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Category Archives: Children

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Merton school presents new Maxi Martin Award for services to the community

19 July 2016by

Abbotsbury Primary School in Morden held their special end of year prize giving assembly this week (18 July) to recognise their pupils’ hard work in their school subjects as well […]

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Children, Education and schools, Young people
Young people riding the bikes they built.

Merton’s young people build their own bike from scratch

12 July 2016by

Pupils at Merton Council’s Smart Centre in Morden built their own bikes with the help of bike mechanics from the council’s cycle training provider, Cycle Confident.

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Children, Young people

Primary school delighted by new Merton Council bin

7 July 2016by

A primary school is delighted with its new bin, one of three new bins provided by Merton Council after requests by members of the public.

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Children, Clean streets, Education and schools, Environment, Young people

New fire cadets scheme to launch with council funding

6 July 2016by

A new fire cadet scheme for budding young firefighters will launch for the first time in the borough, thanks to funding from Merton Council.

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Careers and training, Children, Education and schools, Safer Merton

Merton Council pays tribute to MP Jo Cox

17 June 2016by

Merton Council has paid tribute to Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed in her constituency on Thursday.

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Children
Photo shows (left to right): Hamid, Skye, Cllr Katy Neep, Beth and Sandra with the Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme plaque, presented to the council at Buckingham Palace earlier this year

Council proud of Merton’s Duke of Edinburgh success

17 June 2016by

Merton Council is to install a special plaque it received at the diamond jubilee Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) award ceremony at Buckingham Palace earlier this year.

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Children, Education and schools, Young people

Children can make a splash as free paddling pools are opened up for the summer

10 June 2016by

Children can make a splash as free paddling pools across the borough are opened up for the summer months.

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Children, Parks and green spaces

Council says: “Siblings want to stay together” this Foster Care Fortnight

17 May 2016by

Merton Council will be out and about this Foster Care Fortnight (16-27 May), visiting the borough’s town centres to talk to people about fostering children and young people in Merton, […]

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Adoption and fostering, Children, Young people

Merton wins prestigious local government award

23 March 2016by

The South London Special Educational Needs (SEN) Commissioning Programme, of which Merton Council is a founder member, has won a prestigious Local Government Chronicle (LGC) award in the efficiency category.

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Awards, Children, Education and schools, Environment

Merton supports national campaign to tackle child abuse

18 March 2016by

Along with a number of UK councils, Merton Council is supporting the DfE’s national Together, we can tackle child abuse campaign.

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Children, Education and schools
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