News

• COVID-19 increases Council's budget pressures

  29 May 2020
  Budget pressures from COVID-19 are set to increase the County Council’s £38.9m budget gap next year.

• Support plan for care homes unveiled

  29 May 2020
  Support to help keep care home residents and staff safe and manage any outbreak of Covid 19 has been unveiled by the county council and the NHS.

• Council thanks schools, colleges and early years providers for their huge efforts in planning for children’s return

  29 May 2020
  Norfolk County Council has today thanked those working across education for the huge efforts they have made to support more children to return to schools and nurseries from next week.

• Three further Recycling Centres to reopen across Norfolk

  27 May 2020
  Three more Norfolk Recycling Centres are to open on Thursday 28 May bringing the total to twelve sites across the County.

• Norfolk Libraries provide lifeline for thousands during lockdown

  20 May 2020
  Thousands of residents have been turning to Norfolk’s libraries during the lockdown - with a surge in online borrowing and people using new digital library activities.

• Delicious Drawings Competition: Children to explore the value of food through new competition by #FoodSavvy

  20 May 2020
  Pioneering food saving campaign #FoodSavvy launches a month-long Delicious Drawings competition, this Wednesday 20 May, in collaboration with East of England Co-op. Children are invited to draw a picture which shows us how you can stop tasty food from ending up in the bin. The competition will inspire primary school children in Norfolk to get creative about saving and valuing food.

• Young Carers – our Heroes at Home

  18 May 2020
  A new campaign aimed at Norfolk’s young carers launches today. Led by Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership and supported by carers organisations Carers Matter Norfolk and Caring Together, Heroes at Home recognises the vital role young carers play in supporting their loved ones at home and highlights the range of support available to help them.

• Norfolk Residents Thanked for Making Reopening of Recycling Centres a Success

  18 May 2020
  Reopening eight of Norfolk’s recycling centres has been a positive example of how lockdown restrictions can be eased while physical distancing measures are successfully implemented.

• Schools and early years settings could open to more pupils next month

  18 May 2020
  The government has announced that primary schools, nurseries, pre-schools and childminders may be able to open to more pupils from 1 June.

• Scrutiny committee to consider pandemic response

  18 May 2020
  Norfolk County Council’s scrutiny committee is to discuss the authority’s response to the Covid 19 pandemic, at its first virtual, online meeting.