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News published September 2019

• Naloxone kits and training available to all

  

  Published 19th September 2019

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is highlighting the work being done with Naloxone kits and training to avoid drug-related deaths.

• Connected and Smart: briefing offers opportunity for Southend businesses to learn more

  

  Published 18th September 2019

  A Southend Business Partnership briefing, looking at the key Southend 2050 strategic theme of “connected and smart”, will take place on Thursday 26 September at The Forum.

• Your Pride and Joy pictures to air on The Big Screen

  

  Published 16th September 2019

  An array of photos taken by local people and visitors, showing the best of our coastline, will be showcased on The Big Screen from tomorrow (17 September 2019).

• Young people encouraged to text a school nurse for health advice

  

  Published 13th September 2019

  A health service which allows schoolchildren to anonymously text message a school nurse has launched.

• 10 roads to shine brighter thanks to more street lighting

  

  Published 13th September 2019

  Sixty new LED lampposts will be installed across five Southend streets this autumn, thanks to funding added to the budget by the council’s new joint administration.

• Public event for parents and carers

  

  Published 12th September 2019

  Parents and carers of children with special educational needs are invited to have their say on Post 16 opportunities for young people in Southend living with special educational needs.

• Council becomes a Real Living Wage employer

  

  Published 12th September 2019

  Councillors will discuss the work needed to make Southend-on-Sea Borough Council an accredited Real Living Wage employer at the cabinet meeting next week (Tuesday 17 September).

• Brexit preparations on the agenda

  

  Published 12th September 2019

  The council’s cabinet will receive an update on its own Brexit preparations at its meeting next week (Tuesday 17th September).

• Plans in place to make council ‘carbon neutral’

  

  Published 11th September 2019

  A climate emergency could be announced in Southend-on-Sea next week as plans to create a ‘Green City’ continue to take shape.

• World Suicide Prevention Day: panel discuss complex issues at Southend event

  

  Published 11th September 2019

  The Southend Suicide Prevention Partnership Steering Group hosted an event offering open and honest conversation about this challenging subject on World Suicide Prevention Day (Tuesday 10 Sept 2019).

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