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Salford offers holiday food support

Parents of Salford children who get free school meals are being offered shopping vouchers to help towards the cost of food during the six week summer holidays. The £30 grocery vouchers will be made available to those eligible through the City Mayor’s Salford Assist programme,

UK aid to help prevent unsafe abortions

New UK aid support for the Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) will give some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women and girls access to safe abortion. It will also give urgent care and counselling for women dealing with the often devastating consequences of

New public health duty to tackle serious violence

Home Secretary Sajid Javid will this week announce a new legal duty on public bodies to prevent and tackle serious violence. The new ‘public health duty’ will cover the police, local councils, local health bodies such as NHS Trusts, education representatives and youth offending services.

All new rapid chargepoints should offer card payment by 2020

all new electric vehicle rapid and higher powered chargepoints should provide ‘pay as you go’ debit or credit card payment option government prepared to intervene to ensure a good deal for consumers by using powers in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act announcement follows the

Summer of fun for Bolton youngsters

Bolton Council has announced its Summer Fun programme for 2019, offering a wide range of free activities for 4 to 17-year-olds throughout July and August. Held at youth clubs and parks across the borough, young people will enjoy crafts, sport, games, cookery and much more.