Day trips to London are to be included in a higher risk category when Lancashire schools are planning educational activities away from their own premises.
The NHS is taking too long to decide whether it is responsible for the on-going care needs of some Lancashire residents – and failing to quickly reimburse Lancashire County Council for any costs which the authority incurs as a result.
More than 200 elderly people who pay the full cost of attending council-run day centres in Lancashire will see the daily price go up by between £6 and £11 by next spring.
The last time local government had a major overhaul in Lancashire, the Ford Cortina was the best-selling car in the UK, Terry Jacks topped the charts with Seasons in the Sun and the country had just emerged from the three-day working week.
Lancashire could struggle to show that it has made enough progress in improving its special needs services for young people before regulators return to the county later this year.
Improving the language skills of young children across Lancashire is set to be one of the priorities of an effort to boost their level of development by the time they are five years old.
Maintained nursery schools in Lancashire face financial collapse if the government stops covering the extra costs which they have to bear compared to other providers of early years education, councillors have been told.
Some of the women affected by short-notice changes to their pension age could become eligible for concessionary travel in Lancashire – before their revised retirement dates.
A call for Lancashire County Council to support the “traffic light system” of regulation for fracking sites has once again sparked a row over the authority’s stance on the subject – and the procedure for debating it.
Over 1,100 tonnes of salt was saved by Lancashire County Council last winter after it reduced the minimum temperature which had to be forecast before deploying its gritting lorries.
