Drive, Park Road,
Granby Street Adult Learning Centres and Clubmoor Children's Centre
in Norris Green during the day and Broadgreen, Calderstones and
Childwall Secondary Schools in the evening.
Enrolment is taking place from Monday, 24 February 2014, with
details of how to register are available
online also via by calling:- 0151 233 3026.
Warning over
'Lost Medication' in Bootle
MERSEYSIDE Police are
urging the public not to consume prescription medicine lost in
Bootle this morning. The box of 'BritLofex'
tablets were lost in Poets Park in the Knowsley Road area at around
8am by a local woman. The box is described as white with
the 'BritLofex' brand name on a sticker on the
side. It contains 36 tablets of the product, which is a drug
called:- 'Lofaxidine Hydrochloride' and used for
managing noradrenaline levels. As with any prescription
medicine, the drugs could have adverse side effects in anyone who
takes them who they are not meant for. Anyone who finds them
should not consume them and instead hand them into their nearest
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A greener City
DERELICT land in Liverpool,
equivalent to the size of a City park, has been converted into
community use. About 19 hectares, that is 47 acres,
(0.19020225174
Square Kilometers) of grot spots have
been cleared, existing open spaces given a makeover or new green
spaces created, in the last three years.
"That is the equivalent of creating an area of green space the
size of Princes Park throughout the City. But while the amount of new green space is impressive the real
impact is in how it improves the quality of people's lives.
Having community gardens, allotments or pocket parks in their
neighbourhoods is something that local residents have really
welcomed.
Not only have they got easy access to green spaces but in some of
them they have been growing food which distributed locally; others
have got new artworks reflecting the history of the areas. And,
importantly, they have got rid of eyesores which have been blighting
neighbourhoods. Some of the new community gardens have been created
out of comparatively small areas, where a few houses have been
cleared, but the improvements have made a real difference to their
surroundings." said Councillor
Steve Munby, cabinet member for living environment and localism.
Among recent schemes are:-
► Community gardens at Altfinch Close, Dovecot; and Isaac Street,
Dingle
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Allotments for schools in Croxteth
► A wildflower meadow in Clubmoor
► A garden for growing food in
Cullen Street, Liverpool 8, which also incorporates a garden of
remembrance.
► More than 100 sites across the City have been converted into green
spaces.
"Our approach has been to identify these sites on a
neighbourhood level and work with local people... The result is a greener Liverpool which
is improving people's lives." said
Councillor Munby.
FAIL TO STOP RTC - WARRINGTON
ROAD, BOLD HEATH, MERSEYSIDE
MERSEYSIDE Police have
issued an appeal for witnesses after a cyclist was found injured by
the side of the road on the outskirts of Widnes on 18 2014.
The man, whose age is not currently known, was found by a passing
motorist in Warrington Road in Bold Heath at 6.40am. It is not
known how long he had been there and he is currently being assessed
at Aintree University Hospital in Fazakerley in Liverpool with what
is believed to be a serious head injury. Officers believe the
cyclist may have been involved in a collision with a vehicle
sometime around 6.30am, which then failed to stop. They are
appealing for any motorsit who was in the Bold Heath and Warrington
Heath area between 6.30 and 6.40am this morning to contact them on:-
0151 777 5747.
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